Tracking Trump’s Promises at the 100-Day Mark
On the 2024 campaign trail, Donald Trump promised to launch a massive overhaul of the federal government if reelected president, and, he said, change would come fast.
Senior Trump officials adopt their boss’s combative fact-checking tactics on social media
President Donald Trump is no stranger to taking on the so-called fake news directly on social media. But senior officials in his second administration are increasingly adopting their boss’s robust real-time fact-checking tactics.
When Politico reported last week that the White House was considering lifting sanctions on Russian energy assets as part of its talks to end the war in Ukraine, top Trump administration officials sprang into action on X.
In Breakneck 2nd Term, Trump Turns to Falsehoods to Justify His Agenda
President Trump, intent on enacting an expansive agenda, has moved at a dizzying pace in the first 100 days of his term, issuing a barrage of executive actions and seeking to expand the scope of his presidential power.
Underlying those efforts is a nonstop distortion of basic facts as Mr. Trump has sought to reconfigure the global economy, reshape the federal government and restrict immigration.
RFK Jr. Misleads on Autism Prevalence, Causes
In announcing new autism prevalence data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. distorted scientific research to argue that there is an “epidemic” of autism that must be due to an “environmental toxin.”
The massively successful campaign to lie about the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
Politicians always lie, and when those politicians are Democrats, they typically have the media on their side. But rarely have the Democrats had so much success in roping in the news media to misrepresent the facts so blatantly as they did in President Donald Trump’s first term regarding the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
Future students of media and politics ought to study the coverage of TCJA as an extreme case in how partisans, acting together with a friendly media, can cause huge swaths of the public to believe verifiably false things.
Yes, Bernie Sanders and AOC used private plane for part of 'Fighting Oligarchy' tour
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez used a private jet to travel between Bakersfield and Sacramento, California, during their "Fighting Oligarchy tour."
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Consumers, businesses pessimistic about economy under Trump
In the first 100 days of his second term, President Donald Trump has often been his own biggest hype man when it comes to the economy. "In the first four years, we had the greatest economy in the history of our country," Trump (falsely) said April 17 while meeting with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. "I think we're going to do even better this time." At a March 24 Cabinet meeting, he said, "We have numbers, and we have job generation, that I don't think we've ever seen before. See...
Spin, falsehoods propelled Trump's immigration crackdown
In his first 100 days back in office, President Donald Trump invoked archaic immigration laws, questioned judges’ power to rule against him on immigration cases and attempted to end several legal immigration pathways. Trump began laying the groundwork for his immigration plans long before his Jan. 20 inauguration. For years, Trump and his allies have said falsely or without evidence that the U.S. is being invaded by migrants who are driving up crime rates and that foreign countries are sending their prisoners and mentally ill people to the U.S. Several...
Fact Check Team: Supreme Court to review nationwide injunctions on birthright citizenship
The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on May 15 in a case concerning the Trump administration's efforts to end birthright citizenship. However, the justices will not be ruling on the constitutionality of the policy itself. Instead, they will consider whether lower court judges overstepped by issuing nationwide injunctions that blocked the policy from taking effect.
Trump’s False Claims about Gas, Egg Prices
Several times over the last week, President Donald Trump has assured Americans that the prices of eggs and gasoline are down significantly. But he has made false claims about the cost of both products.
“Prices are going down, not going up,” Trump said in Oval Office remarks on April 22, for example. “I see that we had a couple of states where gasoline was at $1.98 a gallon. Nobody thought they’d see that for years maybe.”