10 entries in the ledger
On November 27, 2025, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted a "Happy Thanksgiving" image on social media that appeared to show a festive holiday meal. The photo was quickly identified as a...
On November 19, 2025, the CDC replaced its longstanding webpage stating that vaccines do not cause autism with new language asserting that the claim is "not evidence-based" because, it said, studies have not fully ruled...
In mid-November 2025, President Trump said grocery prices were already "much lower" than during the Biden administration and claimed Thanksgiving meals cost about 25 percent less. Bureau of Labor Statistics data cited by...
President Trump sat for his first '60 Minutes' interview since 2020, airing around November 2, 2025. Fact-checkers at CNN, FactCheck.org and other outlets subsequently identified at least 18 false or misleading...
In October 2025, amid a government shutdown fight, President Trump claimed Democrats wanted to spend $1.5 trillion on healthcare for people in the country illegally. Fact-checkers found the figure conflated unrelated...
Speaking at Marine Corps Base Quantico on September 30, 2025, President Trump claimed that each intercepted Venezuelan drug boat was responsible for roughly 25,000 deaths, a figure he repeated in later weeks as...
In August 2025, President Trump repeatedly told reporters and audiences that his administration had already cut prescription drug prices by as much as 1,400 to 1,500 percent, tying the claim to a planned "most favored...
Following the strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, Trump repeatedly stated that Iran's nuclear program had been "obliterated." Preliminary intelligence assessments and later public reporting described a more qualified...
In a televised Oval Office meeting, Trump confronted South African President Cyril Ramaphosa with videos and printed material that he said proved persecution and genocide against white farmers in South Africa. South...
During his inaugural address and additional remarks on his first day back in office, Trump made a series of statements about inflation, the Panama Canal, disaster response, immigration and the 2020 election that...