At the end of 2017, one year into the Trump presidency, the familiar begins to escape us.
What Donald Trump Says
- X posts - No, Arizona election officials aren’t removing ‘50,000 noncitizens from voter rolls’ April 18, 2025Arizona Democrats “needed a lawsuit to force them to remove 50,000 noncitizens from voter rolls.”
- Facebook posts - Liz Cheney didn’t pen a viral open letter to Democrats. It started in a Facebook group. April 18, 2025Former U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney wrote a viral letter to Democrats suggesting steps to take against the Trump administration.
- Byron Donalds - Can voters use Real ID to satisfy SAVE Act voting rules, as Byron Daniels said? Not in 44 states. April 18, 2025Under the SAVE Act, “as long as you have a Real ID … it should be easy for you to register to vote.”
- Legal experts say Donald Trump’s cryptocurrency raises questions about ethics and secrecy April 17, 2025President Donald Trump launched his own cryptocurrency in January, allowing anyone in the world to buy the tokens anonymously. Legal experts say it raises questions about ethics and secrecy.
- Insurrection Act vs. martial law: What power applies to Trump’s April 20 deadline? April 16, 2025Invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807 isn’t the same as martial law, despite social media claims. Trump has not publicly discussed martial law.
- Tim Walz - Is Tim Walz right that most Americans have $1,000 or less in savings? April 16, 2025“Less than half of Americans have $1,000 in savings.”
- What is the bond market, and why is it so important for the economy? April 15, 2025Even more than the stock market, finance experts say, the bond market may have forced President Donald Trump into pausing his country-by-country tariffs. But why? Here are four questions and answers to explain what the bond market is and why it’s so important.
- Fact-checking Nayib Bukele and Trump officials on Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s deportation April 14, 2025At the White House on April 14, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele and several Trump administration officials misleadingly spoke about the case of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a man the U.S. mistakenly deported to El Salvador. We fact-checked their statements.
- X posts - Photo of PA arson suspect Cody Balmer was falsely edited to show anti-Trump sentiment April 14, 2025Cody Balmer, the person charged with setting fire to Pennsylvania governor’s residence, posted a photo that said “F--- Trump.”
- TikTok posts - Rep. Jasmine Crockett is not cashing her grandmother’s Social Security checks. That came from satire April 14, 2025U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett says “she ‘simply forgot' to inform Social Security that her grandmother died in 2012 … She’s been collecting $2,600 a month for 13 years.”
- X posts - Critics of ‘Hands Off’ protests mislead with photos, videos they say are proof of paid protestors April 11, 2025Photos and videos show Washington, D.C., protests against White House adviser Elon Musk are “staged & paid — bussed in, scripted, clocked out.”
- What vaccine skeptics are getting wrong about a new Cleveland Clinic study on the flu vaccine April 11, 2025A Cleveland Clinic study found that a group of vaccinated healthcare workers were at higher risk for getting the flu than their unvaccinated colleagues. Vaccine skeptics said this supported their stance, but left out important context.
- Donald Trump - US trade deficit with China is less than $300 billion, not $1 trillion, as Donald Trump said April 11, 2025In 2024, “China made $1 trillion off trade with the United States.”
- Critics accuse President Donald Trump of insider trading. Experts say that’s a stretch. April 10, 2025A short social media post, followed by a market-moving tariff announcement, led President Donald Trump’s critics to speculate he might have profited from inside information. Experts say it’s doubtful he broke any laws.
- Donald Trump - Donald Trump falsely calls 2020 election ‘rigged’ in memo targeting former cybersecurity leader April 10, 2025The 2020 election was “rigged” and Chris Krebs, former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency director, “baselessly” dismissed “election malfeasance.”
- Donald Trump - Fact-check: Trump said tariffs collections are ‘almost $2 billion a day.’ Trade experts are doubtful April 10, 2025The U.S. is “taking in almost $2 billion a day in tariffs.”
- Can car shoppers avoid tariff sticker shock by buying American brands? It’s not that simple April 10, 2025President Donald Trump and other defenders of his tariffs said car shoppers can buy American cars. But many cars made in the U.S. use imported parts. Some analysts say there is no such thing as a car made with all American parts.
- Misinformation about fentanyl exposure threatens to undermine overdose response April 10, 2025Misinformation about fentanyl exposure in TV dramas, state laws threatens to undermine overdose response
- Brooke Rollins - Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins misleads on trade deficit by cherry picking data, relying on projection April 9, 2025“We had an agriculture export deficit that increased from zero when President Trump left to $49 billion” under former President Joe Biden.
- Are other countries ‘cheating’ the U.S. on trade? April 9, 2025Before President Donald Trump issued a 90-day pause on his April 2 tariffs plan, he described them as a way to combat U.S. trade partners’ “cheating.” But his tariff rate formula was based on trade deficits, not documented “cheating.”
