The Facts: Trump did win the popular vote in the 2024 presidential election, and he did win all seven swing states, but heās conflating two figures. He won the popular vote by receiving 49.8% of the vote to Kamala Harris' 48.3%. He won the electoral college by 86 votes, 312 to Harrisās 226. He did not win all of the counties in the seven swing states, but he surprised many pundits by winning counties in the Detroit, Milwaukee and Philadelphia metro areas.
The Facts: At the end of August, Iranās Central Bank reported inflation at 84%, according to The New York Times. The price of food in the country has skyrocketed, and Iranās currency hit a record low, tumbling to 2.5 million rials to the U.S. dollar. At the end of 2025, the exchange rate was 1.2 million rials to the dollar.
The Facts: Trump was responding to being asked why many thought the war in Iran would be over in four to six weeks. Operation Epic Fury launched Feb. 28. In early March interviews, the President said the action would last four to five weeks.
The Facts: Various reports show about 20 million barrels of oil moving through the Strait of Hormuz daily before the war. On Sept. 26, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said on Fox News that there was a day last week āwhere over 20 million barrels of oil, more than pre-conflict levels, flowed out of the straits. The running average today is almost 13 million barrels a day.ā
The protests began in Tehran after the countryās currency collapsed, and morphed into a widespread anti-regime movement that expanded across the countryāuntil reaching its deadliest peak on Jan 8th and 9th. Iranian authorities responded to the protests by cutting off the internet and embarking on what is now considered the deadliest government crackdown by the Government of Iran since the 1979 Revolution.
The death toll was likely lower than Trump allegesāand the crackdown is believed to have reached its deadliest point earlier this year. Iranās state run media has put the death toll at 3,117, while human rights organizations estimate it to be in the tens of thousands. At the end of January, two senior officials from Iranās Ministry of Health told TIME that as many as 30,000 protesters could have been killed on Jan. 8th and 9th alone.
The Facts: A poll showing a 99% approval rating for Trump among Israelis does not exist, but he has polled well in Israel in the past. A 2026 Pew Research Center survey found ā66% have confidence in Trump, while only a third or fewer have confidence in the other leaders.ā A 2026 survey by the Jewish People Policy Institute found 73% of Israelis think of Trump as a better-than-average U.S. president for Israelās interests, and 49% described him as one of the best U.S. presidents for Israel. However, the poll was sharply divided on party lines, with 92% of the Israeli right calling Trump an above-average president, but only 34% of the Israeli left had a positive view of Trump.
The Facts: There is no U.S. Customs and Border Protection data to back up this 25 million number, and there is a lack of definitive data on unauthorized immigrant numbers. The agency tracks encounters at ports of entry, instances of people being detained for trying to enter illegally or who were seeking legal entry but deemed ineligible. Between the start of the 2021 fiscal year through late 2024, the agency reported 10.8 million of these encounters. Pew Research Center has been publishing its own estimates of unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. for the last two decades and reported in 2025 that there were 14 million unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. in 2023āan all-time high.
The Facts: This is correct. According to the Census Bureauās annual poverty report, the official poverty rate fell to 10.2%āthe lowest on record since the agency began tracking in 1959. However, the bureau also publishes a supplementary poverty measure (SPM), created in 2009, which accounts for government benefits, like food stamps and housing subsidies, and has a more expansive view of poverty that considers whether a household has the resources for basic needsālike food, housing, clothes, and utilities. The SPM was at 13.1% in 2025, several percentage points above its all-time low of 7.7% in 2021.The Census Bureauās report also relies on data from a survey conducted in March 2025ājust three months into Trumpās presidency.
The Facts: The Federal Reserveās official inflation target for the U.S. economy is 2%. Towards the end of Trumpās first term, in Jan. 2020, the inflation rate was 2.5%. By the time his term ended that Dec., it was at 1.4%. Under Joe Biden, inflation reached a peak of 8% in 2022, the highest inflation the country had seen since 1980, when it hit 13.5%. However, by the end of Bidenās term, inflation dropped to 2.9%.
