Fact check: Trump makes false claims about the economy, elections and crime in State of the Union

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Source: CNN

President Donald Trump made numerous false or misleading claims in his State of the Union address on Tuesday night.

Many of them were long-debunked falsehoods familiar from his rallies, interviews and social media posts. These include various lies disparaging the fairness of US elections, his false claim that he ended wars that were never actually wars or never actually ended, and his fictional “$18 trillion” figure for supposed investment in the US over the past year.

The subject on which he was most frequently inaccurate was the economy. Among other things, Trump overstated the performance of the economy during this presidential term to date, overstated the inflation he inherited from the Biden administration, used highly misleading figures when discussing gasoline prices, and wrongly asserted, twice, that foreign countries are paying the tariffs that are actually being paid by US importers.

Here is a fact check of some of Trump’s remarks:

Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/24/politics/fact-check-state-of-the-union

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I missed the speech - or rather I avoided it.

This recap makes me glad I did. More of the same - Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.