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factcheck.org
reliable Ruled 2026-10-23.
Lin et al. (2023) news-quality score 0.918 (0.800 or above counts as reliable). PNAS Nexus, doi:10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad286
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The recurring Trump remarks about deserving the Nobel Peace Prize
The recurring claims about gas prices
The recurring talk of a Trump third term
The recurring promise that Mexico will pay for the wall
The recurring claim that it's the last president's fault
- Oct 2026: Blaming Biden again after a hot inflation report: "636 days"
- Dec 2025: Trump: "Eleven months ago, I inherited a mess"
- May 2024: Biden: inflation "was 9% when I came to office"
- Aug 2021: Afghanistan: "I inherited a deal that President Trump negotiated"
- Mar 2021: Biden blames the Trump administration for border capacity at his first press conference
- Mar 2020: Trump blames an Obama-era "decision" for slow COVID-19 testing
- Apr 2017: Trump blames the Khan Sheikhoun chemical attack on Obama's "red line"
The recurring abrupt firings and departures of Trump administration officials
Election-season "ballots found in a ditch" stories
The recurring claim that Somali immigrants are living lavishly on public benefits
The recurring promise of direct payments to Americans funded by ___
The recurring claim that prices are coming down
The recurring claim that mass-shooting victims and witnesses are "crisis actors"
The recurring claim that Iran's nuclear program was "obliterated"
The recurring claim that vaccines cause autism
- Nov 2025: CDC "Autism and Vaccines" page changed
- Sep 2025: White House autism press conference (Tylenol, MMR, hepatitis B)
- Apr 2025: CDC autism prevalence report and Kennedy's "epidemic" news conference
- Jan 2025 – Feb 2025: Confirmation hearings
- Jun 2023: Kennedy on Rogan and the Hotez debate challenge
The recurring claim that the DOJ and FBI have been "weaponized"
The recurring claim that George Soros is paying the protesters
The recurring "welfare queen" claim that recipients are gaming public benefits
The recurring claim that foreign countries pay the tariffs
The recurring claims that wind power is bad, doesn't work, and "doesn't work at night"
The recurring awards and gifts given to, or claimed by, Trump
The recurring claim that undocumented immigrants get free health care
The recurring claim that the jobs numbers are rigged
- Aug 2025: "RIGGED" July jobs report and the firing of BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer
- Aug 2024: The 818,000-job preliminary revision
- Mar 2017: White House: jobs numbers "may have been phony in the past, but it's very real now"
- Feb 2016: Trump calls the unemployment rate "phony numbers" in his New Hampshire primary victory speech
The recurring claim that illegal voting decided an election
- Aug 2025 – ongoing: Attacks on mail voting and federal demands for voter rolls
- Jan 2019 – Feb 2019: Texas "95,000 noncitizens" on voter rolls
- Jan 2017 – Feb 2017: "3 to 5 million illegal votes" and the New Hampshire "busing" claim
- Nov 2016 – Dec 2016: Millions of people who voted illegally
- Oct 2016: "Rigged election" claims before Election Day