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Fact-checking Trump's 2026 State of the Union address on inflation, tax cuts and immigration
PolitiFact and other national fact-checkers identify numerous false or exaggerated claims by President Trump about inflation, gas prices, tariffs, tax cuts, and crime in his 2026 address.
- Trump made claims about falling beef and egg prices, as well as overall grocery inflation being 2.1% over the past year.
- Trump stated gasoline prices were around $2.30 per gallon, but only a few stations nationally had prices below $2.
- While Trump boasted of $9.7 trillion in new investment, an economist cautioned the figure includes pledges that may not materialize.
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der Standard DEOnce again, the US President does not keep the truth that exactly. He is particularly creative about numbers.
In his speech on the state of the nation, US President Donald Trump presented a brilliant balance sheet. However, a fact check shows that his statements do not always correspond to the truth.
By Daniel Dale President Donald Trump made a series of false claims in his State of the Union speech on Tuesday night. Here we compiled a data check on some of the statements that President Trump made: Trump repeated his usual speech with the false claim that he has secured $18 billion in investment in the U.S. since he returned to office: “In 12 months, I secured commitments for more than $18 trillion coming from all over the world.” The figure…
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