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Fact Check: Donald Trump Makes False Claims in State of the Union Address
Rep. Ted Lieu challenged President Trump's inflation and tourism claims during the address, citing recent reports showing rising core inflation and declining U.S. tourism.
- During Tuesday's State of the Union, Rep. Ted Lieu publicly fact-checked several of President Donald Trump's claims in real time on the House floor.
- Amid recurring disputed assertions, lawmakers pushed back as Rep. Ted Lieu fact-checked Trump in real time during the State of the Union on Tuesday, highlighting factual errors.
- Citing recent reports, Lieu highlighted that January 2026 inflation rose about 2.4%, Core CPI accelerated, and PCE, the Fed's preferred gauge, climbed to 3%.
- Observers pointed to analyses showing that `We find that nearly 90 percent of the tariffs' economic burden fell on US firms and consumers`, as the Federal Reserve Bank of New York found, after Trump claimed tariffs could replace the income tax.
- Observers contrasted Trump's claim of over $18 trillion in investments with the White House's figure of about $9.6 trillion, citing a significant discrepancy.
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Trump’s SOTU hit with swift real-time fact-check as ‘lies are coming fast and furious’
A top Democrat in the House of Representatives fact-checked President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday in real time. During the speech, Trump claimed that inflation has come down to the lowest point since he became president last year. He also repeated one of his favorite phrases that America is the “hottest country” right now. Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) fact-checked several of Trump’s claims during the speech. “America is not the …
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FACT FOCUS: A look at Trump's false and misleading claims in his State of the Union speech
President Donald Trump has spent the last year boasting of his accomplishments while mocking the record of his predecessor, Joe Biden. But much of this bluster has been based on misinformation. He fell back on that again Tuesday in his…
Fact-checkers catch Trump's 'fantasy' claims in real time
President Donald Trump was fact-checked in real time on Tuesday night when he falsely claimed during his State of the Union address that tariffs could replace the income tax.“I believe that tariffs paid for by foreign countries will, like in the past, substantially replace the modern day system of i...
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