Trump’s lies in 2021

51 fact-checked lies by Donald Trump in 2021, newest first. Each one links to the fact-check.

After January 20, 2021 the Washington Post stopped logging every claim. Lies from this year are PolitiFact’s selected checks, so the count is far lower than what was said.

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Election28
Immigration5
Taxes4
Economy3
Health care3
Foreign policy3
Impeachment (Ukraine)2
Trade1
Coronavirus1
Biographical record1

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Every lie in 2021

  1. Dec 8, 2021 · Interview · EconomyGas prices were “$1.86 when I left” the White House.
  2. Sep 25, 2021 · Rally · ElectionSays Biden “didn’t win in Arizona. He lost in Arizona based on the forensic audit.”
  3. Aug 12, 2021 · Statement or ad · Election“A Milwaukee election employee even acknowledged dropping off just the margin of ballots needed for a Biden win at 3 a.m.”
  4. Jul 15, 2021 · Statement or ad · ElectionSays that in the 2020 presidential election in Maricopa County, Ariz., “74,243 mail-in ballots were counted with ‘no clear record of them being sent.'”
  5. Jul 11, 2021 · Interview · Election“There were no guns whatsoever” at the Capitol riot on Jan. 6.
  6. Jul 7, 2021 · Press conference · Election“The person that shot Ashli Babbitt — boom — right through the head — just boom — there was no reason for that.”
  7. Jun 27, 2021 · Statement or ad · Election“Facts have now come out to show conclusively” that the 2020 presidential election wasn’t legitimate.
  8. Jun 26, 2021 · Statement or ad · Election“In 2020 we won (Wisconsin).”
  9. Jun 25, 2021 · Statement or ad · ElectionSays Republican leaders “are working hard to cover up election corruption in Wisconsin.”
  10. Jun 22, 2021 · Statement or ad · ElectionGeorgia didn’t update its voter rolls prior to the 2020 presidential election; “this means we (you!) won the presidential election in Georgia.”
  11. Jun 5, 2021 · Speech · Election“Republican state senators” who started an audit of 2020 election results in Maricopa County are “exposing this fraud.”
  12. May 15, 2021 · Statement or ad · Election“The entire Database of Maricopa County in Arizona has been DELETED!”
  13. Apr 19, 2021 · Interview · Immigration“Human trafficking and drugs” at the Mexico border have “doubled, tripled and quadrupled” since Joe Biden became president.
  14. Feb 28, 2021 · Interview · ElectionSays he requested “10,000 National Guardsmen” for his Jan. 6 rally, but Nancy Pelosi “rejected it.”
  15. Feb 28, 2021 · Speech · ImmigrationSays Joe Biden “has effectively ordered a shutdown of ICE, halting virtually all deportations, everyone, murderers, everybody, no more.”
  16. Jan 20, 2021 · Remarks · Health care“We got it so that we can sadly get rid of people that don't treat our vets properly. We had we didn't have any of those rights before when I came on.”
  17. Jan 20, 2021 · Remarks · Taxes“We also got tax cuts, the largest tax cut and reform in the history of our country, by far.”
  18. Jan 19, 2021 · Video · Taxes“We passed the largest package of tax cuts and reforms in American history.”
  19. Jan 19, 2021 · Video · Trade“We imposed historic and monumental tariffs on China….Billions and billions of dollars were pouring into the U.S.”
  20. Jan 19, 2021 · Video · Economy“We also built the greatest economy in the history of the world…Powered by these policies, we built the greatest economy in the history of the world.”
  21. Jan 19, 2021 · Video · Foreign policy“Perhaps most importantly of all, with nearly three trillion dollars, we fully rebuilt the American military, all made in the USA.”
  22. Jan 14, 2021 · Statement or ad · Foreign policy“It has been a great honor to rebuild our military and support our brave men and women in uniform. $2.5 trillion invested, including in beautiful new equipment—all made in the U.S.A.”
  23. Jan 12, 2021 · Speech · Immigration“Removing any of these [anti-immigration] measures would hamstring our workers, endanger our country, and cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars a year.”
  24. Jan 12, 2021 · Remarks · Immigration“It's been tremendously successful, far beyond what anyone thought. We're stopping, in large numbers, the drugs coming into the country for many, many years and decades.”
  25. Jan 12, 2021 · Speech · Coronavirus“As you probably know, in Tijuana, various parts of Mexico, the COVID -- it's got about 24 names I can call it, from 'COVID' to "China virus." I can call it the 'plague.' I call it the 'China plague.' A lot of…
  26. Jan 6, 2021 · Rally · Economy“We've created the greatest economy in history.”
  27. Jan 6, 2021 · Rally · Taxes“We got you the biggest tax cuts in history, right.”
  28. Jan 6, 2021 · Rally · Election“Think about it. Detroit had more votes than it had voters.”
  29. Jan 6, 2021 · Rally · Election“There were over 205,000 more ballots counted in Pennsylvania. Think of this, you had 205,000 more ballots than you had voters. That means you had two -- Where did they come from? You know where they came from?…
  30. Jan 6, 2021 · Rally · Election“The media is the biggest problem we have as far as I'm concerned, single biggest problem. The fake news and the Big Tech. Big Tech is now coming into their own. We beat them. Four years ago we surprised them. We took…
  31. Jan 6, 2021 · Rally · Election“That [Dominion] equipment should never have been allowed to be used, and I was telling these people don't let him use this stuff.”
  32. Jan 6, 2021 · Rally · Biographical record“Remember, I used to say in the old days, don't go in Iraq, but if you go and keep the oil, we didn't keep the oil.”
  33. Jan 6, 2021 · Rally · Health care“Now we have the right to fire bad people in the V.A. We had 9,000 people that treated our veterans horribly. In primetime, they would not have treated our veterans badly. But they treated our veterans horribly. And we…
  34. Jan 6, 2021 · Rally · Election“In addition, there is the highly troubling matter of Dominion Voting Systems.”
  35. Jan 6, 2021 · Rally · Election“In Fulton County, Republican poll watchers were ejected, in some cases, physically from the room under the false pretense of a pipe burst. Water main burst, everybody leave, which we now know was a total lie. Then…
  36. Jan 6, 2021 · Rally · Impeachment (Ukraine)“How come they go into China and they leave with billions of dollars to manage. 'Have you managed money before?', 'No, I haven't.', 'Oh, that's good. Here's about 3 billion.'”
  37. Jan 6, 2021 · Rally · Impeachment (Ukraine)“How come Joe [Biden] is allowed to give a billion dollars of money to get rid of the prosecutor in Ukraine.”
  38. Jan 4, 2021 · Rally · Health care“[We] will always protect patients with preexisting conditions.”
  39. Jan 4, 2021 · Rally · Foreign policy“You have incredible contractors in Georgia, military contractors, and they got -- any of our money. Spent $2.5 trillion.”
  40. Jan 4, 2021 · Rally · Election“We won Florida and Ohio in record numbers. We won Iowa by 8.2%. Nobody's ever won those three states and lost, never happened before. It's almost impossible unless people do a lot of -- either get very lucky or they…
  41. Jan 4, 2021 · Rally · Election“We were leading at 10:00 in the evening by a lot. In Pennsylvania, there were 205,000 more ballots cast than there were voters... which remains completely unexplained. You have great senators and representatives there…
  42. Jan 4, 2021 · Rally · Election“There is the highly troubling matter of Dominion voting machines....An immediate forensic audit of an appropriate sampling of Dominion's voting machines and related equipment is critical to determine the level of…
  43. Jan 4, 2021 · Rally · Election“There is no way we lost Georgia. There's no way. A rigged -- That was a rigged election but we're still fighting it.”
  44. Jan 4, 2021 · Rally · Immigration“Remember we'll build a wall? We're going to build a wall. And that's right, Mexico is paying for the wall, or if I were here they would be, because we were going to charge them a nice fee right at the entry points.…
  45. Jan 4, 2021 · Rally · Taxes“David [Perdue] was a critical vote in the right to pass the largest package of tax cuts and reforms in American history....the greatest tax cuts in the history of our country,”
  46. Jan 2, 2021 · Leaked call · Election“There were no Republican poll watchers. Actually, there were no Democrat poll watchers, I guess they were them. But there were no Democrats, either, and there was no law enforcement. Late in the morning, early in the…
  47. Jan 2, 2021 · Leaked call · Election“People that went to vote and they were told they can't vote because they've already been voted for. And it’s a very sad thing. They walked out complaining. But the number’s large. … You also have a substantial numbers…
  48. Jan 2, 2021 · Leaked call · Election“In Pennsylvania, they had well over 200,000 more votes than they had people voting.”
  49. Jan 2, 2021 · Leaked call · Election“In Detroit, we had, I think it was, 139 percent of the people voted. That’s not too good.”
  50. Jan 2, 2021 · Leaked call · Election“I won't give Dominion a pass because we found too many bad things.”
  51. Jan 1, 2021 · Social post · Election“All of this without even discussing the millions of fraudulent votes that were cast or altered!”