Trump’s lies in 2024

63 fact-checked lies by Donald Trump in 2024, 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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Every lie in 2024

1. Oct 31, 2024 · Social post · Health care“I never mentioned” wanting to end the Affordable Care Act.
2. Oct 29, 2024 · Rally · ElectionIn Lancaster, Pa., “We caught them with 2,600 votes. We caught them cold, 2,600 votes. … And every vote was written by the same person.”
3. Oct 27, 2024 · Rally · Crime“As California attorney general, (Kamala Harris) redefined child sex trafficking, assault with a deadly weapon, and rape of an unconscious person as a totally nonviolent crime.”
4. Oct 23, 2024 · Social post · OtherVice President Kamala Harris has been “going so far as to call me Adolf Hitler.”
5. Oct 17, 2024 · Statement or ad · TaxesVice President Kamala Harris “wants struggling seniors to pay more Social Security taxes while she gives Medicare and Social Security to illegals.”
6. Oct 15, 2024 · Rally · TaxesVice President Kamala Harris’ plan “will raise taxes for the typical American family by an estimated $3,000.”
7. Oct 11, 2024 · Social post · Environment“It has just come out that Democrats in Washington and the Democrat Governor’s Office of North Carolina (Roy Cooper) were blocking people and money from coming into North Carolina.”
8. Oct 9, 2024 · Social post · ElectionVice President Kamala Harris’ “60 Minutes” interview may be “a major Campaign Finance Violation.”
9. Oct 7, 2024 · Interview · Foreign policyOf Gaza, “I’ve been there.”
10. Oct 6, 2024 · Rally · Economy“With your Democrat governor, you have some of the highest electricity prices and highest energy costs. It’s just about at the top in Wisconsin.”
11. Oct 4, 2024 · Interview · ImmigrationThe Biden administration stole $1 billion “from FEMA to use it for illegal migrants. … And FEMA is now busted. They don’t have any money.”
12. Sep 30, 2024 · Press conference · EnvironmentGeorgia Gov. Brian Kemp was calling President Joe Biden after Hurricane Helene but “hasn’t been able to get him.”
13. Sep 29, 2024 · Rally · CrimeVice President Kamala Harris “even wants to legalize fentanyl.”
14. Sep 29, 2024 · Rally · CrimeKamala Harris “let in the 13,099 convicted murderers and opposes all efforts to find them and to remove them.”
15. Sep 18, 2024 · Speech · ImmigrationWhen Haitians go to school in Springfield, Ohio, they “take the place of our children in school” and “each one will have a private interpreter.”
16. Sep 13, 2024 · Rally · Foreign policyVice President Kamala Harris is “talking about bringing back the draft.”
17. Sep 10, 2024 · Debate · Immigration“In Springfield (Ohio), they’re eating the dogs, the people that came in, they’re eating the cats. They’re eating, they’re eating the pets of the people that live there.”
18. Aug 30, 2024 · Interview · Education“The transgender thing is incredible… your kid goes to school and comes home a few days later with an operation. The school decides what’s going to happen with your child.”
19. Aug 30, 2024 · Speech · Health care“Right to Try” experimental drug program saved “thousands and thousands of lives.”
20. Aug 28, 2024 · Statement or ad · Immigration“Kamala Harris has promised amnesty for the 10 million illegals she allowed in as border czar, making them eligible for Social Security. Studies warn this will lead to cuts in your Social Security benefits.”
21. Aug 26, 2024 · Interview · OtherVice President Kamala Harris “is a communist. … She is really a Marxist.”
22. Aug 23, 2024 · Speech · Taxes“Kamala cast the tiebreaking vote to hire 87,000 new IRS agents to go after your tip income.”
23. Aug 21, 2024 · Social post · Jobs“The Harris-Biden Administration has been caught fraudulently manipulating Job Statistics.”
24. Aug 15, 2024 · Press conference · CrimeCalifornia law lets you “rob a store as long as it’s not more than $950” and “not get charged.” Kamala Harris “did that.”
25. Aug 11, 2024 · Social post · ElectionPhoto of Kamala Harris’ Aug. 7 rally near Detroit was AI-generated and “there was nobody there.” Attendees pictured “didn’t exist.”
26. Aug 8, 2024 · Press conference · Biographical record“I went down in a helicopter with (Willie Brown). We thought maybe this is the end. We were in a helicopter going to a certain location together and there was an emergency landing.”
27. Aug 8, 2024 · Press conference · Biographical recordSays his Jan. 6, 2021, speech on the White House Ellipse drew the “same number of people,” as the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech.
28. Jul 31, 2024 · Remarks · OtherKamala Harris was “Indian all the way, and then all of a sudden, she made a turn and she went, she became a Black person.”
29. Jul 27, 2024 · Rally · CrimeDuring the 2020 Minnesota riots after George Floyd’s murder, Gov. Tim Walz didn’t call in the National Guard, “so, I sent in the National Guard to save Minneapolis.”
30. Jul 26, 2024 · Speech · Health careKamala Harris “wants to forcibly compel doctors and nurses against their will to give chemical castration drugs to young children.”
31. Jul 24, 2024 · Rally · Immigration“We’re losing 300,000 people a year to fentanyl that comes through our border. We had it down to the lowest number and now it’s worse than it’s ever been.”
32. Jul 24, 2024 · Rally · Health care“Vice President, Kamala Harris cast the tie-breaking vote to cut, as you know, Medicare by $273 billion. She cast a vote to cut Medicare.”
33. Jul 24, 2024 · Rally · ImmigrationKamala Harris “supported abolishing ICE.”
34. Jun 18, 2024 · Remarks · CrimeSays he “saved Kenosha” and the “governor wouldn’t move” on sending the National Guard.
35. Jun 15, 2024 · Remarks · CrimeCrime statistics “no longer include data from 30% of the country including the biggest and most violent cities.”
36. Jun 8, 2024 · Social post · EconomyLower insulin prices were the work of the Trump administration, not “Crooked Joe Biden. He had NOTHING to do with it.”
37. Jun 6, 2024 · Rally · ImmigrationJoe Biden’s immigration order limiting asylum is “pro-child trafficking.”
38. Jun 2, 2024 · Interview · Courts & investigationsSpeaking about Hillary Clinton: “I didn’t say, ‘Lock her up.’ ”
39. Jun 2, 2024 · Interview · TaxesJoe Biden wants “to quadruple your taxes.”
40. May 31, 2024 · Remarks · Crime“Congo, Africa, just released a lot of people, a lot of people from their prisons and jails and brought them into the United States of America.”
41. May 29, 2024 · Remarks · ImmigrationJoe Biden “is letting millions of people from jails, from prisons, from insane asylums, from mental institutions, drug dealers pour in.”
42. May 21, 2024 · Statement or ad · Courts & investigations“Biden’s DOJ was authorized to use DEADLY FORCE” in Mar-a-Lago raid. Biden was “locked and loaded” and “ready to take me out.”
43. May 10, 2024 · Social post · Foreign policy“Biden wants to immediately stop all aid to Israel.”
44. May 2, 2024 · Remarks · Courts & investigations“I’m not allowed to testify” because of a gag order.
45. Apr 16, 2024 · Statement or ad · Courts & investigations“This trial that I have now, that’s a Biden trial.”
46. Apr 8, 2024 · Social post · Health care“All legal scholars, both sides, wanted, and in fact demanded” that Roe v. Wade be overturned.
47. Apr 8, 2024 · Social post · Health careDemocrats support abortion measures that result in the “execution” of babies “after birth.”
48. Apr 2, 2024 · Speech · Immigration“Crime is down in Venezuela by 67% because they’re taking their gangs and their criminals and depositing them very nicely into the United States.”
49. Apr 1, 2024 · Interview · ElectionIn 2020, Trump “did much better” in the Wisconsin election than 2016, and “after the wrongdoing was found, people said, ‘Well, he actually did win.’”
50. Mar 22, 2024 · Social post · Courts & investigationsThe New York civil fraud judgment against Trump and a plan to seize Trump-owned property “is simply a ‘taking.’ Much like what is done in communist countries.”
51. Mar 16, 2024 · Rally · Immigration“Your Social Security will be destroyed by the people coming in. There’s too many of them. It’s not sustainable.”
52. Mar 9, 2024 · Rally · Jobs“In February alone, nearly 1 million jobs held by native-born Americans disappeared.”
53. Mar 9, 2024 · Speech · Immigration“Biden has implemented a formal policy that illegal aliens who intrude into the United States are granted immunity from deportation.”
54. Mar 2, 2024 · Speech · Election“Eighty-two percent of the country understands that (the 2020 election) was a rigged election.”
55. Feb 20, 2024 · Interview · Courts & investigationsDonald Trump’s fine in the New York fraud case “is a form of Navalny, it is a form of communism or fascism.”
56. Feb 16, 2024 · Statement or ad · Courts & investigationsPresident Joe Biden “directed New York AG Witch Hunt” into Donald Trump’s real estate.
57. Feb 8, 2024 · Statement or ad · Courts & investigations“I cooperated far more” than Joe Biden in the classified documents investigations.
58. Jan 23, 2024 · Speech · CoronavirusDemocrats “used COVID to cheat” in the 2020 election.
59. Jan 15, 2024 · Speech · Election“This is the third time we’ve won but this is the biggest win” in Iowa caucus.
60. Jan 11, 2024 · Statement or ad · Economy“Haley’s plan cuts Social Security benefits for 82% of Americans.”
61. Jan 5, 2024 · Speech · Election“That’s why they are allowing these people to come in — people that don’t speak our language — they are signing them up to vote.”
62. Jan 3, 2024 · Statement or ad · ImmigrationNikki Haley “opposed Trump’s border wall” and “Trump’s travel ban.”
63. Jan 2, 2024 · Social post · Election“In actuality, there is no evidence Joe Biden won” the 2020 election, citing a report’s allegations from five battleground states.