Trump’s lies in 2025

47 fact-checked lies by Donald Trump in 2025, 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.

By topic

Election9
Economy5
Foreign policy5
Courts & investigations4
Trade4
Other4
Health care3
Immigration3
Crime2
Jobs2
Education2
Biographical record1
Coronavirus1
Environment1
Taxes1

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Every lie in 2025

  1. Dec 9, 2025 · Remarks · EconomyThe U.S. has received promises of investments totaling $18 trillion to $22 trillion since January.
  2. Dec 2, 2025 · Social post · Courts & investigationsAny pardon signed with an autopen is now “fully and completely terminated, and is of no legal effect.”
  3. Dec 1, 2025 · Social post · Foreign policyVideo shows “breaking” news that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro “publicly surrendered” to President Donald Trump.
  4. Nov 22, 2025 · Social post · Biographical record“I have just gotten the highest poll numbers of my ‘political career.’”
  5. Nov 12, 2025 · Social post · Trade“My tariffs … are helping to slash the deficit this year by more than 25%.”
  6. Nov 9, 2025 · Social post · Health care“DOGE halts yearly payment of $2.5 million to Barack Obama for ‘royalties linked to Obamacare.’”
  7. Nov 4, 2025 · Social post · ElectionVoting in California is “rigged.”
  8. Oct 17, 2025 · Press conference · Foreign policy“We’ve never had a president that solved one war, not one war.”
  9. Oct 15, 2025 · Press conference · Foreign policyRegarding boat strikes off the coast of Venezuela, “Every boat that we knock out we save 25,000 American lives.”
  10. Oct 5, 2025 · Statement or ad · Other“Portland is burning to the ground.”
  11. Sep 30, 2025 · Speech · Foreign policy“You never heard Biden say” the U.S. has “the strongest military anywhere in the world.”
  12. Sep 27, 2025 · Social post · ElectionOn Jan. 6, 2021, 274 FBI agents were “probably acting as agitators and insurrectionists, but certainly not as ‘law enforcement officials.’”
  13. Sep 22, 2025 · Press conference · Health care“There’s no downside” to avoiding Tylenol or acetaminophen use while pregnant.
  14. Sep 21, 2025 · Press conference · CoronavirusSmall children are given “80 different vaccines.”
  15. Sep 19, 2025 · Remarks · EconomyThe U.S. currently has “no inflation.”
  16. Aug 25, 2025 · Remarks · CrimeIn Washington, D.C., “We always have a murder a week.”
  17. Aug 19, 2025 · Social post · OtherThe Smithsonian Institution includes “nothing about success, nothing about brightness, nothing about the future.”
  18. Aug 18, 2025 · Social post · Election“We are now the only country in the world that uses mail-in voting.”
  19. Aug 18, 2025 · Remarks · ElectionWith voting machines, “They say we’re going to have the results in two weeks. With paper ballots, you have the results that night.”
  20. Aug 11, 2025 · Speech · CrimeWashington, D.C., has 41 homicides per 100,000 people, “No. 1 that we can find anywhere in the world.”
  21. Aug 5, 2025 · Interview · JobsBureau of Labor Statistics employment numbers “were rigged” when the agency revised them “down by almost 900,000 jobs” after the 2024 election.
  22. Jul 26, 2025 · Social post · ElectionDemocrats paid Beyoncé $11 million for an endorsement.
  23. Jul 22, 2025 · Press conference · Courts & investigationsIn 2016, after Donald Trump won the presidency, then-President Barack Obama was “trying to lead a coup” with Trump’s opponent, Hillary Clinton.
  24. Jul 15, 2025 · Remarks · Courts & investigationsThe Jeffrey Epstein files “were made up by Comey. They were made up by Obama. They were made up by Biden.”
  25. Jul 8, 2025 · Remarks · EnvironmentChina doesn’t “have a lot of wind farms. … Very, very few.”
  26. Jun 25, 2025 · Social post · OtherNew York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is a communist.
  27. Jun 5, 2025 · Social post · TaxesIf the “Big, Beautiful” tax and spending bill doesn’t pass, “there will be a 68% tax increase.”
  28. May 25, 2025 · Press conference · EducationHarvard University “refuse(s) to tell us” who its international students are.
  29. May 20, 2025 · Remarks · Health careIn the House bill, “we’re not changing Medicaid,” only cutting “waste, fraud and abuse.”
  30. May 8, 2025 · Interview · Economy“We have now close to $10 trillion” in investments. “We’re talking about essentially two months.”
  31. May 8, 2025 · Social post · OtherThe Digital Equity Act is a handout “based on race,” and “illegal.”
  32. May 8, 2025 · Remarks · TradeDeclining cargo traffic at U.S. ports “means we lose less money. … When you say it’s slowed down, that’s a good thing.”
  33. Apr 29, 2025 · Interview · Immigration“If people come into our country illegally, there’s a different standard” for due process.
  34. Apr 29, 2025 · Interview · ImmigrationKilmar Armando Abrego Garcia “had ‘MS-13’ on his knuckles tattooed. … He had ‘MS’ as clear as you can be. Not ‘interpreted.’”
  35. Apr 22, 2025 · Remarks · Economy“We had a couple of states where gasoline was at $1.98 gallon.”
  36. Apr 9, 2025 · Statement or ad · ElectionThe 2020 election was “rigged” and Chris Krebs, former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency director, “baselessly” dismissed “election malfeasance.”
  37. Apr 9, 2025 · Remarks · TradeIn 2024, “China made $1 trillion off trade with the United States.”
  38. Apr 8, 2025 · Speech · TradeThe U.S. is “taking in almost $2 billion a day in tariffs.”
  39. Mar 17, 2025 · Social post · Courts & investigationsFormer President Joe Biden’s pardons of lawmakers on the committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack “are hereby declared void, vacant, and of no further force or effect,” because “they were done by…
  40. Mar 4, 2025 · Speech · EconomyThe Trump administration identified $1.9 billion in federal dollars going to a “decarbonization of homes” group Stacey Abrams “headed up.”
  41. Feb 18, 2025 · Remarks · Foreign policyVolodymyr Zelenskyy “started” the war in Ukraine with Russia.
  42. Feb 10, 2025 · Interview · EducationThe United States is “last in education out of 40 states … but we’re number one in cost per pupil.”
  43. Feb 6, 2025 · Social post · ElectionCBS News and “60 Minutes” “replaced” former Vice President Kamala Harris’ interview answers “with completely different, and far better, answers, taken from another part of the interview.”
  44. Jan 30, 2025 · Press conference · Jobs“I changed the Obama policy (on hiring air traffic controllers) … And then Biden came in and he changed it.”
  45. Jan 22, 2025 · Interview · ElectionThe U.S. House Select Committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol “deleted and destroyed all of the information that they collected over two years.”
  46. Jan 20, 2025 · Remarks · ImmigrationThe United States is the only country with unrestricted birthright citizenship.
  47. Jan 7, 2025 · Press conference · Election“They’re still counting the (2024 election) vote in some areas.”