False Fact-checks on Donald Trump in 2020
Mostly False Fact-checks on Donald Trump in 2020
Donald Trump
stated on January 8, 2020 in a White House address:
"The American military has been completely rebuilt under my administration at a cost of $2.5 trillion."
Donald Trump
stated on February 4, 2020 in his State of the Union:
Last year, "for the first time in 51 years, the cost of prescription drugs actually went down."
Donald Trump
stated on February 4, 2020 in his 2020 State of the Union address:
“In sanctuary cities, local officials order police to release dangerous criminal aliens to prey upon the public instead of handing them over to ICE to be safely removed.”
Donald Trump
stated on February 4, 2020 in his State of the Union address to Congress:
"Our new (health care) plans are up to 60% less expensive and better" than Obamacare.
Donald Trump
stated on February 6, 2020 in a speech:
Says Republicans just won two congressional seats in North Carolina “that were not supposed to be won.”
Donald Trump
stated on March 7, 2020 in a tweet:
Video shows Joe Biden saying “we can only re-elect Donald Trump.”
Donald Trump
stated on March 12, 2020 in a tweet:
Says Joe Biden “was in charge of the H1N1 Swine Flu epidemic which killed thousands of people. The response was one of the worst on record. Our response is one of the best, with fast action of border closings & a 78% Approval Rating, the highest on record. His was lowest!
Donald Trump
stated on March 26, 2020 in a Hannity show interview:
Speaking of his restriction on travel from China, “I had (Joe) Biden calling me xenophobic. … He called me a racist, because of the fact that he felt it was a racist thing to stop people from China coming in.”
Donald Trump
stated on April 6, 2020 in a White House briefing:
The Obama administration left Trump with a “stockpile with a cupboard that was bare.”
Donald Trump
stated on April 7, 2020 in a news conference:
Wisconsin is “run by Democrats right now,” so they should address election social distancing concerns.
Donald Trump
stated on April 20, 2020 in a daily coronavirus press briefing:
“Hundreds and hundreds of labs are ready, willing, and able.”
Donald Trump
stated on July 14, 2020 in a press conference in the Rose Garden:
“Joe Biden wants to end school choice.”
Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2020 in a White House briefing:
“We're setting record job numbers.”
Donald Trump
stated on July 25, 2020 in a tweet:
Under an executive order, “expensive insulin went from big dollars to virtual pennies … especially (for) our seniors.”
Donald Trump
stated on July 29, 2020 in a Tweet:
“New York Mail-In voting is in a disastrous state of condition. Votes from many weeks ago are missing - a total mess. They have no idea what is going on. Rigged Election.”
Donald Trump
stated on August 19, 2020 in a tweet:
Goodyear Tires “announced a BAN ON MAGA HATS…This is what the Radical Left Democrats do.”
Donald Trump
stated on September 7, 2020 in a press conference:
Election officials are “sending 80 million ballots all over the country. Eighty million ballots, non-requested. I call them ‘unsolicited ballots.’”
Donald Trump
stated on September 17, 2020 in a tweet:
Says “some people in the Great State of North Carolina have been sent TWO BALLOTS. RIGGED ELECTION in waiting!”
Donald Trump
stated on September 16, 2020 in a campaign ad:
Says Joe Biden “tried to cut Social Security and Medicare for decades. … Now Biden’s promising your benefits to illegal immigrants.”
Donald Trump
stated on September 29, 2020 in the first 2020 presidential debate:
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden “left me 128 judges to fill. You just don’t do that.”
Donald Trump
stated on September 29, 2020 in Debate:
“I brought back Big Ten football.”
Donald Trump
stated on October 10, 2020 in a campaign ad:
Says Dr. Anthony Fauci said of Trump’s pandemic response, “I can’t imagine that … anybody could be doing more.”
Donald Trump
stated on October 13, 2020 in a speech:
“We’re putting our great coal miners back to work.”
Donald Trump
stated on October 15, 2020 in a town hall on NBC News:
“We saved 2 million people” from dying of COVID-19.
Donald Trump
stated on October 20, 2020 in a rally in Erie, Pa.:
“Phony” ballots “were printed without my name on it.”
Donald Trump
stated on October 22, 2020 in the final presidential debate:
“When I closed (travel from China) he said I should not have closed. ...He said this is a terrible thing, you are a xenophobe, I think he called me racist. Now he says I should have closed it earlier.”
Donald Trump
stated on October 24, 2020 in a campaign rally:
"We have a mayor in D.C. who formed a commission with recommendations. Her recommendation is: Take down the Washington Monument, close up the Lincoln Monument."
Donald Trump
stated on October 27, 2020 in a tweet:
“CAN I CHANGE MY VOTE? ... The answer in most states is YES.”
Donald Trump
stated on October 22, 2020 in the final 2020 presidential debate:
“President Obama would never give them long-term funding, and I did … I saved historically Black colleges and universities.”
Donald Trump
stated on October 28, 2020 in a TV ad:
“Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ government-run health care plan… could lead to hospitals being closed, put Medicare coverage at risk, and give benefits to illegal immigrants.”
Donald Trump
stated on December 2, 2020 in a speech:
“No state in the country verifies United States citizenship as a condition for voting in federal elections.”