August 2025

Fact-Check Summary The post accurately names key officials: Lip-Bu Tan is Intel’s CEO, Howard Lutnick is Secretary of Commerce, and Scott Bessent is Secretary of the Treasury. It is verified that President Trump and Lip-Bu Tan had a scheduled meeting at the White House on August 11, 2025. However, there is no independent confirmation that […]

Fact-Check Summary Donald Trump’s statement “Gold will not be Tariffed” was accurately posted to his Truth Social account on August 11, 2025, in response to speculation and regulatory confusion about possible tariffs on gold imports. Multiple credible sources confirm both the authorship and content of the statement. This post provided crucial clarity to financial markets

Fact-Check Summary The claim that Washington D.C. faces a “dire public safety crisis” directly caused by failures of local leadership is only partially supported by the facts. While D.C. did experience a spike in crime in recent years, recent data from the Metropolitan Police Department shows a significant decline in violent crime in 2025. Assertions

Fact-Check Summary The claim that Washington D.C.’s current murder rate is higher than Bogotá, Colombia’s, is accurate according to recent official data. In 2024, Washington D.C. reported a murder rate of approximately 26.6–27.54 per 100,000 residents, while Bogotá’s rate was 15.1 per 100,000. While the comparison reflects statistical reality, it is important to note varying

Fact-Check Summary Donald Trump’s post claiming that a public safety emergency was declared in the District of Columbia on August 11, 2025 is factually accurate. Multiple major news outlets confirm that President Trump made this declaration, invoked Section 740 of the Home Rule Act, and deployed the National Guard, placing D.C. police under federal control.

Fact-Check Summary The social media post from President Trump claims that Washington D.C. will be “liberated” from crime and disorder, asserts he fixed the southern border with “ZERO ILLEGALS in last 3 months,” and states that crime in D.C. will disappear as a result of his intervention. The reference to liberating D.C. aligns factually with

Fact-Check Summary The statement “LIBERATION DAY IN DC WE ARE TAKING OUR CAPITAL BACK” is partially anchored in fact. Verified statements from Trump on Truth Social do include the sentiment “We want our Capital BACK” and reference aggressive federal intervention in Washington, D.C. However, the phrase “Liberation Day” is not present in any official communication

Fact-Check Summary The Truth Social post degrades Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett and other progressive Democrats by labeling them “low IQ” and “country destroying morons,” and implies they would all fail a cognitive exam that Donald Trump claims to have “aced” at Walter Reed hospital. The factual record confirms that Rep. Crockett earned a BA from Rhodes

Fact-Check Summary The post claims Paul Krugman has been persistently wrong about market doom since 2016, that markets have reached unprecedented highs under Trump, and that Krugman’s predictions kept people out of the “best market in history.” Krugman did make incorrect, dire predictions immediately after Trump’s 2016 win but retracted them days later and has