President Donald Trump moved at a fierce pace in his first month of returning to the White House. He lied violently too.
With speeches, interviews, exchanges with reporters and posts on social media, the president met his official statement with not only exaggeration but also complete forgery. As he did during his first presidency, Trump made false claims with other elected officials in Washington with unparalleled frequency and diversity.
Here is the list of Trump’s 13 biggest lies since he was launched on January 20th: It was difficult to choose.
A story of $50 million (no, it’s $100 million) in Hamas condoms: Press Director Caroline Leavbit at his first official White House briefing, Trump said, “$50 million to fund Gaza condoms When it announced it had blocked plans to spend it, it quickly became clear that the claims were highly questionable. The Trump administration had no evidence to demonstrate it. But Trump had 50 million the next day Not only did it repeat the dollar numbers, it added an inflammatory claim that condoms are “for Hamas.” Then, a few days after it was revealed, it was pure fiction that the $50 million figure was pure fiction, and he inflated it to “$100 million.”
This was another example of Trump’s expansion. It is the president’s long-standing habit of making his inaccurate narrative more and more inaccurate over time.
Ukraine condemning starting a war with Ukraine: Russia began a war in Ukraine in 2022 when it invaded Ukraine. That’s a clear fact. But on Tuesday, when Trump rejected a complaint about their exclusion from US-Russia negotiations regarding the end of the war for the Ukrainians, he falsely accused Ukraine of starting the war – “You’ve started it There was no. You could have made a deal. “This time it’s a laughable Kremlin-style propaganda from the US president.
(non-)identity of birthright citizenship: Trump provided what might have sounded like a rational rationale for his attempts to remove birthright citizenship. He said the United States is the only country with birthright citizenship.
Except that it’s not true, as CNN and other outlets pointed out when they made the same claims in 2018 with the president on various other occasions. Dozens of countries, including Canada and Mexico, also give automatic citizenship to people born in the soil.
More Reverse Reversal of Jan. 6th Reality: For years, Trump has released a version of the January 6th Capitol Riot. When he was asked in early February why he gave pardons to those who attacked their first responders, he said that the people he forgiven had actually been “assaulted by our government.” He said, “They didn’t assault them.” This claim that “they did not assault” was a brave denial of the obvious truth. The Justice Department said more than 140 officers were assaulted on Jan. 6, and more than 170 people pleaded guilty to such an attack.
The eruption of deceit ce about California’s water policy: more dishonest amid disaster. First, Trump tied the Los Angeles wildfires to California’s decision to use some of the water to protect fish species in the state’s northern part of the state. You’ll hear it. Then, for no apparent reason, after suddenly releasing billions of gallons of water from a Central Valley reservoir, Trump declared that some of this water was heading towards Los Angeles. I’m going to Los Angeles.
The election lies that he refused to die: what can you even say about this at this point? Trump’s victory in a free and fair election in 2024 did not convince him to abandon his endless lies about his defeat in a free and fair election in 2020. More than four years after losing to Joe Biden, he repeated “equipped” nonsense in at least three events on 2025 inauguration day alone, and then repeated many times.
That f-talk about the Olympic boxer – Trump, once a prominent promoter of lies about President Barack Obama’s birthplace, continues to show that he doesn’t lie not only about policy issues but also about individual people I did. This time, he was a man who had two gold medalists “transitioned” in women’s boxing at a Paris match last year, in order to promote his push to ban transgender athletes from the Olympics. I talked about something familiar to him.
It’s wrong. As the International Olympic Committee repeatedly pointed out during the Olympics, neither champion had transitioned when Trump and others made such claims. Both were born as women and have always competed in female events. Even the unreliable boxing bureau, which disqualified women from the 2023 competition, claimed they had transitioned, claiming that the test vaguely had an unfair competitive advantage. There wasn’t.
The President’s Fictional North Neighbor: Before taking office, Trump casually insisted that Canadians “love” his idea that Canada would become the 51st US state. That was the opposite of the truth. This idea is very unpopular with the Canadian masses. Then, after he took office, Trump continued to make things about Canada. At one point, he posted on social media and yelled Canada outlawing that US banks are banning them from doing business there. He added, “Can you believe it?” Undoubtedly some Americans believe it, but that’s wrong.
Blowing up Biden for a program launched under Trump: After a fatal January collision between military helicopters and passenger jets, Trump provides evidence that FAA diversity policies have something to do with the crash Without doing so, he condemned the Biden administration’s diversity initiative at the Federal Aviation Administration. He added to the fictional story about Biden’s push on a desperate last minute evening to hire people with significant disabilities as air traffic controllers.
An obsessive deception about who pays tariffs: When Trump spoke about the tariffs he imposed on Chinese imports in his first presidency, he said that for the US Treasury, how much these tariffs are ” “From China,” he spoke about how much money he generated. When he spoke about the additional tariffs he plans to impose on various other countries during his current presidency, he spoke about the need to “claim them.” He never acknowledged that US importers, not foreign, are actual tariff payers, or post-study research, including research from the federal government’s bipartisan trade committee. His first period of tariffs on Chinese products.
Wild exaggeration of increased autism rates: Trump doesn’t explicitly support it, but continues to flirt with the thoroughly exposed conspiracy theory that childhood vaccines cause autism. The prevalence of autism has been known over the past 20 years. “Twenty years ago, a child had autism in one in 10,000 people, and now it’s a 34th,” Trump wrote. “Oh! Something’s really wrong” Experts say increased autism diagnosis (1 in 36 by age 8 in 2020) improve symptoms recognition and screening practices, US Aside from the fact that it is likely to be related to public statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the known prevalence rate in 2004 was not “one in 10,000,” but in 125 children. It shows that he was alone. That’s a pretty big difference.
China’s (non-)operation of the Panama Canal: Many of Trump’s lies are accompanied by it. However, some of it is planned ahead of time. But some of them are written in his prepared speech. He said in his first speech in January: “More than anything, China runs the Panama Canal. And we didn’t hand it over to China, we gave it to Panama and we’ll get it back.”
If China actually operated the Panama Canal, this would have been a good line. it’s not. Panama may have raised justified questions about Trump’s impact in the region.
He invented Trump’s “Youth Voting.” Trump said accurate things while promoting his victory in the 2024 election, including the fact that he wiped out all seven swing states. But in line with his longstanding practice of exaggerating legitimate achievements, he also continued to sprinkle on the claim that he won the young man’s vote by “36 points,” that he was not even right. In fact, Exguchi’s polls show that he lost his youth vote to then-President Kamala Harris. Even if these polls were off, there is no basis for claims that he won the youth vote by the age of 36.