# NuseReal
Faked News
CNN's resident fact-checker tears into Donald Trump for repeatedly asking Americans to "remember" things that never actually happened (LINK) — 26 July 2026
— "The president has harbored an irrational hatred of wind turbines ever since the Scottish government approved a wind project off the coast of Aberdeen within sight of his golf course more than a decade ago."
— Last year, he reminded people to "remember" that he was at his golf club in Scotland the day of the Brexit vote and correctly predicted the outcome. In fact, he was there a day after the vote when the results had already come in, Daniel Dale said. The president also has episodes of "fake history" that he has shared repeatedly throughout his terms in office. One is a bogus story about President George Washington keeping two side-by-side desks in his study, one for his private business and one for the presidency. Another is a repeated claim that 38,000 Americans died building the Panama Canal during the early 20th century. In fact, 5,600 people died total building the canal, more than 5,000 of whom were Black workers from the Caribbean who were poorly treated, Dale said.
CNN's resident fact-checker tears into Donald Trump for repeatedly asking Americans to "remember" things that never actually happened (LINK) — 26 July 2026
— "The president has harbored an irrational hatred of wind turbines ever since the Scottish government approved a wind project off the coast of Aberdeen within sight of his golf course more than a decade ago."
— Last year, he reminded people to "remember" that he was at his golf club in Scotland the day of the Brexit vote and correctly predicted the outcome. In fact, he was there a day after the vote when the results had already come in, Daniel Dale said. The president also has episodes of "fake history" that he has shared repeatedly throughout his terms in office. One is a bogus story about President George Washington keeping two side-by-side desks in his study, one for his private business and one for the presidency. Another is a repeated claim that 38,000 Americans died building the Panama Canal during the early 20th century. In fact, 5,600 people died total building the canal, more than 5,000 of whom were Black workers from the Caribbean who were poorly treated, Dale said.
CNN; Trump's false claims at his NATO press conference (LINK) — 8 July 2026
- Trump falsely claimed $19.2 trillion invested in one year, while White House data shows $10.6 trillion in pledges.
- He claimed record-breaking plant construction, but federal data shows US manufacturing construction spending declined during his term, down ~28% from May 2024.
- Trump repeated false claims about winning three elections, Venezuela releasing prisoners, and 25 million migrants under Biden, all of which are factually incorrect.
CNN: Trump's false and unproven claims about the Reflecting Pool (LINK) — 24 June 2026
— There has been no extended period since the pool was refilled in early June when it looked pristine. Algae was visible within days of the refilling, and it kept appearing even after the Trump administration declared that the water had been made "crystal clear".
— Trump said at a Monday event that after a two-year repair project under former President Barack Obama, the pool "never even opened"; he similarly said in a Monday post that the pool was "rarely open due to leaks and 'stench'" under Obama and former President Joe Biden. In reality, the pool reopened in August 2012 and has been open for the vast majority of the days since.
— Trump has also continued to exaggerate Obama's spending on the reflecting pool, saying at the Monday event that the two-year project cost "over $100 million". The contract was actually for about $35 million. The president has also repeatedly exaggerated the length of the reflecting pool: "almost-2,500-foot-long" and "taller than any building in the world, actually." It is 2,028 feet long, according to a page that was on the National Park Service website as of late May. The world's tallest skyscraper, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, is more than 2,700 feet tall.
PassBlue: fact-checking a UN Secretary-General candidates' debate in Geneva (LINK) — 9 June 2026
FactCheck.org: Trump exaggerates the impact of reducing fraud in federal programmes (LINK) — 3 June 2026
— In a May 27 Cabinet meeting, President Donald Trump claimed that a task force headed by Vice President JD Vance, is "finding billions and billions and billions of dollars. And if he does really great we'll have a balanced budget without having to do anything." Later he said, "And I think we have a chance to save Social Security without doing anything to it, by just the numbers of fraudulent people on Social Security — people that are 115 years old, 125 years old, getting payments."
— There shouldn't be any such payments to anyone 115 or 125 years old because, since September 2015, the Social Security database has been set to automatically terminate benefits to individuals listed as 115 or older. And the most recent federal budget deficit was about 240% more than the highest federal estimate of annual spending due to fraud.
Fox News has claimed for months that Iran's military had been destroyed. New reporting says US intelligence agencies have concluded otherwise (LINK) — 18 May 2026
Fact check: Hegseth twice made a false claim to Congress about troops being sent to voting places under Biden — 30 April 2026 (LINK)
Trump touts economic record in primetime address as U.S. unemployment ticks higher (LINK) 17 December 2025
NBC: Fact-checking Trump: economy, wages, immigration and more: some claims were true, some were misleading, and others were false. (LINK) 17 December 2025
Al Jazeera: Fact-checking Trump's Pennsylvania speech and his Politico interview (LINK) 10 December 2025
- Trump did not, in fact, inherit the "worst inflation" in history. The annualized inflation rate was below 3 percent during the six months before Trump took office in his second term.
- He claimed that Ilhan Omar, the Democrat who has served as a Minnesota representative in Congress since 2019, is in the US illegally. Trump also claimed that Somalia has no military, parliament or police. Somalia does have a military, a parliament and a police force. Omar became eligible for citizenship five years after she entered the US, and finally became a citizen in 2000, when she was 17 years old. Trump: "She married her brother in order to get in, right … she married her brother to get in, therefore she's here illegally." There is no verifiable evidence to back up allegations that either Hirsi or Elmi, her previous husbands, is Omar's brother.
- During the Pennsylvania rally, Trump claimed the Democrats want “transgender for every member in your family”. There is certainly no evidence that the Democratic Party believes all families should have a transgender member.
- Trump also said: "Black people love Trump. I got the biggest vote with Black people." Overall, he secured 20 percent of the Black vote in November 2024 — a big rise from the 12 percent he won in 2020. However, this means that his opponent for the presidency, Democrat Kamala Harris, in fact won the majority of the Black vote.
How ProPublica reports the truth in an era of false claims: each drug smuggling boat off the coast of Venezuela could cause 25,000 deaths, and people arressted in immigration raids face only brief inconvenience (LINK) 6 December 2025
— Claim 1: not remotely accurate; the annual estimated death toll from all overdoses last year totaled 80,391. Claim 2: Our separate reporting identified more than 170 citizens who had been detained at raids and protests. More than 20 of these people reported being detained by immigration agents for at least a day during which they were not allowed to call their loved ones or a lawyer. We found about 130 people who were arrested for allegedly assaulting or impeding the work of agents, many of whom were ultimately not charged with any crime or whose cases were quickly dismissed.
AP: There's no proof each strike on alleged drug boats saves 25,000 lives, as Trump claims (LINK) 19 November 2025
DW: Videos of crying Ukrainian soldiers are fake (LINK) 10 November 2025
CNN Fact check: 18 false claims Trump made on ‘60 Minutes’ (LINK) 3 November 2025
Fact-check: Trump misleads about ending 7 wars, US economy, renewable energy in UN speech on 23 September (LINK) 24 September 2025
CNN: Fact check: Debunking the fake photos and wild conspiracy theories swirling around the murder of Charlie Kirk (LINK) 20 September 2025
- The man charged with the murder wasn't a Trump donor or a Republican. A Utah man named Tyler Robinson had contributed to Trump's 2020 presidential campaign. But that was a different Tyler Robinson. Prosecutors' charging documents paraphrased Robinson's mother as having said that "over the last year or so, Robinson had become more political and had started to lean more to the left — becoming more pro-gay and trans-rights oriented.".
- Robinson’s Halloween tracksuit doesn’t mean he was a far-right 'groyper' (White nationalist).
- Some images purporting to show Robinson are fakes or not of him, supposedly wearing political t-shirts — in support of either Trump or his Democratic opponent in the 2024 presidential election, former vice president Kamala Harris.
- Nobody has provided any proof for their suggestions of a broader left-wing conspiracy. Influential far-right Trump ally Laura Loomer speculated that a "trans terror cell with other targets as well" was behind Kirk's murder.
- There is no basis for conspiracy theories about Israeli involvement. Some anti-Israel commentators have promoted false claims that YouTube deleted a video in which Kirk raised critical questions about the Israeli government's handling of the Hamas assault on October 7, 2023. In fact, the video remains online.
- Man in white cap and man with the prosthetic hand weren't involved. The man in the cap is one of Kirk's friends, the man with a prosthetic hand is a Kirk supporter.
Assassination of Charlie Kirk prompts flood of false and misleading claims online (LINK) 14 September 2025
RFK Jr. defends ouster of CDC Director by distorting list of public health achievement: update (LINK) 4 September 2025
The White House says Trump's tariffs have raised $8 trillion in revenue. That's not even close: The customs and excise taxes collected from January 20, when Trump took office, to August 28 amount to about $156 billion, 2% of this figure (LINK) 2 September 2025
Trump declares D.C. a 'crime free zone' despite 442 crimes reported in past week (LINK) 1 September 2025
CNN: Fact check: 10 debunked lies Donald Trump has repeated in the last week alone (LINK) 29 August 2025
DW: Fake news surrounding the Los Angeles protests (LINK) 12 June 2025
COVID vaccines and the risk of Guillain-Barré syndrome: less than the risk of GBS from a COVID infection itself, and the mRNA vaccine decreases that risk (LINK) 8 June 2025
Musk did not suspend or delete Trump's X account: The tech billionaire and the U.S. president insulted each other on their respective social media platforms in June 2025. (LINK) 6 June 2025
Snopes: Trump was recruited by KGB with code name 'Krasnov': no clear evidence: allegations don't line up with official records (LINK) 24 May 2025
DW: Misinformation by Donald Trump Jr and other unproven statements after Biden's cancer diagnosis (LINK) 20 May 2025
"Burial sites" of white farmers, shown by Trump to SA President, not so (LINK) 22 May 2025
— During talks with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in Washington on May 21, 2025, Donald Trump screened a video meant to support unfounded claims of the "persecution" of white farmers. This included aerial footage showing white crosses lining a road filled with a convoy of vehicles. "These are burial sites," Trump said. However, the highway is not flanked by graves. The footage is from a 2020 protest where crosses were erected in a symbolic gesture following the murder of a couple on their farm in Normandien. The latest available imagery, from 2023, some three years after the protest, showed that the crosses were no longer in place.
Trump's 'let them fight' comment unrelated to India, Pakistan clash (LINK) 7 May 2025
Trump: in 2024, "China made $1 trillion off trade with the United States." False. — 11 April 2025 (LINK)
— Chinese exports to the U.S. In 2024, goods China exported to the U.S. amounted to $439 billion. United States' trade deficit in goods with China in 2024 was $295 billion, less than one-third of Trump's $1 trillion total.
BBC: Is the US making $2bn a day from tariffs? BBC Verify cannot find any published figures which show this. The US Treasury Department publishes a daily statement on how much money from customs duties goes to the federal government. Data from 7 April - which includes the impact of some of Trump's earlier tariffs — amounted to $215m (£168m). — 8 April 2025 (LINK)
— It is possible that Trump has based it on forecasts for the year ahead. The US imported $9bn (£7bn) worth of goods per day last year.Some analysts have calculated that the average rate of Trump's tariffs (as of 2 April) is 22%. Applying this to these import figures would get you to $2bn (£1.6bn) a day. But this calculation assumes that the volume of US imports would stay at this level.
Myanmar quake videos are horrifying. Yet fake AI clips have flooded social media — 2 April 2025 (LINK)
Hegseth says leaked Signal group text didn't have 'war plans'. But screenshots show attack details — 26 March 2025 (LINK)
No, China didn't 'cancel' US beef amid tariffs tit-for-tat: China raised tariffs on beef imported from the U.S. in March 2025 after the Trump administration raised tariffs on all imports from China. — 14 March 2025 (LINK)
Trump falsely claimed US spent $350bn on military aid to Ukraine. — 13 March 2025 (LINK)
— While it is possible to arrive at varying totals using different ways to categorize or count the financial figures, none amounts to $350 billion. As of this writing, the United States had allocated nearly $183 billion for the response to Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, according to the U.S. government's inspector general overseeing the situation. That amount includes more than just what the U.S. government directly sent to Ukraine — and only $83 billion had actually been paid out as of December 2024.
Full-time employment increased under Biden, contrary to Rick Scott's claim. — 13 March 2025 (LINK)
Fake transcript of fiery Trump-Zelenskyy exchange in Oval Office goes viral. — 8 March 2025 (LINK)
NPR: DOGE's savings page fixed old mistakes — and added new ones: we found $2bn vs $55bn claimed. — 1 March 2025 (LINK)
— DOGE's savings page launched with a topline claim of $55 billion saved, with "receipts" that accounted for about $16.5 billion in contract cancellations. But an NPR review found the documented savings were grossly overstated, including with an apparent $8 billion typo, the misleading inclusion of procurement methods that act as lines of credit and billions of dollars in contracts that were not actually terminated. By matching DOGE's claims with federal contract data, that NPR analysis found estimated savings of only about $2 billion — a fraction of what the receipts claimed or the higher, unverifiable claim of $55 billion overall.
Trump, Vance and Zelenskyy's tense Oval Office meeting about Ukraine and Russia, fact-checked. — 28 February 2025 (LINK)
Trump and Starmer's White House talks: fact checked. — 27 February 2025 (LINK)
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