This delivery driver throws treats to all the dogs on his route to see if they can catch. Spoiler alert: some of them definitely cannot. Still 13/10 for all
President Trump’s speech at the Detroit Economic Club was filled with false claims about the economy and various other topics. Here’s a quick fact check of some of his claims; more details at the link below.
- Trump didn’t win the popular vote “all three times”; he won it in 2024 and lost it (by millions) in 2016 and 2020
- Trump didn’t win Michigan in 2020, as even a GOP-led Michigan investigation confirmed five years ago
- Inflation hasn’t “stopped”; the CPI report this very morning showed it continues
- Overall prices aren’t “down” under Trump, they’re up
- Grocery prices aren’t starting to “go rapidly down”; the CPI report showed December had the biggest month-to-month spike in three years (though there might be some shutdown-related data issues)
- Trump didn’t inherit “the worst inflation” of all time; it hit a 40-year high in June 2022 and had fallen sharply to 3.0% by January 2025
- It’s impossible to reduce drug prices by “thousands of percents,” since a reduction of more than 100% means people would get paid to get their pills
- Trump hasn’t secured “$18 trillion” in investment in the US; this figure is fiction, nearly double the White House website’s own wildly exaggerated “$9.6 trillion” figure
- Growth is robust but nowhere near “the highest growth we’ve ever had”
- China isn’t “one of our biggest taxpayers right now” via tariffs; US importers pay those tariffs
- Trump said gas is “under $2 in many places”; GasBuddy told me today that it’s under $2 at about 465 stations of the 150,000ish stations it tracks nationwide
- Trump hasn’t “ended eight wars”; among other issues, his figure includes two situations that were never wars, one war that never ended, one war that flared back up last month, and one war where some violence has continued
- Trump’s big bill didn’t completely eliminate tax on Social Security for seniors; it created an additional temporary deduction, but many seniors will still pay tax on their benefits
- You can’t balance the federal budget by eliminating fraud, since the deficit is more than triple the highest end of the GAO’s estimated fraud range
- Biden didn’t let in anywhere close to 25 million migrants (big Trump exaggeration) or 11,888 murders (long-debunked misrepresentation of federal data that includes people who entered the US over decades, including Trump’s first term)
- The US didn’t lose anywhere close to 36,000 people during its time building the Panama Canal
- And…though the story was much vaguer than usual this time…no, Trump still didn’t win a Michigan Man of the Year award years before he entered politics
Details: https://t.co/gG42Ov2eJG
Held off on commenting to see if @PaulCalandra would respond. Positively SHOCKED to see that he hasn’t. These unsafe & hazardously high temps in our schools & classrooms absolutely need addressing…& that will take $.
This’ll have to be a central CB priority. #ETFO#OntEd#OnLab
@twooldridge She's phenomenal. Explains everything so everyone can understand. Love her little gasp at seeing Seth Rogan. However, I don't understand why they use someone else at night for the replay?
@zacharymooers I work 2 mins away from the studio. They have ripped down the deck where the outside area was, and there are trucks there every day hauling stuff out.