TRUMP: “The Tomahawk missile that destroyed a girls' school in Iran could have been anyone's. A Tomahawk is very generic."
RTX manufactures Tomahawk missiles in Phoenix and the U.S. only sells them to the UK, Australia, Japan, and the Netherlands.
Trump is straight-up lying.
President Trump’s speech to the UN was one of those “where do you even start” addresses from a fact-check perspective. Here’s a non-comprehensive look at some of his claims:
Inflation hasn't been "defeated" by Trump; it's been rising since the spring and is now, at 2.9%, just shy of the 3.0% from when he returned to office in January, when he says he inherited an “economic calamity.”
US electricity bills aren’t “coming way down”; they’re spiking, rising at double the rate of overall inflation. Grocery prices aren't "down” either; they're up during this presidency and they jumped last month at the fastest pace since 2022.
Trump didn't end a “raging” war between Egypt and Ethiopia because the two countries were not in a war at all; they’re in an argument over a dam that is ongoing. He’s previously claimed he stopped Serbia and Kosovo from starting a new war, not that he resolved an existing war, which makes more sense because they weren’t at war under Trump, either. And the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo hasn’t ended despite the Trump administration-brokered June peace deal, which, critically, didn’t involve the rebel coalition doing the fighting.
Trump’s current poll numbers aren’t close to his highest ever. Trump’s “$17 trillion” investment figure is $8 trillion higher than the figure his own press secretary used *yesterday.* President Biden didn’t let in 25 million migrants. Biden didn’t lose 300,000 kids.
Global warming isn’t a “hoax.” Scientists haven’t ceased using the phrase “global warming.” Coal isn’t “clean.” The US didn’t have to pay “$1 trillion” under the Paris climate accord. That the wind sometimes doesn’t blow doesn’t make wind power useless; batteries exist, and wind is used as part of a mix of power sources. China doesn’t “barely” use wind energy; in fact it’s by far the world’s leading user of wind power, and it’s rapidly building more domestic capacity.
More here: https://t.co/tOuKaB9jXA
Long Beach police are investigating after a man was seen on video lifting a dog off the ground by its leash and slamming it into the ground.
PETA also released a statement offering a reward of up to $5,000 for anyone with information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the man. https://t.co/XG3p0rftgE