Washington, D.C., has 41 homicides per 100,000 people, “No. 1 that we can find anywhere in the world.”
Speaking about Washington, D.C., homicide rates, Trump said it’s "41 per 100,000. No.1 that we can find anywhere in the world."
Trump stretched an outdated homicide rate into an inaccurate blanket statement.
Trump appeared to be referring to a chart that showed the district’s 2023 homicide rate, which was 39.4 per 100,000 people. In 2024, the homicide rate dropped to 27.3 per 100,000 people. The city’s Metropolitan Police Department has reported that homicide rates continue to decrease in 2025.
A list of 2023 homicide rates in cities around the world has Washington, D.C., listed below 49 other cities, three of them capital cities.
“We are now the only country in the world that uses mail-in voting.”
Trump said, "We are now the only Country in the World that uses Mail-In Voting."
Trump didn’t explain his evidence and hours later softened his language when he said he "may be wrong."
In 2024, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance found that 34 countries or territories allow postal voting, or mail-in voting. For example, Australia has had mail-in voting for a century, and all Canadians are eligible to vote by mail.
Stated on August 18, 2025 in remarks at the White House:
With voting machines, "They say we're going to have the results in two weeks. With paper ballots, you have the results that night."
Trump said with voting machines, "They say we're going to have the results in two weeks. With paper ballots, you have the results that night."
Scientific studies and experience with past elections show that both parts of this assertion are incorrect.
Trump is wrong that machine-conducted voting inevitably takes two weeks. And getting rid of machines that tabulate votes and relying solely on humans to count paper ballots would, in most cases, take longer, require more personnel and add expense to the process, particularly in large jurisdictions with large numbers of ballots cast and a variety of races on each ballot.
Stated on August 25, 2025 in remarks to the media:
In Washington, D.C., “We always have a murder a week.”
Trump said Aug. 25, "We always have a murder a week" in Washington, D.C.
That ignores that a two-week stretch earlier in 2025 had no reported homicides.
Criminologists caution that one week of data does not say much about the crime trends. Crime experts generally compare crimes and crime rates over longer periods, such as years.
Stated on September 19, 2025 in an exchange with reporters in the White House:
The U.S. currently has “no inflation.”
Trump said the U.S. currently has "no inflation."
By two measures — the inflation rate and the Federal Reserve’s target for "price stability" — the statement is inaccurate.
The inflation rate is not zero; it’s currently at 2.9% year over year. That’s higher than the Fed’s 2% "price stability" target. of 2%. And the inflation rate has been accelerating rather than easing for the past four months.
Stated on September 21, 2025 in a press gaggle on Air Force One:
Small children are given "80 different vaccines."
On multiple occasions Trump said "little" kids and "little" babies are given "80 different vaccines."
According to the current CDC recommended vaccine schedule, a 10-year-old child could receive up to 12 different vaccine formulations, protecting from 16 different diseases. Those vaccines could be administered in up to 52 separate doses, but almost certainly less than 52 injections because many vaccines are delivered in one shot.
None of those numbers equals 80 different vaccines.
Stated on October 5, 2025 in a statement to the media:
“Portland is burning to the ground.”
Trump said, "Portland is burning to the ground."
Since protests outside of the ICE facility began in June, city and federal officials have arrested about 60 defendants, including at least a few for arson. That does not show an entire city "burning to the ground." These criminal actions are confined to a block or two out of the city’s 145 square miles.
Normal life has continued throughout much of the city in recent months as residents have participated in events such as a marathon, the farmer’s market, a film festival and a naked bike ride.
Stated on February 18, 2025 in remarks to reporters at Mar-a-Lago:
Volodymyr Zelenskyy “started” the war in Ukraine with Russia.
Trump said Zelenskyy "started" the war in Ukraine with Russia.
On Feb. 24, 2022, Russian forces launched an invasion on Ukraine, a country that the night before was at peace. Putin called it a "special military operation" and he premised the attack on false claims about Ukraine. As people were sleeping, Russian troops and tanks rolled into Ukraine and missiles poured down in what U.S. military analysts called the largest military operation in Europe since World War II.
The attack followed weeks of Russian maneuvers that included staging a large-scale military exercise along Russia’s border with Ukraine that the U.S. estimated to include 190,000 Russian troops.
“My tariffs … are helping to slash the deficit this year by more than 25%.”
Trump said his tariffs "are helping to slash the deficit this year by more than 25%."
The federal deficit has not fallen by 25% during Trump’s second term. The fiscal year 2025 deficit was 2.3% smaller than the fiscal 2024 deficit. When considering only the portions of the fiscal 2025 year when Trump was president, the deficit was higher on his watch than during the comparable months in 2024 under Biden.
Trump has proposed using tariff revenue to fund dividends for the American public, which would eliminate any deficit-reducing impact the tariffs could have.
Stated on February 18, 2025 in remarks to reporters at Mar-a-Lago:
Volodymyr Zelenskyy “started” the war in Ukraine with Russia.
Trump said Zelenskyy "started" the war in Ukraine with Russia.
On Feb. 24, 2022, Russian forces launched an invasion on Ukraine, a country that the night before was at peace. Putin called it a "special military operation" and he premised the attack on false claims about Ukraine. As people were sleeping, Russian troops and tanks rolled into Ukraine and missiles poured down in what U.S. military analysts called the largest military operation in Europe since World War II.
The attack followed weeks of Russian maneuvers that included staging a large-scale military exercise along Russia’s border with Ukraine that the U.S. estimated to include 190,000 Russian troops.
Stated on January 24, 2025 in remarks in North Carolina:
"The Biden administration kicked 2,000 displaced North Carolinians out of their temporary housing into freezing 20-degree weather," earlier in January.
Trump said, "The Biden administration kicked 2,000 displaced North Carolinians out of their temporary housing into freezing 20-degree weather," earlier in January.
We received no information from FEMA that 2,000 people were removed in January. FEMA said on the weekend of Jan. 18, about 740 families were notified that they had three weeks to move out of the agency’s transitional sheltering assistance program because they no longer met eligibility criteria.
Trump omitted the context about why they were removed — because they no longer met eligibility requirements — and that the removals are standard procedure that also happened during other disasters during his first administration.
FEMA reviews temporary housing participants’ eligibility every two weeks, and households whose homes are deemed habitable or who can’t be reached lose eligibility.
"All armed services are having among the best recruiting results ever” because of Trump policies, and “it was just a few months ago where the results were exactly the opposite.”
Trump said, "All armed services are having among the best recruiting results ever" because of Trump policies, and "it was just a few months ago where the results were exactly the opposite."
Trump is wrong that the enlistment trend months ago was "exactly the opposite" of a recent upswing. Military recruitment rose during the most recent fiscal year, while Biden was president, and continued during his final months in office.
Record recruitment numbers for January and February are plausible, based on trends from several months. Neither the military nor Trump administration officials provided data.
Survey responses show the largest detractors for joining the military are fear of injury or death, the possibility of post-traumatic stress disorder and relocating away from family — not the DEI and LGBTQ+ friendly policies that Trump and Republicans often cite.
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