False Fact-checks on Donald Trump in 2020

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False Fact-checks on Donald Trump in 2020



Mostly False Fact-checks on Donald Trump in 2020


Donald Trump
stated on January 8, 2020 in a White House address:
"The American military has been completely rebuilt under my administration at a cost of $2.5 trillion."

Donald Trump
stated on February 4, 2020 in his State of the Union:
Last year, "for the first time in 51 years, the cost of prescription drugs actually went down."

Donald Trump
stated on February 4, 2020 in his 2020 State of the Union address:
“In sanctuary cities, local officials order police to release dangerous criminal aliens to prey upon the public instead of handing them over to ICE to be safely removed.”

Donald Trump
stated on February 4, 2020 in his State of the Union address to Congress:
"Our new (health care) plans are up to 60% less expensive and better" than Obamacare.

Donald Trump
stated on February 6, 2020 in a speech:
Says Republicans just won two congressional seats in North Carolina “that were not supposed to be won.”

Donald Trump
stated on March 7, 2020 in a tweet:
Video shows Joe Biden saying “we can only re-elect Donald Trump.”

Donald Trump
stated on March 12, 2020 in a tweet:
Says Joe Biden “was in charge of the H1N1 Swine Flu epidemic which killed thousands of people. The response was one of the worst on record. Our response is one of the best, with fast action of border closings & a 78% Approval Rating, the highest on record. His was lowest!

Donald Trump
stated on March 26, 2020 in a Hannity show interview:
Speaking of his restriction on travel from China, “I had (Joe) Biden calling me xenophobic. … He called me a racist, because of the fact that he felt it was a racist thing to stop people from China coming in.”

Donald Trump
stated on April 6, 2020 in a White House briefing:
The Obama administration left Trump with a “stockpile with a cupboard that was bare.”

Donald Trump
stated on April 7, 2020 in a news conference:
Wisconsin is “run by Democrats right now,” so they should address election social distancing concerns.

Donald Trump
stated on April 20, 2020 in a daily coronavirus press briefing:
“Hundreds and hundreds of labs are ready, willing, and able.”

Donald Trump
stated on July 14, 2020 in a press conference in the Rose Garden:
“Joe Biden wants to end school choice.”

Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2020 in a White House briefing:
“We're setting record job numbers.”

Donald Trump
stated on July 25, 2020 in a tweet:
Under an executive order, “expensive insulin went from big dollars to virtual pennies … especially (for) our seniors.”

Donald Trump
stated on July 29, 2020 in a Tweet:
“New York Mail-In voting is in a disastrous state of condition. Votes from many weeks ago are missing - a total mess. They have no idea what is going on. Rigged Election.”

Donald Trump
stated on August 19, 2020 in a tweet:
Goodyear Tires “announced a BAN ON MAGA HATS…This is what the Radical Left Democrats do.”

Donald Trump
stated on September 7, 2020 in a press conference:
Election officials are “sending 80 million ballots all over the country. Eighty million ballots, non-requested. I call them ‘unsolicited ballots.’”

Donald Trump
stated on September 17, 2020 in a tweet:
Says “some people in the Great State of North Carolina have been sent TWO BALLOTS. RIGGED ELECTION in waiting!”

Donald Trump
stated on September 16, 2020 in a campaign ad:
Says Joe Biden “tried to cut Social Security and Medicare for decades. … Now Biden’s promising your benefits to illegal immigrants.”

Donald Trump
stated on September 29, 2020 in the first 2020 presidential debate:
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden “left me 128 judges to fill. You just don’t do that.”

Donald Trump
stated on September 29, 2020 in Debate:
“I brought back Big Ten football.”

Donald Trump
stated on October 10, 2020 in a campaign ad:
Says Dr. Anthony Fauci said of Trump’s pandemic response, “I can’t imagine that … anybody could be doing more.”

Donald Trump
stated on October 13, 2020 in a speech:
“We’re putting our great coal miners back to work.”

Donald Trump
stated on October 15, 2020 in a town hall on NBC News:
“We saved 2 million people” from dying of COVID-19.

Donald Trump
stated on October 20, 2020 in a rally in Erie, Pa.:
“Phony” ballots “were printed without my name on it.”

Donald Trump
stated on October 22, 2020 in the final presidential debate:
“When I closed (travel from China) he said I should not have closed. ...He said this is a terrible thing, you are a xenophobe, I think he called me racist. Now he says I should have closed it earlier.”

Donald Trump
stated on October 24, 2020 in a campaign rally:
"We have a mayor in D.C. who formed a commission with recommendations. Her recommendation is: Take down the Washington Monument, close up the Lincoln Monument."

Donald Trump
stated on October 27, 2020 in a tweet:
“CAN I CHANGE MY VOTE? ... The answer in most states is YES.”

Donald Trump
stated on October 22, 2020 in the final 2020 presidential debate:
“President Obama would never give them long-term funding, and I did … I saved historically Black colleges and universities.”

Donald Trump
stated on October 28, 2020 in a TV ad:
“Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ government-run health care plan… could lead to hospitals being closed, put Medicare coverage at risk, and give benefits to illegal immigrants.”

Donald Trump
stated on December 2, 2020 in a speech:
“No state in the country verifies United States citizenship as a condition for voting in federal elections.”

False Fact-checks on Donald Trump in 2020

Donald Trump
stated on January 27, 2020 in a tweet:
"The Democrat controlled House never even asked John Bolton to testify."

Donald Trump
stated on February 4, 2020:
"Years of economic decay are over" because Trump "reversed the failed economic policies of the previous administration."

Donald Trump
stated on January 30, 2020 in a tweet:
Says the USMCA is the “biggest trade deal ever made.”

Donald Trump
stated on February 29, 2020 in a speech at CPAC:
Says the media cut out his request of Russian hackers to find Hillary Clinton’s emails “right at the end so that you don’t see the laughter, the joke.”

Donald Trump
stated on March 4, 2020 in a meeting at the White House:
“The Obama administration made a decision on testing that turned out to be very detrimental to what we’re doing” on the coronavirus.

Donald Trump
stated on March 4, 2020 in an interview:
The Obama administration "didn't do anything about” swine flu.

Donald Trump
stated on March 11, 2020 in a White House speech:
The health insurance industry has “agreed to waive all co-payments for coronavirus treatments.”

Donald Trump
stated on March 17, 2020 in a White House press conference:
The WHO coronavirus test “was a bad test.”

Donald Trump
stated on March 24, 2020 in a Fox News town hall:
Says N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo “rejected buying recommended 16,000 ventilators in 2015 for the pandemic, for a pandemic, established death panels and lotteries instead. So, he had a chance to buy, in 2015, 16,000 ventilators at a very low price, and he turned it down.”

Donald Trump
stated on March 24, 2020 in Fox News town hall:
"We've done more tests in eight days than South Korea has done in eight weeks."

Donald Trump
stated on April 7, 2020 in a press briefing:
With voting by mail, “you get thousands and thousands of people sitting in somebody's living room, signing ballots all over the place.”

Donald Trump
stated on April 13, 2020 in a tweet:
"It is the decision of the President," not governors, to "open up the states."

Donald Trump
stated on April 16, 2020 in a tweet:
Says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi deleted a video of her telling people to go to Chinatown.

Donald Trump
stated on May 3, 2020 in a Fox News virtual town hall:
Says Joe Biden has “written a letter of apology” for calling Trump’s travel restrictions from China “xenophobic.”

Donald Trump
stated on May 5, 2020 in an interview on ABC:
Models projecting COVID-19 deaths “are talking about without mitigation.”

Donald Trump
stated on May 11, 2020 in comments in the Rose Garden:
“Germany and the United States are the two best in deaths per 100,000 people, which, frankly, to me, that's perhaps the most important number there is.”

Donald Trump
stated on May 19, 2020 in remarks to reporters at the Capitol:
“If you look at the one (hydroxychloroquine) survey, the only bad survey, they were giving it to people that were in very bad shape. They were very old. Almost dead.”

Donald Trump
stated on June 7, 2020 in a tweet:
Says Joe Biden wants to "defund the police."

Donald Trump
stated on June 9, 2020 in a tweet:
"Buffalo protester shoved by Police could be an ANTIFA provocateur. 75 year old Martin Gugino was pushed away after appearing to scan police communications in order to black out the equipment ... Was aiming scanner. Could be a set up?"

Donald Trump
stated on June 16, 2020 in a speech:
“President Obama and Vice President Biden never even tried to fix this (police reforms) during their eight-year period.”

Donald Trump
stated on June 20, 2020 in a campaign rally:
“Joe Biden and the Democrats want to prosecute Americans for going to church, but not for burning a church.”

Donald Trump
stated on June 23, 2020 in a tweet:
COVID-19 cases are “up only because of our big number testing.”

Donald Trump
stated on July 4, 2020 in a Fourth of July speech:
Says 99% of COVID-19 cases “are totally harmless.”

Donald Trump
stated on July 14, 2020 in a White House speech:
Under Joe Biden’s policy, immigrants in the country illegally “get welfare benefits. United States citizens don't get what they're looking to give illegal immigrants.”

Donald Trump
stated on July 14, 2020 in White House Rose Garden:
Says Joe Biden plans to “mandate net-zero carbon emissions for homes, offices and all new buildings by 2030. That basically means no windows, no nothing.”

Donald Trump
stated on July 19, 2020 in an interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace:
“We have one of the lowest mortality rates in the world” from COVID-19.

Donald Trump
stated on July 30, 2020 in a press conference:
Absentee voting is different from mail-in voting and has more protections against fraud.

Donald Trump
stated on July 20, 2020 in Campaign ad:
Says “Joe Biden is absolutely on board with defunding the police.”

Donald Trump
stated on August 5, 2020 in a Fox and Friends interview:
Children are “almost immune from this disease.”

Donald Trump
stated on August 8, 2020 in press briefing in Bedminster, N.J.:
“The Democrats don’t want to do anything having to do with protecting people from eviction.”

Donald Trump
stated on August 17, 2020 in a campaign rally speech in Wisconsin:
"Our (COVID-19) numbers are better than almost all countries."

Donald Trump
stated on August 18, 2020 in a tweet:
“In California, Democrats have intentionally implemented rolling blackouts.”

Donald Trump
stated on August 17, 2020 in a speech:
The coronavirus has seen a “big surge in New Zealand. It's terrible. We don't want that."

Donald Trump
stated on August 19, 2020 in a tweet:
Says President Barack Obama “spied on my campaign, and got caught!”

Donald Trump
stated on August 27, 2020 in a speech at the RNC:
Says Joe Biden “is even talking about taking the wall down.”

Donald Trump
stated on August 20, 2020 in a speech:
“Cuomo ended cash bail ... and now the crime rate has gone through the roof.”

Donald Trump
stated on August 31, 2020 in Media briefing:
Says video shows Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old charged with killing two protesters in Kenosha, "was trying to get away from them" ... "fell, and then they violently attacked him."

Donald Trump
stated on August 31, 2020 in a press conference:
“The entire city (of Portland) is ablaze all the time.”

Donald Trump
stated on September 1, 2020 in News release:
“Biden failed to condemn far-left violent groups like Antifa, instead faulting only the brave men and women of law enforcement.”

Donald Trump
stated on September 10, 2020 in a speech at a rally in Michigan:
"After the last administration nearly killed the US auto industry, I saved the U.S. auto industry ... We brought you a lot of car plants… (and Japan) “announced five car companies are coming to Michigan.”

Donald Trump
stated on September 22, 2020 in a speech:
Says Joe Biden's plan for net-zero emissions "would instantly shut down all fracking and all mining immediately in Pennsylvania."

Donald Trump
stated on September 17, 2020 in Speech:
Says under U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal proposal, “Cows are out.”

Donald Trump
stated on September 29, 2020 in First presidential debate:
"You said you went to Delaware State but you forgot the name of your college."

Donald Trump
stated on September 29, 2020 in the first 2020 presidential debate:
Says Joe Biden “had 308,000 military people dying because you couldn’t provide them proper healthcare in the military.”

Donald Trump
stated on September 29, 2020 in the first presidential debate:
In manufacturing, "I brought back 700,000 jobs. (Obama and Biden) brought back nothing."

Donald Trump
stated on September 29, 2020 in the first presidential debate:
Before the coronavirus pandemic, the United States had “the greatest economy in the history of our country.”

Donald Trump
stated on September 29, 2020 in a presidential debate:
Poll watchers in Philadelphia “were thrown out.”

Donald Trump
stated on October 6, 2020 in a tweet:
“Many people every year, sometimes over 100,000, and despite the vaccine, die from the flu … we are learning to live with Covid, in most populations far less lethal."

Donald Trump
stated on September 29, 2020 in a debate:
Says ballots in Wisconsin “are being dumped in rivers” or creeks.

Donald Trump
stated on October 8, 2020 in an interview with Fox News:
The Commission on Presidential Debates wrote a letter after the 2016 presidential debates apologizing to Donald Trump.

Donald Trump
stated on October 12, 2020 in a campaign ad:
"Biden's plan is a 14% tax hike on middle class families."

Donald Trump
stated on September 30, 2020 in a rally:
Says Joe Biden is a socialist.

Donald Trump
stated on October 12, 2020 in a tweet.:
“The World Health Organization just admitted that I was right. Lockdowns are killing countries all over the world. The cure cannot be worse than the problem itself.”

Donald Trump
stated on October 15, 2020 in an NBC town hall in Miami:
Changes to DACA during his administration are "because of the pandemic."

Donald Trump
stated on October 14, 2020 in a discussion with business leaders:
Speaking of the federal debt before the coronavirus pandemic, “we were starting to get that number down.”

Donald Trump
stated on October 21, 2020 in an ad:
Says Joe Biden repeatedly told Americans he's going to raise their taxes.

Donald Trump
stated on October 20, 2020 in a rally:
Pennsylvania “never opened.”

Donald Trump
stated on October 22, 2020 in a presidential debate:
"We are rounding the turn (on coronavirus). We are rounding the corner."

Donald Trump
stated on October 17, 2020 in an interview:
Foxconn hasn't hit job targets on its massive Wisconsin factory because "No. 1, you had a pandemic."

Donald Trump
stated on October 22, 2020 in a debate:
Michigan has been “like a prison” during the coronavirus.

Donald Trump
stated on October 24, 2020 in Speech:
U.S. is “really not doing (COVID-19) reporting right” because deaths are being improperly counted and hospitals have an “incentive” to pad stats.

Donald Trump
stated on October 27, 2020 in a tweet by Trump War Room:
Says Joe Biden said “Why am I doing this? Why? What is my real aim?”

Donald Trump
stated on October 26, 2020 in a rally:
“Joe Biden confirmed his plan to abolish the entire U.S. oil industry.”

Donald Trump
stated on October 15, 2020 in several speeches:
Says North Carolina just landed an auto plant.

Donald Trump
stated on October 25, 2020 in a rally:
“In Nevada, they want to have a thing where you don’t have to have any verification of the signature” on ballots.

Donald Trump
stated on October 26, 2020 in a YouTube video:
“When asked about court-packing, Biden's staff immediately escorts the camera out.”

Donald Trump
stated on October 30, 2020 in a campaign rally in Waterford, Mich.:
“Our doctors get more money if somebody dies from COVID. … So what they do is they say, ‘I'm sorry, but, you know, everybody dies of COVID.’"

Donald Trump
stated on November 1, 2020 in a tweet:
“Joe Biden called Black youth super predators.”

Donald Trump
stated on November 4, 2020 in a tweet:
“Last night I was leading, often solidly, in many key States, in almost all instances Democrat run & controlled. Then, one by one, they started to magically disappear as surprise ballot dumps were counted.”

Donald Trump
stated on November 11, 2020 in a tweet:
Video shows California election workers "cheating" by collecting ballots from drop box on Nov. 4.

Donald Trump
stated on November 18, 2020 in a tweet:
“Michigan just refused to certify the election results!”

Donald Trump
stated on November 16, 2020 in a tweet:
"Big victory moments ago in the State of Nevada. The all Democrat County Commissioner race, on same ballot as President, just thrown out because of large scale voter discrepancy."

Donald Trump
stated on December 2, 2020 in a speech:
Residents the Wisconsin Election Commission suspected of moving are “illegal voters.”

Donald Trump
stated on December 8, 2020 in comments made during a White House Operation Warp Speed vaccine summit:
The percentage of Americans with natural immunity from getting COVID-19 is “a very powerful vaccine in itself.”

Donald Trump
stated on December 15, 2020 in a tweet:
“68% error rate in Michigan Voting Machines. Should be, by law, a tiny percentage of one percent.”

Pants On Fire Fact-checks on Donald Trump in 2020

Donald Trump
stated on January 13, 2020 in a tweet.:
"I was the person who saved Pre-Existing Conditions in your healthcare."

Donald Trump
stated on February 7, 2020 in a comment to reporters:
"I thought it was a terrible thing when (Nancy Pelosi) ripped up the speech. First of all, it's an official document. You're not allowed. It's illegal what she did. She broke the law."

Donald Trump
stated on March 6, 2020 in remarks to reporters:
“Anybody that wants a test (for the coronavirus) can get a test.”

Donald Trump
stated on March 17, 2020 in a White House news conference:
“I've always known this is a real, this is a pandemic. I've felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.”

Donald Trump
stated on March 18, 2020 in comments made during a White House media briefing:
The coronavirus "snuck up on us,” adding that it is “a very unforeseen thing.”

Donald Trump
stated on March 29, 2020 in a press conference:
“I didn’t say that” some of the medical equipment that governors are requesting, they don't actually need.

Donald Trump
stated on March 30, 2020 in an interview on "Fox and Friends":
“We inherited a broken test” for COVID-19.

Donald Trump
stated on April 4, 2020 in a Coronavirus Task Force press briefing:
Says fired inspector general Michael Atkinson brought a “terrible, inaccurate whistleblower report” to Congress.

Donald Trump
stated on April 1, 2020 in in a White House briefing:
“Now, they’re doing tests on airlines — very strong tests — for getting on, getting off. They’re doing tests on trains — getting on, getting off.”

Donald Trump
stated on April 7, 2020 in a news conference:
“As soon as I endorsed (Supreme Court Justice Daniel Kelly), the Wisconsin Democrats said, let’s move the election to two months later.”

Donald Trump
stated on April 13, 2020 in in a White House briefing:
Says as president he has “total” authority to re-open states amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Donald Trump
stated on April 27, 2020 in comments made during a White House briefing:
“We’ve tested more than every country combined.”

Donald Trump
stated on May 20, 2020 in a tweet:
“Rogue” Michigan official sent absentee ballots to 7.7 million people “illegally and without authorization” ahead of the primaries and general election.

Donald Trump
stated on May 26, 2020 in a tweet:
There are “many unanswered and obvious questions” about the 2001 death of a staff member of Joe Scarborough.

Donald Trump
stated on May 26, 2020 in a tweet:
California Gov. Gavin Newsom “is sending Ballots to millions of people, anyone living in the state, no matter who they are or how they got there, will get one" and the election is "Rigged."

Donald Trump
stated on May 25, 2020 in a tweet:
“[U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb] said he would NOT vote for [Nancy Pelosi] for Speaker, and did.”

Donald Trump
stated on May 26, 2020 in a tweet:
“Twitter is completely stifling FREE SPEECH” by adding a fact-check label to Trump’s tweet.

Donald Trump
stated on May 30, 2020 in a tweet:
During protests outside the White House, Mayor Muriel Bowser "wouldn't let the D.C. Police get involved."

Donald Trump
stated on June 3, 2020 in a tweet:
Says he’s the one who gave the nickname “Mad Dog” to former Defense Secretary James Mattis.

Donald Trump
stated on June 15, 2020 in remarks during a roundtable discussion:
“If we stopped testing right now, we'd have very few cases, if any.”

Donald Trump
stated on June 17, 2020 in an interview with the Wall Street Journal:
Says before he planned a rally on June 19 “nobody had ever heard of” Juneteenth.

Donald Trump
stated on June 18, 2020 in a Tweet:
CNN aired a video of a toddler running away from another toddler with the headlines “Terrified toddler runs from racist baby” and “Racist baby probably voted for Trump.”

Donald Trump
stated on July 14, 2020 in remarks in the White House Rose Garden:
A Joe Biden-Bernie Sanders “unity” policy document shows “they want to abolish our police departments. They want to abolish our prisons, I guess.”

Donald Trump
stated on August 20, 2020 in comments in Scranton, Pa.:
“So this is just a way they’re trying to steal the election, and everybody knows that. Because the only way they’re going to win is by a rigged election.”

Donald Trump
stated on August 20, 2020 in a rally:
Says Joe Biden “abandoned Scranton.”

Donald Trump
stated on August 31, 2020 in a tweet:
“If I didn’t INSIST on having the National Guard activate and go into Kenosha, Wisconsin, there would be no Kenosha right now.”

Donald Trump
stated on September 1, 2020 in a Fox News interview:
“Only 6% of the people actually died from COVID.” The others “died from other reasons.”

Donald Trump
stated on September 3, 2020 in a tweet:
"I never called John (McCain) a loser."

Donald Trump
stated on September 1, 2020 in a television interview:
“There was tremendous cheating in New York”

Donald Trump
stated on September 10, 2020 in a speech in Michigan:
Says Joe Biden “will destroy your protections for pre-existing conditions.”

Donald Trump
stated on September 16, 2020 in a pair of tweets:
Says Joe Biden played N.W.A.’s “F--- Tha Police” during an event in Florida.

Donald Trump
stated on October 1, 2020 in a tweet from @trumpWarRoom:
"Last week Joe Biden flashed the ‘white power’ sign. President Trump condemned white supremacists yesterday. Why hasn't Joe Biden?”

Donald Trump
stated on October 7, 2020 in a tweet:
"Dems want to shut your churches down, permanently. Hope you see what is happening."

Donald Trump
stated on October 22, 2020 in comments during the last presidential debate:
“They have 180 million people, families under what he wants to do, which will basically be socialized medicine — you won’t even have a choice — they want to terminate 180 million plans.”

Donald Trump
stated on October 27, 2020 in remarks to reporters:
Counting ballots for weeks after Election Day “is totally inappropriate, and I don't believe that's by our laws."

Donald Trump
stated on November 1, 2020 in a campaign rally:
Says his supporters were “protecting” Joe Biden’s campaign bus in Texas.

Donald Trump
stated on November 4, 2020 in a speech at the White House:
“We already have won” the election.

Donald Trump
stated on November 5, 2020 in a White House speech:
“If you count the legal votes, I easily win. If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us.”

Donald Trump
stated on November 12, 2020 in a tweet:
Dominion Voting Systems “deleted 2.7 million Trump votes nationwide.”

Donald Trump
stated on November 11, 2020 in a tweet:
“Pennsylvania and Michigan didn’t allow our poll watchers and/or vote observers to watch or observe.”

Donald Trump
stated on November 17, 2020 in a fundraising email:
Says Georgia’s secretary of state won’t let the people recounting ballots check the signatures for fraud.

Donald Trump
stated on November 17, 2020 in a Tweet:
“The recent statement by Chris Krebs on the security of the 2020 Election was highly inaccurate, in that there were massive improprieties and fraud."

Donald Trump
stated on November 13, 2020 in a tweet:
A 1993 example of voter fraud in Philadelphia is “exactly what happened to us” in the 2020 election.

Donald Trump
stated on November 18, 2020 in a tweet:
"A day AFTER the election, Biden receives a dump of 143,379 votes at 3:42AM (in Wisconsin), when they learned he was losing badly. This is unbelievable!"

Donald Trump
stated on November 22, 2020 in a tweet:
“In certain swing states, there were more votes than people who voted, and in big numbers.”

Donald Trump
stated on December 5, 2020 in Rally:
“Actually, I won Wisconsin.”

Donald Trump
stated on December 2, 2020 in a speech:
“In Wisconsin, there are approximately 70,000 absentee ballots that do not have matching ballot applications as required by law.”

Donald Trump
stated on December 9, 2020 in a tweet:
“No candidate has ever won both Florida and Ohio and lost.”

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