Donald Trump's file

Republican from New York

Donald Trump was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016. He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015 Lie of the Year. Born and raised in New York City, Trump is married to Melania Trump, a former model from Slovenia. Trump has five children and eight grandchildren. Three of his children, Donald Jr., Ivanka, and Eric, serve as executive vice presidents of the Trump Organization.

The PolitiFact scorecard

True27 (%)(27)
Mostly True68 (%)(68)
Half True87 (%)(87)
Mostly False125 (%)(125)
False183 (%)(183)
Pants on Fire83 (%)(83)

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Recent statements about Donald Trump

Essentially, yes, though not literally jailed

Tammy Baldwin

Says Donald Trump's executive order "doesn't address the over 2,000 children who are already separated from their parents, and it doesn't change the fact that we would be jailing children with their families."

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Friday, June 22nd, 2018

Much is reallocated

Hakeem Jeffries

President Donald Trump’s budget "threatened to cut $2 trillion from Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid"

— PolitiFact New York on Friday, May 4th, 2018

Could be for non-nefarious reasons

Laurence Tribe

President Donald "Trump’s latest set of sanctions against companies and countries benefiting North Korea includes every nation but one making shipments to (North Korea). The one nation Trump exempted from his punitive ban was . . . wait for it . . . drumroll: Russia."

— PunditFact on Tuesday, March 6th, 2018

More like 20 percent

Bobbie Richardson

"The president is cutting the CDC budget by 80%.

— PolitiFact North Carolina on Friday, February 16th, 2018

Claim is nothing more than False

Phil Ting

"Trump’s tax reform plan was nothing more than a middle-class tax increase."

— PolitiFact California on Monday, February 5th, 2018

Recent statements made by Donald Trump

Projects underway aren't what Trump promised

Donald Trump

"We’ve already started (the border wall). We started it in San Diego."

— PolitiFact California on Tuesday, June 26th, 2018

Real numbers, don't prove fraud

Donald Trump

"There's been a 1,700 percent increase in asylum claims over the last 10 years."

— PolitiFact National on Thursday, June 21st, 2018

180 degree shift

Donald Trump

"You can’t (end the separation of families at the border) through an executive order."

— PolitiFact National on Thursday, June 21st, 2018

Crime is lowest in 30 years

Donald Trump

"Crime in Germany is way up."

— PolitiFact National on Monday, June 18th, 2018

Tenth of the money, not for naught

Donald Trump

Says Bill Clinton "spent $3 billion and got nothing. And (North Korea) started making nuclear weapons a day later."

— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, June 13th, 2018

Recent stories featuring Donald Trump

Have U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters and President Donald Trump made statements that encourage violence?

We examine the language by both political figures that their critics have said was incendiary

Trump doing a little better lately on the Truth-O-Meter

Ahead of his Wisconsin visit, a look at his latest fact checks.

Donald Trump's executive order ending his administration's separation of immigrant families

After falsely claiming that immigrant families were being separated at the border because of Democrats and arguing that he was unable to do anything about it, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to keep children and parents together in detention. Here’s an overview of what’s known and what’s uncertain after the executive order.

Fact tracking the 2018 candidates for U.S. senator

And: Fact tracking the candidates for governor.

The facts behind Donald Trump’s pardoning Dinesh D’Souza

President Donald Trump announced he would pardon controversial conservative pundit Dinesh D’Souza on May 31, 2018. Here’s a closer look at Trump’s fifth presidential pardon.