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Search results for "America is the Weakest Country in the World. Like a 3rd World Country."

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Eric Bolling stated on August 27, 2015 in a broadcast of "The Five" on Fox News:
"In countries where there are higher, more strict gun laws, there is more gun violence."
By Jon Greenberg• September 1, 2015
World Food Program stated on February 05, 2017 in a tweet:
"Food waste is the 3rd largest contributor" of greenhouse gas emissions.  
By Jon Greenberg• February 14, 2017
Joe Biden stated on March 15, 2020 in a Democratic primary debate:
The World Health Organization offered the testing kits that they have available and to give it to us now. We refused them. We did not want to buy them.”
By Jon Greenberg, Victoria Knight• March 16, 2020
Viral image stated on March 20, 2018 in In a meme:
"The United States is 3rd in murders throughout the world. If you remove Chicago, Detroit, Washington, St. Louis and New Orleans, the United States is then 189th out of 193 countries in the entire world."
By Manuela Tobias• March 28, 2018
Fareed Zakaria stated on June 10, 2018 in in a monologue:
"When you tally up their representation in Congress and governorships, the Democrats almost have their lowest representation in about 100 years." 
By John Kruzel• June 15, 2018
Mike Tate stated on May 28, 2015 in a speech:
A Republican budget proposal "would have Wisconsin have the weakest standards for who can be a teacher in the classroom in the country." 
By Tom Kertscher• June 11, 2015
Zach Nunn stated on May 09, 2022 in a campaign ad:
“Zack Nunn saved over 2,000 Americans abandoned in Afghanistan by leading private rescue missions.”
By Lyle Muller• May 27, 2022
Barack Obama stated on June 01, 2009 in interview with Canal Plus Television:
"If you actually took the number of Muslims [sic] Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world."
By Catharine Richert• June 4, 2009
Rudy Giuliani stated on February 23, 2015 in an op-ed in the 'Wall Street Journal':
Says President Barack Obama said "that American exceptionalism is no more exceptional than the exceptionalism of any other country."
By Steve Contorno• February 23, 2015
Bloggers stated on January 08, 2019 in in a story:
Says new U.S. Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib has been linked to an "unindicted terrorist."
By Samantha Putterman• January 14, 2019
Alan Grayson stated on April 25, 2016 in an Orlando debate:
"There's only three countries in the entire world where there's no paid vacation by law, we happen to be one of them."
By Joshua Gillin• May 3, 2016
Barack Obama stated on July 27, 2016 in a speech at the Democratic national convention:
"Almost every country on Earth sees America as stronger and more respected today than they did eight years ago when I took office."
By Linda Qiu• July 28, 2016
Larry Elder stated on August 20, 2014 in comments on CNN:
"If black America were a country, it’d be the 15th wealthiest nation in the world."
By Derek Tsang• September 2, 2014
Nancy Pelosi stated on June 17, 2014 in a tweet:
Says 11 soccer players on the U.S. Men’s National Team are immigrants.
By Steve Contorno• June 19, 2014
Donald Trump stated on February 06, 2016 in an ABC Republican debate in New Hampshire:
"Right now we’re the highest taxed country in the world."
By Joshua Gillin, Louis Jacobson• February 7, 2016
Donald Trump stated on May 18, 2016 in an interview with the New York Times Magazine:
"There are places in America that are among the most dangerous in the world. You go to places like Oakland. Or Ferguson. The crime numbers are worse. Seriously."
By Linda Qiu• May 25, 2016
Barack Obama stated on September 26, 2008 in a debate in Oxford, Miss.:
"There are so many loopholes ... our businesses pay effectively one of the lowest tax rates in the world."
By Robert Farley• September 30, 2008
Glenn Grothman stated on February 03, 2022 in Twitter:
"The US has made strides in reducing carbon emissions that other parts of the world have not."
By D.L. Davis• March 11, 2022
Donald Trump stated on April 26, 2017 in a tweet:
"The U.S. recorded its slowest economic growth in five years (2016). GDP up only 1.6%. Trade deficits hurt the economy very badly."
By Louis Jacobson• April 27, 2017
Greg Walden stated on April 18, 2013 in a radio interview:
Says "we allow more people into America legally than all other countries on the planet combined."
By Ian K. Kullgren• May 24, 2013

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By Robert Farley• April 30, 2008

What makes America "exceptional?"

By Dave Umhoefer• April 6, 2015

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By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman, Amy Sherman• April 6, 2026

Donald Trump's inaugural address: annotated

By Allison Graves, Miriam Valverde• January 20, 2017

Migrants at the southwest border: The Northern Triangle nations

By Jon Greenberg• July 2, 2018

World Refugee Day: Refugee claims and U.S. politics

By Jon Greenberg• June 20, 2016

Indictment of a president was unprecedented before Trump in the U.S., but not other countries

By Yacob Reyes• April 4, 2023

Donald Trump's GOP acceptance speech, annotated

By Joseph Cariz, Taylor Leighton, Adam Thorp• July 21, 2016

Trump has threatened ‘taking Cuba.’ What’s at stake for the US economically, politically?

By Louis Jacobson, Maria Ramirez Uribe• March 25, 2026

Fact-checking the Las Vegas GOP debate

By Lauren Carroll, Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson, Linda Qiu, Katie Sanders, Amy Sherman• December 15, 2015

Mailbag: The Mitt Romney edition

By Louis Jacobson• March 9, 2012

Fact-checking claims about Brazil's World Cup

By Katie Sanders• June 12, 2014

Fact-checks about FIFA and the World Cup

By Katie Sanders• June 20, 2014

Fact-checks about FIFA and the World Cup

By Katie Sanders• June 20, 2014

Fact-checking Donald Trump's inaugural address

By Linda Qiu• January 20, 2017

Yes, a deadly flesh-eating worm was found in the US. No, you shouldn't panic about screwworms

By Grace Abels• August 26, 2025

U.S. would be only country with religious test at border under Trump, Clinton says

By Allison Graves• September 2, 2016

Why a possible U.S. attack on Iran could break a longstanding U.S.-Israel pattern

By Louis Jacobson• June 17, 2025

Fact-checking Donald Trump's speech after Iran missile strikes on US troops

By Bill McCarthy, Miriam Valverde• January 8, 2020