Trump/Admin Policies

gimmesometruth27 · February 25

Get_Right said:

Trump is a terrible human being. I do not debate that. Even if you you do not agree with his politics and tactics. What are the lies you speak of? What did Biden accomplish other than falling down the stairs? He was a joke of a president. Nothing more than a figurehead. And that is why he did not run for a second term.

also, if you want to keep score on who has fallen up the steps more between biden and trump, it is trump.

trump also had to be helped down a ramp at that military graduation.

trump cannot drink water with one hand.

trump got covid multiple times out of his own stupidity.

trump looked directly at an eclipse.

trump constantly falls asleep in meetings. biden did it once or twice.

i could go on, but it is pointless.

Halifax2TheMax · February 25

*The following opinion is mine and mine alone and does not represent the views of my family, friends, government and/or my past, present or future employer. US Department of State: 1-888-407-4747.

Sure, Brandon didn’t accomplish anything either except for falling up and down the stairs, sometimes both at the same time.

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/fact-sheet-the-biden-harris-administration-record

Halifax2TheMax · February 25

Get_Right said:

Trump is a terrible human being. I do not debate that. Even if you you do not agree with his politics and tactics. What are the lies you speak of? What did Biden accomplish other than falling down the stairs? He was a joke of a president. Nothing more than a figurehead. And that is why he did not run for a second term.

*The following opinion is mine and mine alone and does not represent the views of my family, friends, government and/or my past, present or future employer. US Department of State: 1-888-407-4747.

You really need to get out more. These are just from tonight’s SOTU. Clearly, you’re not serious. But then again, DC has been this way for decades and nobody who hasn’t worked in DC and known lobbyists really understands how it works. Bunch of idealists, eh?

Jobs, gas prices and ending wars: factchecking Trump’s State of the Union claims

The president’s lengthy speech to Congress contained myriad inflated, misleading or simply false claims

Donald Trump officially made the longest State of the Union address in history on Tuesday night, with broad claims about the successes achieved during the first year of his second term.

But the speech that stretched across more than an hour and 41 minutes was filled with strong statements, many of them inflated, misleading or simply untrue.

Here are some of the claims made by the president during his address:

Factcheck: economy, jobs and investments

Trump repeatedly touted his economy, boasting “we are the hottest country anywhere in the world” and claiming “we have more jobs, more people working today than ever before in the history of our country.”

But data shows job gains under Trump slowed in 2025, and were far smaller than any other non-pandemic year.

According to revised data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics earlier this month, the US gained just 181,000 jobs in 2025.

That number, PolitiFact notes, is “well below the 1.5 million to 2.5 million typical under both Trump during his first term and former President Joe Biden”.

Trump also said the US had, under his leadership, secured $18tn in investments “pouring in from all over the globe”. But a review from CNN last year found that the White House was counting pledges – vague amounts promised – rather than actual investments. The White House website on investments lists total US and Foreign Investments at $9.7tn.

Factcheck: killer of Iryna Zarutska was not an immigrant

When Trump introduced the mother of Iryna Zarutska, the Ukrainian woman killed on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina last year, he falsely claimed the man who stabbed Zarutska was “a hardened criminal set free to kill in America came in through open borders”.

However, DeCarlos Brown Jr, the man arrested and charged with killing Zarutska, is not an immigrant. Trump has long insisted that non-citizens are responsible for violent crime throughout the US. Data showsthat relative to undocumented immigrants, US-born citizens are more than twice as likely to be arrested for violent crimes, and 2.5 times more likely to be arrested for drug crimes.

Factcheck: US energy prices

Trump suggested that energy prices are decreasing. “When they see energy going down to numbers like that, they cannot believe it,” he said.

But the average household energy bill went up by 6.7% from 2024 to 2025 in the US. That’s despite Trump’s oft-repeated promise to cut electricity costs in half within his first year back in office.

Since Trump retook the White House, utility companies have raised or sought to raise rates on American families by at least $92bn, raising bills for 112 million electric customers and 52 million gas customers, according to an analysisfrom liberal thinktank the Center for American Progress. The president’s attacks on clean energy expansion are also expected to increase electricity rates by up to 18% by 2035, data from power research group Energy Innovation shows.

The Trump administration has also gutted energy assistance for US families. Last year, the administration eliminated tax credits for cost-cutting home energy-efficiency upgrades. It also attempted to eliminate the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which helps 6 million low-income Americans with their energy bills each year. The program survived, but has been significantly hindered after the administration laid off the program’s entire staff. The cuts and a government shutdown caused unprecedented delays in the disbursement of aid.

Factcheck: gas prices

Trump touted low gas prices during his state of the union speech, saying they are “now below $2.30 a gallon in most states and in some places, $1.99 a gallon”. But a major environmental rollback his administration enacted two weeks ago could push gas prices up.

The repeal of the endangerment finding – the legal underpinning for all greenhouse gas regulations in the US – is expected to create a rise in gas prices, as the Guardian explained in an analysis last week. That’s according to the administration’s own data. Check it out here.

Gas prices are also higher than the president claimed. According to AAA, which logs prices across the country, Oklahoma is the only state offering gas at $2.30 a gallon – or $2.374, to be precise. Prices in some states exceed $4.60.

Factcheck: war and peace

The president claimed he ended eight wars in his first 10 months, a bold exaggeration. The US has been party to six peace agreements and several of them do not credit Trump specifically. Others were not considered wars to begin with.

While he was involved in efforts to broker a ceasefire in Gaza, Israel has continued to kill Palestinian civilians and carry out airstrikes since last October’s truce was announced.

The century-long border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia is one of the conflicts Trump claims to have resolved. Trump presided over the signing of a ceasefire dealbetween the two sides in October, calling it “a monumental step”.

He had pressured leaders from both countries to make a deal by warning trade talks with the US would otherwise be put on hold. However, the underlying causes of the conflict, which is rooted in longstanding disagreements over colonial-era maps, has never been resolved. The ceasefire broke down just weeks later in November, and fighting erupted again in December, forcing half a million people to flee their homes.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/25/trump-state-of-the-union-factcheck

Halifax2TheMax · February 25

*The following opinion is mine and mine alone and does not represent the views of my family, friends, government and/or my past, present or future employer. US Department of State: 1-888-407-4747.

These are just the “false” claims, which are lies, if you’re wondering.

“The cheating is rampant in our elections. It’s rampant. … They want to cheat. They have cheated. And their policy is so bad that the only way they can get elected is to cheat and we’re going to stop it.”

— President Trump

This is false.

By any definition, the number of ballots cast illegally and by noncitizens in American elections is infinitesimally small. A study conducted by Mr. Trump’s Department of Homeland Securityfound that of 49.5 million voter registrations that were checked, about 10,000 cases were referred for additional investigation of noncitizenship — roughly .02 percent of the names processed.

In Georgia, a battleground state that Mr. Trump lost in 2020 and has been fixated on ever since, the secretary of state in 2024found that 20 of the state’s 8.2 million registered voters were not U.S. citizens. Of those 20, just nine had voted in previous elections. Mr. Trump made his false claims in an effort to persuade Senator John Thune of South Dakota, the majority leader, to push the Republican bill known as the Save America Act, which would overhaul the nation’s election laws, to a vote.

Near-solid Democratic opposition has stalled the bill, which requires 60 votes to clear the chamber’s filibuster threshold.

“When I last spoke in the chamber 12 months ago, I had just inherited a nation in crisis with a stagnant economy, inflation at record levels, a wide open border, horrendous recruitment for military and police, rampant crime at home, and wars and chaos all over the world. Tonight after just one year, I can say with dignity and pride that we have achieved a transformation like no one has ever seen before. A turnaround for the ages.”

— President Trump

False

Mr. Trump’s claims of a historic turnaround are not backed by the facts.

Inflation had fallen to 3 percent in January 2025, when Mr. Trump took office. Inflation did reach a four-decade high in the summer of 2022, at about 9 percent in June, but declined since then. That number was also not a record;inflation reached higher points in the 1910s, 1970s and 1980s.

Inflation has gone down, but it was declining before Trump took office

12-month percent change in consumer price index

“In four long years, the last administration got less than $1 trillion in new investment in the United States. And when I say less, substantially less. In 12 months, I secured commitments for more than $18 trillion pouring in from all over the globe.”

— President Trump

False.

Mr. Trump’s stated $18 trillion is almost double what his own White House press office has tallied ($9.7 trillion). It also includes broad pledges and previously announced projects. And more than half of that amount comes from informal pledges from foreign countries to invest in the United States that experts warn may be unrealistic.

For example, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates each pledged more than $1 trillion in investments, which is more than their gross domestic products. A January analysisof the investment pledges from the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a Washington think tank, found that many were “framed in aspirational terms and lack clear enforcement mechanisms.”

The comparison to investments announced under former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. is also misleading. The Biden administration, last January, tallied nearly $800 billion in manufacturing projectsspurred by the passage of four laws. The vast majority of those announcements have detailson specific facilities’ locations and investment amounts or are already underway (for example, a $11 billion semiconductor plant in Utah and a $1 billion solar panel plant in Oklahoma).

“Last year, I urged this Congress to begin the mission by passing the largest tax cuts in American history, and the Republican majority delivered so beautifully!”

— President Trump

False.

The tax cut and domestic policy package Mr. Trump signed into law last summer ranks as the sixth largest in history, as a share of the economy, according to the Tax Foundation, a conservative think tank. (The 2017 tax cuts were the eighth largest.)

“I believe the tariffs, paid for by foreign countries, will, like in the past, substantially replace the modern day system of income tax — taking a great financial burden off the people that I love.”

— President Trump

This is false.

Mr. Trump is asserting that foreign countries pay U.S. tariffs, but it is American importers that pay those levies.

The recent Supreme Court ruling that found Mr. Trump was using emergency tariffs illegally confirmed that U.S. businesses were paying the tariffs. The government is now expected to refund more than $100 billion in tariff revenue to businesses that paid them.

It is unlikely that tariff revenue will replace income taxes any time soon. In 2024, the federal government collected $2.4 trillion in federal income taxes. Tariff revenue was around $300 billion last year, and roughly half of that will have to be repaid due to the Supreme Court ruling.

“If we’re able to find enough of that fraud, we will actually have a balanced budget overnight.”

— President Trump

False.

It is implausible that all fraud in government programs would balance the federal budget. The federal deficit was $1.8 trillion in 2025. A 2024 report from the Government Accountability Office estimated that the federal government lost $233 billion to $521 billion to fraud annually, including schemes that were undetected. Eliminating all fraud in government programs across the country would reduce the federal deficit by a third.

“Under Biden and his corrupt partners in Congress and beyond, it reached a breaking point with the green new scam, open borders for everyone. They poured in by the millions and millions from prisons, from mental institutions. There were murderers, 11,088 murderers.”

— President Trump

This is false.

Mr. Trump is right that record numbers of migrants entered the United States under the Biden administration, particularly in the fiscal years 2022 and 2023. But his most repeated statements warning about the level of illegal immigration and characterizing unauthorized migrants as criminals taking advantage of government handouts are inaccurate. They also wrongly describe federal data.

Mr. Trump has repeatedly claimed that 11,088 convicted murderers have entered the United States. But he appears to be citing federal data about noncitizens who entered the country over multiple administrations, including his own first term.

“The cheating is rampant in our elections. It’s rampant. … They want to cheat. They have cheated. And their policy is so bad that the only way they can get elected is to cheat and we’re going to stop it.”

— President Trump

This is false.

By any definition, the number of ballots cast illegally and by noncitizens in American elections is infinitesimally small. A study conducted by Mr. Trump’s Department of Homeland Securityfound that of 49.5 million voter registrations that were checked, about 10,000 cases were referred for additional investigation of noncitizenship — roughly .02 percent of the names processed.

In Georgia, a battleground state that Mr. Trump lost in 2020 and has been fixated on ever since, the secretary of state in 2024found that 20 of the state’s 8.2 million registered voters were not U.S. citizens. Of those 20, just nine had voted in previous elections. Mr. Trump made his false claims in an effort to persuade Senator John Thune of South Dakota, the majority leader, to push the Republican bill known as the Save America Act, which would overhaul the nation’s election laws, to a vote.

Near-solid Democratic opposition has stalled the bill, which requires 60 votes to clear the chamber’s filibuster threshold.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02/25/us/fact-check-state-of-the-union-trump

Get_Right · February 25

No doubt that speech was full of holes and much pomp and circumstance. I do not recall a more divided room for a SOFU address. But unfortunately, that is what I have come to expect from our politicians. Especially from the grandmaster of grandstanding.

josevolution · February 25

Glad I didn’t watch fuckface stand there and garble! Lie after lie and misinformation.

When Republicans win elections there’s zero talk about cheating and fake ballots but don’t let a democrat win surely they must of cheated after all who likes democrats, that’s your president last night, he can’t leave Earth fast enough for me

Gern Blansten · February 25

I was surprised that my wife wanted to tune in...that lasted about 10 minutes. Insufferable bullshit.

I didn't expect him to come out with the "things are great now" speech...really thought he would cushion it a bit

mickeyrat · February 25

gimmesometruth27 said:

Get_Right said:

Trump is a terrible human being. I do not debate that. Even if you you do not agree with his politics and tactics. What are the lies you speak of? What did Biden accomplish other than falling down the stairs? He was a joke of a president. Nothing more than a figurehead. And that is why he did not run for a second term.

also, if you want to keep score on who has fallen up the steps more between biden and trump, it is trump.

trump also had to be helped down a ramp at that military graduation.

trump cannot drink water with one hand.

trump got covid multiple times out of his own stupidity.

trump looked directly at an eclipse.

trump constantly falls asleep in meetings. biden did it once or twice.

i could go on, but it is pointless.

yes, it is. my read is teolling

gimmesometruth27 · February 25

Gern Blansten said:

I was surprised that my wife wanted to tune in...that lasted about 10 minutes. Insufferable bullshit.

I didn't expect him to come out with the "things are great now" speech...really thought he would cushion it a bit

my mom actually called me last night and said "hey trump is giving his speech tonight. are you going to watch it? dad and I are."

i said "no way in hell i am watching that bullshit. why are you guys watching it?"

mom said "your dad wants to hate watch it."

my parents are 80 and 77. they should not be hate watching anything.

Halifax2TheMax · February 25

*The following opinion is mine and mine alone and does not represent the views of my family, friends, government and/or my past, present or future employer. US Department of State: 1-888-407-4747.

Don’t know about you but I particularly enjoyed the calling out of two of the SCOTUS justices by first name. That wasn’t authoritarian at all.

mickeyrat · February 25

On Tuesday night, Donald Trump delivered a long and news-free address to the nation. “There was no resetting of the narrative, no course correction nor even a meaningful explanation of what the course is,” Susan B. Glasser writes.

The problem for Trump is that he’s not a persuader; he’s a pitchman, the kind of salesman who transmits in exclamation points all the fantastic, terrific, unbelievable features of the new car he wants you to buy. “A short time ago, we were a dead country!” Trump said in his speech. But, as Susan B. Glasser writes, “The salesman is not who you want to talk to when when you have the broken-down old jalopy towed back to the lot and demand a refund. Based on the polls, it’s pretty apparent that America wants its money back.” Read her column on Trump’s State of the Union address: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jWEDBc

mickeyrat · February 25

gimmesometruth27 said:

Gern Blansten said:

I was surprised that my wife wanted to tune in...that lasted about 10 minutes. Insufferable bullshit.

I didn't expect him to come out with the "things are great now" speech...really thought he would cushion it a bit

my mom actually called me last night and said "hey trump is giving his speech tonight. are you going to watch it? dad and I are."

i said "no way in hell i am watching that bullshit. why are you guys watching it?"

mom said "your dad wants to hate watch it."

my parents are 80 and 77. they should not be hate watching anything.

maybe so , but I like the attitude ...

gimmesometruth27 · February 25

mickeyrat said:

gimmesometruth27 said:

Gern Blansten said:

I was surprised that my wife wanted to tune in...that lasted about 10 minutes. Insufferable bullshit.

I didn't expect him to come out with the "things are great now" speech...really thought he would cushion it a bit

my mom actually called me last night and said "hey trump is giving his speech tonight. are you going to watch it? dad and I are."

i said "no way in hell i am watching that bullshit. why are you guys watching it?"

mom said "your dad wants to hate watch it."

my parents are 80 and 77. they should not be hate watching anything.

maybe so , but I like the attitude ...

he hate watches hannity too. i can't stand to be over there when hannity is on.

HughFreakingDillon · February 25

Michael Anthony (bassist for Van Halen) came across my instagram feed this morning, he posted a pic of the SOTU with "this should be interesting" and Sammy Hagar replied "it was awesome" with an american flag emoji.

Did not have Sammy as a maga. Maybe Epstein liked his tequila. lol

Gern Blansten · February 25

HughFreakingDillon said:

Michael Anthony (bassist for Van Halen) came across my instagram feed this morning, he posted a pic of the SOTU with "this should be interesting" and Sammy Hagar replied "it was awesome" with an american flag emoji.

Did not have Sammy as a maga. Maybe Epstein liked his tequila. lol

ick...but whatever

Get_Right · February 25

But why would you not watch? That is the problem. Just hate the man but not hear what he has to say? It may be all rhetoric and political BS but why not watch and listen? Maybe 20% of what he says is true.

gimmesometruth27 · February 25

Get_Right said:

But why would you not watch? That is the problem. Just hate the man but not hear what he has to say? It may be all rhetoric and political BS but why not watch and listen? Maybe 20% of what he says is true.

because most of us have better things to do with out finite time than to sit there and be lied to for two hours.

you can spend your time like that, but fuck no i will not.

gimmesometruth27 · February 25

HughFreakingDillon said:

Michael Anthony (bassist for Van Halen) came across my instagram feed this morning, he posted a pic of the SOTU with "this should be interesting" and Sammy Hagar replied "it was awesome" with an american flag emoji.

Did not have Sammy as a maga. Maybe Epstein liked his tequila. lol

maybe sammy is in the files.

i thought michael would be more maga than sammy.

Get_Right · February 25

gimmesometruth27 said:

Get_Right said:

But why would you not watch? That is the problem. Just hate the man but not hear what he has to say? It may be all rhetoric and political BS but why not watch and listen? Maybe 20% of what he says is true.

because most of us have better things to do with out finite time than to sit there and be lied to for two hours.

you can spend your time like that, but fuck no i will not.

But if you do not watch, then you should not criticize. Because that means you are relying on media. Which is biased. You are pre-judging without actually listening. So that weakens your credibility with any criticism you might have. Participate in the process instead of throwing blanket opinions.

Bentleyspop · February 25

I participated in the djt SOTUS drinking game.
I took a shot of RUssian vodka every time he lied.
5 minutes in I had to call for an ambulance to take me to rehab.
90 days should do it

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Jobs, gas prices and ending wars: factchecking Trump’s State of the Union claims

“The cheating is rampant in our elections. It’s rampant. … They want to cheat. They have cheated. And their policy is so bad that the only way they can get elected is to cheat and we’re going to stop it.”

This is false.

False

Inflation has gone down, but it was declining before Trump took office

“In four long years, the last administration got less than $1 trillion in new investment in the United States. And when I say less, substantially less. In 12 months, I secured commitments for more than $18 trillion pouring in from all over the globe.”

False.

“Last year, I urged this Congress to begin the mission by passing the largest tax cuts in American history, and the Republican majority delivered so beautifully!”

False.

“I believe the tariffs, paid for by foreign countries, will, like in the past, substantially replace the modern day system of income tax — taking a great financial burden off the people that I love.”

This is false.

“If we’re able to find enough of that fraud, we will actually have a balanced budget overnight.”

False.

“Under Biden and his corrupt partners in Congress and beyond, it reached a breaking point with the green new scam, open borders for everyone. They poured in by the millions and millions from prisons, from mental institutions. There were murderers, 11,088 murderers.”

This is false.

“The cheating is rampant in our elections. It’s rampant. … They want to cheat. They have cheated. And their policy is so bad that the only way they can get elected is to cheat and we’re going to stop it.”

This is false.

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