Well, the president has just finished his address to the nation, and was that a speech?

I mean, it felt almost like it did feel it was a bad, fast-talking infomercial with a lot of

anti-immigrant language just intertwined in there.

It was extremely loose on facts, and he basically tried to shout his alleged accomplishments

at the American people as if that

was going to convince them that they were all true. I'm going to get some reaction and experts

help analyzing what he said in just a moment. But first, I just want to quickly fact check just a few.

I mean, there were so many in there. We were working as quickly as we could. But just a few of the

president's most blatant falsehoods.

Tonight, Trump announced checks for $1,776 for U.S. troops.

First of all, Congress controls the power of the person in the country, not the president.

So if that happens, that is Congress sending those checks, even if Trump puts his name on them.

But that number, $1776, is also kind of interesting, because

an analysis from the Yale Budget Lab estimates that as of November, Trump tariffs have cost

Americans an average of $1,700 per household this year.

Trump also claimed that when he took office, inflation was the worst in 48 years.

That's not true.

The truth is that inflation had been declining from its peak of 7% during the pandemic.

But since Trump took office, it is basically flatlined at 3%.

It was 3% in January, and it's 3% today.

In his campaign, Trump also claimed he would end inflation on day one.

Now, just last week, the chair of the Federal

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