Fact-checking Trump’s claims during his address to Congress
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🗓️ 5 March 2025
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| 0:00.0 | For a deeper dive and a fact check on many of the claims the President made last night. |
| 0:05.1 | I'm joined now by our White House correspondent Laura Barone Lopez. |
| 0:08.8 | Laura, so let's just start with some of the biggest claims of the night. |
| 0:12.1 | What stood out to you in terms of the areas that President Trump focused on? |
| 0:15.6 | So this is not an exhaustive list, but these are some of the key misleading, exaggerated |
| 0:20.2 | or false statements that the president |
| 0:21.4 | made, starting with the fact that he said 21 million undocumented immigrants entered the United |
| 0:26.0 | States under Biden. It was actually under 11 million and many were rapidly expelled. |
| 0:30.9 | He said that 350 billion has been spent on supporting Ukraine. It's actually just over 180 billion. |
| 0:39.2 | That's according to the Ukraine oversight inspector general. And that includes money that's spent inside the U.S. on weapons |
| 0:43.5 | manufacturing. The president also said that fentanyl coming from Canada is killing thousands. |
| 0:48.3 | Actually, only 43 pounds of fentanyl was seized in 2024. 43 pounds of the fentanyl that was seized came from Canada. |
| 0:55.9 | So about 0.2% of the total amount. And then lastly, the president said that millions are being spent |
| 1:01.5 | on, quote, making mice transgender, that claim is false. That last one there, Laura, |
| 1:06.3 | making mice transgender, what's the reality there? So again, the idea that scientists are making |
| 1:12.7 | mice transgender is false. The kinds of research experiments that President Trump and the White |
| 1:17.7 | House were pointing to is basic scientific research. These studies were not studying if |
| 1:24.3 | gender affirming care works. That's a legal medical treatment that's endorsed by |
| 1:29.0 | major U.S. medical associations. These experiments were studying the effects of gender affirming |
| 1:34.0 | hormones on asthma and on whether gender affirming hormones increase breast cancer risk. So if |
| 1:40.3 | someone is getting gender affirming care, does it make an HIV vaccine less effective on that person? |
| 1:47.6 | Many diseases and conditions are impacted |
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