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Top 25 documented false or misleading Trump claims (short correction + source)

1. “The 2020 election was stolen / rigged by widespread fraud.” Correction: Multiple audits, recounts, bipartisan state officials, and hundreds of court rulings found no evidence of fraud on a scale that would change the outcome. 

2. “I had the largest inaugural crowd in history.” Correction: Aerial photos, transit numbers and reporting showed the crowd was smaller than Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration. 

3. “President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower.” Correction: No evidence supports that claim; U.S. intelligence and the Justice Department found no proof. 

4. “Mexico will pay for the wall.” Correction: Mexico never agreed to pay for the border wall; U.S. funding required Congressional appropriation. 

5. “There were millions of illegal votes (3 million) in 2016 / 2020.” Correction: Studies and state officials find no credible evidence of millions of illegal votes. Estimates of such scale are unsupported.  

6. “COVID-19 is no worse than the flu / it will magically disappear.” Correction: COVID-19 caused far higher hospitalizations and deaths than seasonal flu; public-health authorities contradicted claims that it would just disappear. 

7. “Hydroxychloroquine is a proven, effective COVID-19 cure.” Correction: Rigorous clinical trials found no clear benefit and potential harms; medical agencies warned against routine use. 

8. “He personally negotiated the release of huge numbers of foreign prisoners / payments that turned out different.” Correction: Many claims about who negotiated what or the amounts were exaggerated or factually incorrect when checked. 

9. “He won the popular vote in 2016 (or that fraud changed 2016 popular vote).” Correction: Hillary Clinton won the 2016 popular vote by nearly 3 million votes; claims otherwise are false. ?

10. “Voter fraud is rampant with mail-in ballots.” Correction: Research and state election officials show mail-in voting produces very low rates of fraud. 

11. “Wind turbines cause cancer / cause health problems for nearby people.” Correction: Scientific consensus does not support the broad claim that wind turbines cause cancer. (Fact-checks show the claim is misleading.) 

12. Sharpie-Gate (claim about NOAA changing Hurricane Dorian forecast to include Alabama). Correction: NOAA scientists said the tweet and the map were wrongly interpreted; the claim that forecasts were altered to fit a Sharpie annotation was false or misleading. 

13. “He created the best economy in the history of the world” (repeatedly). Correction: Economic measures are complex — fact-checkers say this is an exaggeration and omits context and baselines. ? 14. Overstating job numbers / claiming credit for jobs that weren’t his doing. Correction: Many such claims cherry-pick data or ignore preexisting trends and outside factors. 

15. “Voter machines were switching votes (e.g., 2016/2020 claims).” Correction: Examinations and courts found no credible evidence that machines switched votes at scale.

16. Claims that climate change is a hoax or that scientists are lying. Correction: The scientific consensus is that human activity is a major driver of recent climate change; blanket claims that it’s a hoax are false.

17. Inflated or false statements about opioid/drug death numbers (e.g., claiming hundreds of thousands in a year). Correction: CDC provisional counts are far lower than some of the inflated figures he’s cited; these claims are exaggerations.

18. False claims about who paid for certain construction projects (e.g., “I paid for X” when donors did). Correction: Fact-checkers show many such claims misattribute funding or exaggerate personal payment.

19. Misstating court rulings or legal outcomes (e.g., saying cases were decided in his favor when they were dismissed on narrow grounds). Correction: Legal records often contradict simplistic/boastful characterizations.

20. Claims that crime surged due to immigration in ways unsupported by data. Correction: Crime statistics do not support broad, repeated claims that immigrants increased crime at the scale claimed. 21. Repeated false statements about the Affordable Care Act that were contradicted by policy texts and experts. Correction: Many assertions about ACA provisions and impact were inaccurate or misleading.

22. Claims that foreign countries “owe” the U.S. for defense in specific, unilateral ways or that NATO members reimburse the U.S. immediately. Correction: Reality is governed by treaty, alliances, and complex budgets — many one-line claims were misleading.

23. False or exaggerated statements about energy production (e.g., “we are energy independent because of me”). Correction: Energy markets and production are driven by many factors; such absolute claims are oversimplifications.

24. Misleading statements about his taxes and net worth (e.g., simple denials contradicted by reporting). Correction: Investigations and reporting have contradicted many claims about the scale of his wealth and tax payments.

25. Repeatedly mischaracterizing statements, positions or quotes from opponents and media (quoting out of context or inventing quotes). Correction: Contextual checks repeatedly show quotes were altered or context removed to change meaning.