In no explicit order, listed here are a number of the most egregious hoaxes peddled by the same old suspects to date in President Trump’s second time period:
HOAX: Faux Information CNN tried to “fact check” President Trump’s declare that the Biden Administration spent thousands and thousands on “making mice transgender.”
FACT: After their so-called “fact check” was completely debunked, they have been pressured to replace it in shame and admit the declare was, in actual fact, true.
HOAX: The Faux Information claimed the Division of Protection eliminated Gen. Colin Powell’s title from a listing of notable People buried at Arlington Cemetery.
FACT: No service members’ names have been eliminated from that part — and Gen. Powell’s title stays amongst these listed.
HOAX: Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) claimed “no president” presided over extra aircraft crashes throughout their first month in workplace as President Trump.
FACT: “There were 55 aviation accidents in the U.S. between Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 21, 2021, and Feb. 17, 2021, compared to 35 during the same period for Trump,” Fox Information reported.
HOAX: Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) and Chicago Public Colleges officers claimed, with out bothering to confirm, that ICE brokers had performed a “raid” at an elementary faculty — a false declare echoed by media shops, together with the Chicago Tribune.
FACT: It was truly the U.S. Secret Service investigating a menace unrelated to immigration.
HOAX: Far-left influencers and different leftist hacks falsely claimed the Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) and Elon Musk have been out to “cut Social Security.”
FACT: They have been referencing an interview during which Musk was clearly referring to the great quantity of waste, fraud, and abuse inside entitlement packages.
HOAX: The media smeared DOGE as “young, inexperienced engineers” engineering a “government takeover.”
FACT: In actuality, DOGE is led by seasoned business professionals, together with profitable CEOs who paused their lives to help within the effort of streamlining authorities and holding the forms accountable.
HOAX: NBC’s Peter Alexander peddled the lie that “constituents in some traditionally red districts” have been sad with President Trump’s effort to chop waste, fraud, and abuse in authorities.
FACT: The identical “protests” cited by the Faux Information have been funded and arranged by far-left particular curiosity teams.
HOAX: NPR claimed NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore — who have been caught on the Worldwide House Station for greater than 9 months following issues with their spacecraft — have been “not stranded.”
FACT: NPR itself had described the astronauts as stranded in prior reporting, and solely appeared to take subject with the outline as soon as President Trump and Elon Musk made it a precedence to deliver them dwelling.
HOAX: A international Faux Information outlet reported that President Trump “shut down” the British prime minister throughout a information convention.
FACT: In actuality, President Trump was merely shifting on from a reporter who was making an attempt to goad the 2 leaders into division.
HOAX: NPR falsely claimed the White Home was actively looking for a brand new secretary of protection.
FACT: This lie was instantly shut down by a number of Trump Administration officers, together with President Trump himself.
HOAX: The Faux Information tried to color unlawful immigrant gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia as an harmless “Maryland father” who was unjustly deported by the Trump Administration — and actively censored the reality about him.
FACT: Abrego Garcia is a citizen of El Salvador and was deported to his dwelling nation amid overwhelming proof of his gang affiliation.
HOAX: Deranged “filmmaker” Michael Moore questioned whether or not deported unlawful immigrants would go on to remedy most cancers or cease “that asteroid (sic) that’s gonna hit us.”
FACT: Moore’s assertion was a sturdy early contender for the dumbest, most ridiculous assertion of the yr contemplating these deported unlawful immigrants have been violent criminals.
HOAX: The Faux Information portrayed Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Hamas radical who led violent protests at Columbia, as an harmless graduate pupil with an absolute proper to stay within the U.S.
FACT: An immigration choose dominated Khalil — who isn’t a U.S. citizen — might be deported.
HOAX: The Monetary Instances reported that Senior White Home Counselor Peter Navarro needed to take away Canada from the “Five Eyes” intelligence sharing community.
FACT: Mr. Navarro instantly shut down this faux story.
HOAX: A international Faux Information reporter claimed President Trump referred to European nations as “parasites.”
FACT: President Trump instantly pushed again on this ridiculous declare — as did the Italian prime minister.
HOAX: Faux Information CNN’s Brianna Keilar implied the Trump Administration was one way or the other fallacious for stopping unlawful immigrants from stealing taxpayer {dollars} within the type of welfare advantages.
FACT: Deputy Chief of Workers Stephen Miller summarily embarrassed her with the information: “The federal government will find EVERY illegal alien who is stealing American taxpayer dollars — and that’s what Americans expect to happen. I don’t even fathom the premise of your question.”
HOAX: A favourite chorus of the Faux Information is that Secretary of Well being and Human Companies Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is “anti-vaccine.”
FACT: Kennedy debunked the lie in his affirmation hearings: “This has been repeatedly debunked … Bringing this up right now is dishonest.”
HOAX: WIRED falsely claimed the Social Safety Administration is “shifting its public communication exclusively to X” beneath President Trump.
FACT: Not taking place.
HOAX: Reuters falsely reported that the Trump Administration “stalled a United Nations program in Mexico aimed at stopping imported fentanyl chemicals from reaching the country’s drug cartels.”
FACT: The Division of State is definitely making an attempt to broaden the initiative.
FACT: The Faux Information often pushed the lie that as a part of the Trump administration, Secretary Kennedy would implement a nationwide abortion ban and “restrict or even ban medication abortion without a single act of Congress.”
FACT: Secretary Kennedy constantly pledged to implement President Trump’s insurance policies — which embrace leaving abortion to the states, ending barbaric late-term abortions, defending conscientious objections, and ending federal funding for abortions.
HOAX: Faux Information savant Tara Palmeri falsely reported that President Trump’s proposal for Gaza was conceived by Jared Kushner.
FACT: This lie was instantly and summarily debunked by the Trump Administration: “The worst reporter in America makes up fake news for clout because she has no real sources. Sit down, dummy.”
HOAX: Sen. Chris Murphy, Rep. Jasmine Crockett, and media shops claimed President Trump’s directive to pause radical, wasteful authorities spending meant an finish to Medicaid, meals help, and different particular person help packages.
FACT: Particular person help packages — Social Safety, Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, and so forth. — have been explicitly excluded, as was made clear by Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and the Workplace of Administration and Funds. Solely pointless spending — DEI, Inexperienced New Rip-off, NGOs that undermine the nationwide curiosity — have been included within the directive.
HOAX: A “physicians advocacy group” was broadly cited as opposing President Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to guide the Division of Well being and Human Companies.
FACT: The “advocacy group” was actually an astroturfed partisan group funded by outstanding left-wing donors — and accepted faux signatures.
HOAX: Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) and different Democrats pushed the lie that DOGE posted “classified information” on their web site.
FACT: That alleged “classified information” was actually simply an employment headcount — which has been publicly obtainable for years.
HOAX: Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) claimed Secretary of Homeland Safety Kristi Noem referred to as all Venezuelan immigrants “dirtbags.”
FACT: Secretary Noem truly referred to as unlawful immigrant members of the vicious Tren de Aragua gang “dirtbags,” which is true.
HOAX: The New York Instances wrote that Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., needed to “ban fluoride in drinking water” and “reverse … one of the most important public health practices in the country’s history.”
FACT: New York Instances made no point out of their personal reporting that fluoride could also be “linked to lower IQ scores in children.”
HOAX: Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) repeatedly lied about President Trump “going after” Social Safety.
FACT: President Trump has repeatedly pledged to guard Social Safety and make it extra sturdy for Americans.
HOAX: Sen. Mark Kelley (D-AZ) tried to scare veterans by shamelessly claiming their care was in jeopardy attributable to “layoffs” at VA hospitals.
FACT: The lie was debunked by Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins: “What changes are you talking about? We’ve not had those layoffs… I put $360 million back into community care… It’s concerning to me that a veteran would actually tell stories to veterans that are not true.”
HOAX: Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) exploited the Ronald Reagan Washington Nationwide Airport aircraft crash tragedy by claiming President Trump “froze the hiring” of air visitors controllers.
FACT: Air visitors controllers have been exempt from the federal hiring freeze.
HOAX: Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) implied that “cutting” members of an aviation advisory committee was one way or the other a reason behind the Ronald Reagan Washington Nationwide Airport aircraft crash tragedy.
FACT: The advisory group hadn’t met since 2023 and was comprised of enterprise and union leaders who gave “advice” to the TSA and had nothing to do with precise air journey.
HOAX: A far-left author claimed Elon Musk and DOGE staffers “illegally installed a commercial server to control federal HR databases that contain sensitive personal information, including SSNs, home addresses, and medical histories.”
FACT: A high official confirmed “there’s nothing illegal and no server, just more made up tall tales from uninformed career bureaucrats.”
HOAX: The Washington Put up alleged the Trump Administration was setting “quotas” for immigration authorities — and gave the administration simply 4 minutes to remark earlier than publishing.
FACT: As common, this was a faux story.
HOAX: On-line liberal activists claimed President Trump “took down” President Obama’s portrait within the White Home.
FACT: Obama’s portrait was not taken down — it was merely moved solely ft away from its earlier location.
HOAX: Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) claimed Lawyer Normal Pam Bondi created a “weaponizing task force.”
FACT: It was a process power to END weaponization on the Division of Justice.
HOAX: CBS Information reported that Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth ordered a “makeup studio” be put in contained in the Pentagon.
FACT: It was a “totally fake story,” and the alleged studio was actually an current inexperienced room with no frills.
HOAX: Politico reported the Trump Administration was debating lifting sanctions on Russian vitality property, together with the Nord Stream pipeline.
FACT: This was debunked by each Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Particular Envoy Steve Witkoff.
HOAX: An unlawful immigrant in U.S. custody “simply disappeared,” The New York Instances reported.
FACT: The unlawful immigrant was a confirmed member of the vicious Tren de Aragua gang. An immigration choose ordered his elimination, and he was deported together with different threats to nationwide safety.
HOAX: The Wall Road Journal alleged that Particular Envoy Steve Witkoff was receiving delicate data on a private cellphone whereas in Moscow and that Russian Intelligence should’ve had entry to the data.
FACT: This was a complete fabrication. Particular Envoy Witkoff didn’t even have a private cellphone with him in Russia. He had solely a authorities cellphone; a safe line of communication.
HOAX: The Wall Road Journal claimed the Trump Administration “sought to portray” deported prison unlawful immigrant gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia as “violent.”
FACT: Abrego Garcia’s personal spouse filed an order of safety in opposition to him and testified that he brutally beat her.
HOAX: An AP reporter claimed that FAA workers who labored on “radar, landing and navigational aid maintenance, among others” have been “harassed on Facebook” by DOGE.
FACT: That was a whole lie. DOGE doesn’t have a Fb web page and no professionals who carry out crucial security capabilities have been fired.
HOAX: The Day by day Beast claimed Vice President JD Vance “broke one of the most notorious Vatican rules during his Easter weekend visit” by being photographed within the Sistine Chapel.
FACT: Buried all the best way down within the 14th paragraph, The Day by day Beast admitted the vp was given particular permission by the Vatican to have images taken contained in the Sistine Chapel.
HOAX: Left-wing social media accounts promoted faux, AI-generated audio of Vice President Vance “disparaging Elon Musk in private.”
FACT: The audio was debunked as faux.
HOAX: The New York Instances reported that funding for the Girls’s Well being Initiative was being slashed by the Division of Well being and Human Companies.
FACT: Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., himself declared this Faux Information and acknowledged the mission is “mission critical.”
HOAX: Fox Information’s Jennifer Griffin gave legitimacy to a hoax from delusional Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) and Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) that Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth requested practically $140,000 in “upgrades” to his authorities residence.
FACT: This lie was debunked by Secretary Hegseth — and it was so outrageous, even the AP was pressured to confess it was utterly faux.
HOAX: Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) and plenty of others claimed the Supreme Court docket ordered the return of unlawful immigrant gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the US.
FACT: Even CNN admitted that’s not what occurred: “They did not order the administration to return him to the United States … they could’ve said ‘we order him returned,’ but they didn’t do that.”
HOAX: Joe Biden accused the Trump Administration of “taking aim at Social Security.”
FACT: As common, he was mendacity — President Trump has repeatedly pledged to guard Social Safety.
HOAX: Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) claimed the arrest of a Milwaukee choose who helped an unlawful immigrant evade arrest was “unprecedented.”
FACT: It wasn’t; it has occurred earlier than.
HOAX: Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) referred to as the arrest of a Milwaukee choose who helped an unlawful immigrant evade arrest a “gravely serious and drastic move.”
FACT: The choose violated the regulation by obstructing an ICE arrest of an unlawful immigrant.
HOAX: Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) claimed the arrest of the Milwaukee choose who obstructed a fear of a prison unlawful immigrant “threatens the rule of law.”
FACT: It actually does the alternative as a result of nobody is above the regulation.
HOAX: Politico claimed the Trump Administration “wipe[d] out firefighter health and safety programs.”
FACT: The packages stay a high precedence for the administration — and will stay intact.
HOAX: Sen. Elizabeth Warren claimed that President Trump’s insurance policies make it so “no one wants to make investments in the United States.”
FACT: President Trump has secured greater than $5 trillion in investments since taking workplace, which is predicted to create greater than 451,000 new jobs — and the listing is simply anticipated to develop.
HOAX: NBC’s Kristen Welker peddled a Faux Information hoax that the Trump Administration was deporting youngsters.
FACT: Secretary of State Marco Rubio shut down her determined try at a hoax by highlighting how the mom, who was within the nation illegally, made that selection all on her personal.
HOAX: The New York Instances implied President Trump was alone in carrying a blue swimsuit to the funeral of Pope Francis.
FACT: Photographs present dozens of world leaders and different attendees — many located close to President Trump — additionally carrying blue clothes.
HOAX: Academics’ union boss Randi Weingarten accused President Trump of taking academics’ salaries and giving them to “billionaires” by slicing the Division of Schooling.
FACT: President Trump has repeatedly referred to as academics “the most important people in this country” who must be paid extra, not much less. The federal authorities doesn’t pay the salaries of academics; state and native governments do.
HOAX: The Faux Information and their predictable allies ran with a story that claimed an American citizen was detained by authorities after he knowledgeable them he was, in actual fact, a citizen.
FACT: That’s not what occurred. The person “approached Border Patrol in Tucson and stated he had entered the U.S. illegally through Nogales. He said he wanted to turn himself in and completed a sworn statement identifying as a Mexican citizen who had entered unlawfully … A few days later, his family presented documents showing U.S. citizenship. The charges were dismissed, and he was released to his family.”
HOAX: PBS Information claimed “DOGE operatives attempted to gain access to secure spaces,” implying they tried to entry labeled data with out approval.
FACT: This wasn’t even remotely true.
HOAX: The AP falsely claimed Director of Nationwide Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard mentioned President Trump is “very good friends” with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
FACT: The AP was humiliatingly pressured to retract its story, admitting they have been fallacious. Stephanie Ruhle additionally had to subject a correction. DNI Gabbard was referencing President Trump’s relationship with Indian PM Narendra Modi.
HOAX: Scholar visa holders ought to have unfettered entry to do no matter they need in the US.
FACT: Mistaken. As Secretary of State Marco Rubio mentioned, “When you apply to enter the United States and you get a visa, you are a guest… If you tell us when you apply for a visa ‘I’m coming to the U.S. to participate in pro-Hamas events,’ that runs counter to the foreign policy interest of the United States… If you had told us you were going to do that, we never would have given you the visa.”
