As always, the jerk was lying his ass off…

 FACT CHECK

Fact-Checking Trump’s Speech at the United Nations

President Trump’s remarks about oil reserves, the drug trade and his peace efforts contained falsehoods and exaggerations.

The president repeated a number of claims that The New York Times has previously fact-checked:

  • He falsely claimed to have ushered in $21 trillion in foreign investments. (This is almost double the White House’s own tally, which includes broad pledges and previously announced investments.)

  • He falsely claimed to have signed the largest tax cuts in American history. (The tax cuts signed into law last summer rank sixth.)

  • He claimed that there are “more Americans working today by far than ever before.” (This is a meaningless statistic, given population growth. The unemployment rate in August was currently a low 4.1 percent, which is higher than in January 2025, when he took office.)

  • He misleadingly said that “we have more munitions than we could ever possibly even think of using, and we’re building them at levels that we have never done before.” (The Iran war has drained the United States’ arsenal of munitions.)

  • He overstated credit for settling eight wars. (It is an exaggeration to call some of the conflicts “wars,” and some countries dispute Mr. Trump’s role in others).

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