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President Donald Trump has offered a glowing account of progress under his watch in a speech from the White House.
Millions of Americans braced for runaway inflation in response to President Trump's aggressive import tariffs. They're still waiting.
The president pointed to the cost of gas as evidence that prices are falling, but the overall inflation rate has hovered close to 3%. While below the highs of the Biden years, the data is actually a slight uptick from 2024, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
President Donald Trump announces economic recovery progress including lower turkey and egg prices while criticizing Biden administration policies.
Trump repeated his false claim that an executive order he issued on prescription drug prices will cut those prices by “as much as 400, 500, and even 600%.” These figures are mathematically
President Trump's speech Wednesday night looked back on his first year and ahead to the next three. He touted new military bonuses, his tariffs and economic policies in a brief address.
CNN fact-checked President Donald Trump’s audacious claims in his national address just as quickly as he delivered his speech. Harry Enten, the network’s chief data analyst, swiftly shut down the rosy image that Trump painted of the economy in an 18-minute address that he delivered breathlessly on live TV as cost-of-living pressures continue to weigh down his approval ratings.
The president made a wide variety of claims Wednesday night. Some were true, some were misleading, and others were false.