Source
PolitiFact
reliable Ruled 2026-10-23.
Wikipedia perennial sources: generally reliable ("PolitiFact", last discussed 2019). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:RSP#PolitiFact
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Migrant caravan coverage timed to election season
The recurring talk of a Trump third term
The recurring promise that Mexico will pay for the wall
The recurring drug-laced Halloween candy scare
The recurring Trump remarks about acing his cognitive test
The recurring claim that Ilhan Omar married her brother
The recurring promise to end the Ukraine war "in 24 hours" / "on day one"
Election-season "ballots found in a ditch" stories
- Oct 2024: Fake video of Bucks County ballots being destroyed
- Nov 2022: Midterm "ballots in the trash" and the Santa Cruz Mountains ravine
- Mar 2021: "Shredded ballots" in a Maricopa County dumpster
- Nov 2020: Dumpster rumors after Election Day (Georgia, Arizona)
- Sep 2020 – Oct 2020: Discarded military ballots in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, and the first presidential debate
- Sep 2016 – Oct 2016: The made-up "Ohio warehouse" Clinton ballots story
The recurring claim that Somali immigrants are living lavishly on public benefits
The recurring claims about gas prices
- May 2026: "Come down very substantially," the gas-tax holiday, and "peanuts"
- Feb 2026 – Mar 2026: Iran war begins; Trump predicts prices will drop after the war; 172-million-barrel SPR release
- Dec 2025: Trump's year-end address: gasoline "under $2.50 a gallon"
- Jul 2025: $1.99 today in five states
- Sep 2024: Trump's "below $2 a gallon" campaign promise
- Oct 2022: The last pre-midterm oil-reserve release and Biden's "down from over $5 when I took office" claim
- Jun 2022: "Exxon made more money than God," the refiner letter, and the gas-tax holiday
- Nov 2021 – Dec 2021: Gas prices: Trump's "$1.87" claim, Biden's SPR release, and the Keystone XL post
The recurring claim that prices are coming down
- Jul 2026 – Aug 2026: And that's true with everything else
- Dec 2025: The Pennsylvania rally and the prime-time address
- Apr 2025: Trump says egg prices "came down 50%"
- Jun 2024: Biden at the CNN debate: "working to bring down the prices around the kitchen table"
- Mar 2024: Biden's State of the Union, "Inflation has dropped from 9% to 3%"
The recurring promise that prices will come down "on day one"
The recurring promise of a healthcare plan "in two weeks"
- Jun 2019: About two months. Maybe less.
- Mar 2019 – Apr 2019: Trump says GOP will be "the party of health care" and promises a plan with a vote after the 2020 election
- Feb 2017: "Maybe into next year," then "a couple of weeks"
- Mar 2016: Trump campaign releases seven-point health care plan, "Healthcare Reform to Make America Great Again"
The recurring claim that mass-shooting victims and witnesses are "crisis actors"
Pre-election "assassination attempt thwarted" amplification
The recurring claim that vaccines cause autism
The recurring DOGE savings claims
The recurring promise to release the Epstein files
The recurring Trump insults about men's weight and size
The recurring "in two weeks"
The recurring claim that George Soros is paying the protesters
The recurring "welfare queen" claim that recipients are gaming public benefits
The recurring claim that foreign countries pay the tariffs
The recurring claims that wind power is bad, doesn't work, and "doesn't work at night"
The recurring claim that undocumented immigrants get free health care
- Sep 2025 – ongoing: 2025 government shutdown – "Democrats shut down the government for health care for illegal aliens"
- Mar 2025 – Jun 2025: States cut back
- Jul 2024 – Nov 2024: Claims about Kamala Harris (2024)
- Feb 2020: Trump's State of the Union attack on free health care for undocumented immigrants, and California's young-adult Medi-Cal expansion
- Jul 2019 – Aug 2019: Trump campaign ad during Detroit Democratic debates claims Democrats support "free health care" for illegal immigrants
- Jun 2019 – Aug 2019: Democratic debate show of hands
The recurring threats of tariffs and sanctions against longtime allies
The recurring claim that illegal voting decided an election
- May 2022 – Jun 2022: The "2000 Mules" film
- Sep 2021: Cyber Ninjas review of Maricopa County's 2020 ballots is released
- Nov 2020 – Jan 2021: Fraud claims after the 2020 election
- Jan 2019 – Feb 2019: Texas "95,000 noncitizens" on voter rolls
- Jan 2017 – Feb 2017: "3 to 5 million illegal votes" and the New Hampshire "busing" claim
- Nov 2016 – Dec 2016: Millions of people who voted illegally
- Oct 2016: "Rigged election" claims before Election Day