100 days of Trump claims

This is a flip-flop for Trump. Before he was elected, he dismissed the stock-market performance under Obama as “artificial” and “a bubble."

This is false. Trump's proposed ten percent increase is actually relatively modest. In the past 30 years, at least one-third of the time the core defense budget was boosted more than Trump's request--in some cases more than double the percentage requested by Trump.

This is a misleading comparison. A lot has changed in the past century, including the capacity of ships. The U.S. Naval fleet now includes nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, compared to gunboats and small warships of 100 years ago. The Navy, which currently has 275 ships, is on track to grow to just over 300 ships, approximately the size that a bipartisan congressional panel recommended for the current Navy.

The press is reporting reactions to the replacement plan from lawmakers and industry groups from all sides of the political spectrum. Conservative and liberal industry groups have opposed the plan, along with Democrats and some Republican lawmakers, both moderate and conservative.

Trump failed to read the fine print of the LinkedIn Workforce report. The numbers were affected by seasonal hiring. When adjusted for seasonal hiring variations, hiring was down 1.3 percent from January to February, the first full month of Trump's term.

This is false. Only eight former Gitmo detainees "confirmed of reengaging" in terrorist or insurgent activities were released under Obama, and 113 were released under George W. Bush. Although this tweet, sent at 7:04 a.m., was immediately called out as false on Twitter, Trump repeated it on the @POTUS account at 8:03 a.m. Trump tweeted this on the same day from @realDonaldTrump and @POTUS. Therefore, we are counting the two tweets as separate entries in our database.

This is false. Only eight former Gitmo detainees "confirmed of reengaging" in terrorist or insurgent activities were released under Obama, and 113 were released under George W. Bush. Trump first tweeted this at 7:04 a.m. on the @realDonaldTrump account, and it was immediately called out as false on Twitter. But then at 8:03 a.m., he repeated the same tweet on the @POTUS account. Therefore, we are counting the two tweets as separate entries in our database.

Trump again takes credit for a project long in the works before he became president. ExxonMobil has been planning this since 2013.

Trump has a long history of outsourcing a variety of his own products. The Fact Checker has counted a total of 12 countries where Trump products were manufactured (China, the Netherlands, Mexico, India, Turkey, Slovenia, Honduras, Germany, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Vietnam and South Korea).

Trump again takes credit for a project long in the works before he became president. ExxonMobil has been planning this since 2013.

Trump again takes credit for a project long in the works before he became president. ExxonMobil has been planning this since 2013.

Trump keeps taking credit for projects that were long in the works before he became president. For example, he repeatedly claims credit for Ford’s decision to abandon its plans to open a factory in Mexico and instead expand its Michigan plant. But analysts say Ford’s decision has more to do with the company’s long-term goal — particularly, its plans to invest in electric vehicles — than the administration. It’s easier for companies to find highly skilled workers to build new products, such as electric cars, in the United States than in Mexico.

The administration repeatedly used this 300 figure, without any context. That is highly misleading. The 300 figure represents a tiny fraction of all resettled refugees in the United States per year (83,380 on average), and since the refugee program began in 1980 (3 million). Since Sept. 11, 2001, roughly 190,000 refugees were accepted into the United States from the six countries listed in the immigration executive order. The 300 figure represents a fraction — though it is unclear how small or big — of the total open counterterrorism investigations (which could be 1,000 or up to 10,000). And we have no idea what charges are involved, or if these investigations will even result in any charges (or convictions, for that matter).

The FBI and the Democratic National Committee disagree on whether the FBI requested access to the DNC's servers. FBI Director James Comey testified to the Senate Intelligence Committee that the bureau made "multiple requests at different levels" to access DNC's servers, but the DNC said the FBI never requested access.

The size of crowds holding "March 4 Trump" rallies varied, from about 30 people in Indianapolis to about 400 in St. Paul, Minn. Some rallies drew just as many protesters as supporters.

There is no evidence that Obama ordered the wiretapping of Trump's calls. Trump seized on reports in the right-leaning media, but even the reports cited by the White House did not make this allegation.

There is no evidence that Obama ordered the wiretapping of Trump's calls. Trump seized on reports in the right-leaning media, but even the reports cited by the White House did not make this allegation.

There is no evidence that Obama ordered the wiretapping of Trump's calls. Trump seized on reports in the right-leaning media, but even the reports cited by the White House did not make this allegation.

There is no evidence that Obama ordered the wiretapping of Trump's calls. Trump seized on reports in the right-leaning media, but even the reports cited by the White House did not make this allegation.

This is a misleading comparison. Sessions appears to have misled the Senate about his meetings, while the meetings at the White House were recorded in a public log that Trump has now eliminated.

Schwarzenegger said he was leaving of his own accord, blaming animus toward Trump for the show's sagging ratings. “You should think about hiring a new joke writer and a fact checker," Schwarenegger tweeted back.

Trump makes a misleading comparison between Attorney General Jeff Sessions's meetings with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak and Sen. Charles E. Schumer's meeting Vladimir Putin at a pu blic event in 2003. Sessions, who was a Trump campaign surrogate, misled Congress by not disclosing that he met with Kislyak on at least two occasions during the 2016 presidential campaign, including one private meeting at Sessions's Senate office.

Trump makes a misleading comparison between Attorney General Jeff Sessions's meetings with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak and Rep. Nancy Pelosi's 2010 meeting with then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Sessions, a Trump campaign surrogate, misled Congress by not disclosing that he met with Kislyak on at least two occasions during the 2016 presidential campaign, including one private meeting at Sessions's Senate office. Pelosi and other House leaders met with Medvedev, who brought Kislyak and other top Russian officials to the meeting.

The Senate Democrats did hold up Trump's Cabinet picks at one time. But as of Trump's tweet, there were two empty slots; the administration had not sent the rest of the paperwork for one and had not sent a nominee to fill the other slot. Sen. Marco Rubio tweeted the prior evening, on March 2: "After the votes taken earlier this afternoon, the U.S. Senate has now confirmed all of the available Cabinet nominations."

This is a misleading comparison. A lot has changed in the past century, including the capacity of ships. The U.S. Naval fleet now includes nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, compared to gunboats and small warships of 100 years ago. The Navy, which currently has 275 ships, is on track to grow to just over 300 ships, approximately the size that a bipartisan congressional panel recommended for the current Navy.

Trump takes credit for the lowered cost, but the Pentagon had announced cost reductions of roughly $600 million on the F-35 before Trump began meeting with Lockheed Martin’s chief executive. Trump over time keeps increasing the money he allegedly saved.

ICE has always targeted dangerous criminals in enforcement priorities. The recent arrests Trump is referring to did include people who would not have fallen under Obama’s narrower enforcement priorities. But such people — comprising 25 percent of the arrests — had lesser charges and noncriminal convictions and are not the “very, very hardened criminals” that Trump describes.

Trump takes credit for Ford’s decision to abandon its plans to open a factory in Mexico and instead expand its Michigan plant. But analysts say Ford’s decision has more to do with the company’s long-term goal — particularly, its plans to invest in electric vehicles — than the administration. It’s easier for companies to find highly skilled workers to build new products, such as electric cars, in the United States than in Mexico.

This is a flip-flop for Trump. Before he was elected, he dismissed the stock-market performance under Obama as “artificial” and “a bubble."

This is an irrsponsible and false statement. Major news media organizations do not make up sources. That is grounds for firing.

Trump got 8 percent of the African American vote versus 6 percent for Mitt Romney in 2012 and 4 percent for John McCain in 2008. But Romney and McCain were running against the first African American candidate, Obama. Strictly by the numbers, Trump actually did worse among blacks than any Republican running against a white man, though in effect he came close to tying George W. Bush in 2000 and Ronald Reagan in 1984.

The administration has provided no evidence for this claim and NBC News reported that the raid that led to the death of a Navy SEAL "yielded no significant intelligence." The U.S. Central Command in January released a video seized in the raid that purportedly held valuable information — only to later acknowledge that the video was already available online and had not been thoroughly analyzed before its release. A press conference to play up the value of the information was canceled.

Trump is referring to the Waters of the United States rule, which has been on hold since 2015 after legal challenges. As PolitiFact reported, the rule specifically excludes puddles and applies to certain ditches, including ones that could carry pollution downstream.

So Trump incorrectly says the Waters of the United States rule has had a negative impact. The Environmental Protection Agency's 2015 rule spurred legal challenges in courts across the country, alleging that the EPA exceeded the scope of its authority. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued a nationwide stay against enforcement of this rule.

Opponents of the EPA's Waters of the United States rule had argued it would cost taxpayer money and American jobs, the rule has not yet taken effect. So it's unclear what jobs Trump is referring to. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued a nationwide stay against the enforcement of this rule, after legal challenges.

Trump makes it sound like the rancher simply dug a small hole on his land. FactCheck.org took an extensive look at this case, and found it to be much more complicated. The rancher built a dam on a federal waterway without a permit, as required by the Clean Air Act, according to the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers.

Trump did sign an order that he said would result in a lifetime ban on administration officials lobbying for foreign governments. But his five-year ban on lobbying is less than advertised. Trump has originally promised to extend the ban to congressional officials, but he did not. Moreover, the five-year ban applies only to lobbying one’s former agency — not becoming a lobbyist. Moreover, Trump actually weakened some of the language from similar bans under Obama and George W. Bush, and reduced the level of transparency.

The data are mixed on the amount of drugs coming through the borders. The amount of marijuana and cocaine seized at the border continue to decline, but seized amounts of heroin and methamphetamine increased in recent years.

Trump takes undue credit for business decisions made prior to his election. Ford’s decision to abandon its plans to open a factory in Mexico and instead expand its Michigan plant has more to do with the company’s long-term goal — particularly its plans to invest in electric vehicles — than with the administration. Fiat Chrysler plan to invest $1 billion for a factory in Michigan had been in the works for more than a year and had nothing to do with Trump. Japanese company SoftBank announced its $100 billion technology investment fund three weeks before the U.S. elections, when Trump faced a narrow path to victory. Sprint said its hiring plan was a part of a commitment by SoftBank, which owns a controlling stake in Sprint.

Trump takes credit for the lowered cost of the F-35 program, but the Pentagon had announced cost reductions of roughly $600 million before Trump began meeting with Lockheed Martin’s chief executive. Sometimes Trump says he saved $600 million, other times $700 million.

Trump appears to be combining two disputed figures — 28,000 jobs for Keystone XL and 12,000 for the Dakota Access pipeline. As for the steel, workers in Arkansas have already built about half of the high-strength line pipe needed for the project, some 333,000 tons.

ICE has always targeted dangerous criminals in enforcement priorities. The recent arrests Trump is referring to did include people who would not have fallen under Obama’s narrower enforcement priorities. But such people — comprising 25 percent of the arrests — had lesser charges and noncriminal convictions and are not the “bad ones” that Trump describes.

Trump exaggerates the impact of illegal immigration on crime, taxpayer money and jobs. We covered these three points further in our round-up of Trump's address to Congress.

“Welfare” is a broad term and can apply to people who are working but receiving government assistance. If someone is receiving means-tested assistance, it doesn’t necessarily mean they are not working.

This is an absurd Four-Pinocchio claim, based on a real number. The 94 million "not in labor force" that Trump refers to are based on Bureau of Labor Statistics data from 2015. It turns out that 93 percent do not want a job at all. The picture that emerges from a study of the data shows that the 95 million consists mostly of people who are retired, students, stay-at-home parents or disabled.

Trump is lumping together the wars in Iraq (in the Middle East) and Afghanistan (in South Asia), which together cost about $1.6 trillion from 2001 to 2014. He is also adding in estimates of future spending, such as interest on the debt and veterans' care for the next three decades.

In 2016, there was an uptick in the homicide rate in the 30 largest cities. One outlier city -- Chicago -- was responsible for 43.7 percent of the total increase in homicide rates in 2016. Seven people were shot and killed in Chicago on Feb. 22, the deadliest day in the city so far this year. Overall, violent crime is on a decades-long decline, since the height of the crack cocaine epidemic in the early 1990s.

Trump likes to use anecdotes as evidence for associating violent crimes with illegal immigration, telling stories of victims of homicide by undocumented immigrants. Clearly, stories like this exist. But the vast majority of unauthorized immigrants do not fit Trump’s description of aggravated felons, whose crimes include murder.

NATO’s guideline, established in 2006, is that defense expenditures should amount to 2 percent of each country’s gross domestic product. In 2016, only four countries besides the United States met that standard, but NATO documents also show that defense spending has increased about three percent from 2015 to 2016. In any case, the money would not be going to the United States or even necessarily to NATO; this is money that countries would spend to bolster their own military.

Trump plays a similar trick as he did with the figure of 94 million people not in the labor force. He’s again counting people who do not want to work, such as stay-at-home parents, the disabled and students. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, only 1 in 25 people in that 25-54 age group looked for work and could not find it.

This is false. Trump's proposed ten percent increase is actually relatively modest. In the past 30 years, at least one-third of the time the core defense budget was boosted more than Trump's request--in some cases more than double the percentage requested by Trump.

Actually, these stories have been covered a lot. The Washington Post's media columnist Erik Wemple took a close look and found that the media -- especially local outlets in immigrant-heavy communities like Phoenix -- meticulously chronicles crimes committed by undocumented immigrants.

Harley-Davidson assembles its bikes in the U.S., but various parts of the bike are manufactured overseas -- an example of how American companies participate in the international economy.

India imposes a 100 percent import tariff on motorcycles. But the company largely has been able to get around the tariff by assembling its bikes in India, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.

Trump cherry-picks numbers from a lengthy and detailed report that used several different models of measuring the economic and fiscal impacts of immigrants, showing both the costs and benefits. The report found that first-generation immigrants incur costs to the government that are later balanced out by their descendants for a net positive to the U.S. economy.

Trump made this claim several times in one speech. Trump is lumping together the wars in Iraq (in the Middle East) and Afghanistan (in South Asia), which together cost about $1.6 trillion from 2001 to 2014. He is also adding in estimates of future spending, such as interest on the debt and veterans' care for the next three decades.

Trump takes credit for the lowered cost, but the Pentagon had announced cost reductions of roughly $600 million on the F-35 before Trump began meeting with Lockheed Martin’s chief executive. Trump over time keeps increasing the money he allegedly saved.

In 2016, there was an uptick in the homicide rate in the 30 largest cities. One outlier city -- Chicago -- was responsible for 43.7 percent of the total increase in homicide rates in 2016. Seven people were shot and killed in Chicago on Feb. 22, the deadliest day in the city so far this year. Overall, violent crime is on a decades-long decline, since the height of the crack cocaine epidemic in the early 1990s.

ICE has always targeted dangerous criminals in enforcement priorities. The recent arrests Trump is referring to did include people who would not have fallen under Obama’s narrower enforcement priorities. But such people — comprising 25 percent of the arrests — had lesser charges and noncriminal convictions and are not the “very, very hardened criminals” that Trump describes.

To put it in context, the number of people affected by premium increases is just one-fourteenth the size of the employment-based health-insurance market. Moreover, some of the initial steps taken by the Trump administration have helped worsen the problems in the individual insurance market — allowing Trump to create a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The New York Times did not apologize to its subscribers for its coverage of Trump.

Trump cherry-picks data from Arizona, the state hit the hardest by 2017 premium increases under the Affordable Care Act. The average increase for the second-lowest-cost silver plan (which is used as the benchmark to calculate government subsidies) is 25 percent. A few states, such as Indiana, actually saw a decrease.

Trumps slips in the word "exemption," which allows him to inflate the figure. Only 6.5 million taxpayers paid the so-called “shared responsibility” payments in 2015. That’s actually a decrease from 2014, when 8 million taxpayers made a payment. Another 12.7 million taxpayers received an exemption but the main reason is because they live in a state that choose not to accept the Medicaid expansion in Obamacare.

Trump cites no evidence that the battle for Democratic National Committee chair, won narrowly by former Labor Secretary Tom Perez, was rigged. Indeed, there is no evidence and Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.), who backed Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), rejected Trump's claim. "No, he doesn't have a point," Sanders said when asked about the tweet.

Trump is falsely labeling nonpartisan investigations as "fake news" hyped by Democrats. The CIA concluded in 2016 that Russia intervened in the U.S. presidential election to help elect Trump, an assessment backed up by FBI Director James B. Comey and then-Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. On Jan. 6, the intelligence community released a declassified report expressing "high confidence" in this judgement. Senate and House committees led by Republicans have begun their own investigations, and at least one Republican lawmaker has called for the appointment of a special prosecutor.

Trump is citing such a narrow window of time that the statistics he’s pointing to don’t mean very much. The level of debt fluctuates day to day and week to week, depending on seasonal changes in growth and when the government makes payments, collects tax revenue, issues new debt and other debt matures — making the data very susceptible to cherry-picking. Using the same logic, you could claim that after four days in office Trump increased outstanding public debt by more than $10 billion, and that Obama had reduced it by $6 billion.

Trump is referring to a Washington Post article that disclosed that then-National security adviser Michael Flynn privately discussed U.S. sanctions against Russia with that country’s ambassador to the United States during the month before President Trump took office, contrary to public assertions by Trump officials. That article prompted a firestorm that led to Flynn’s firing by Trump, because it turned out that Flynn had misled Vice President Pence and other administration officials about whether he had discussed sanctions. The article cited information provided by “nine current and former officials, who were in senior positions at multiple agencies at the time of the calls.” (Calls by the Russian ambassador are monitored by intelligence agencies.) No White House official has disputed the accuracy of the article – and indeed, it resulted in Flynn’s departure from the administration.

Trump listed five mainstream media organizations –The New York Times, NBC, ABC, CBS and CNN – as the “fake news media” and declared they are the enemy of the American people. By listing major media organizations as the enemy, Trump was clearly making a statement about the broader news media.

Trump says the system was rigged against Sanders because of the superdelegates. In June 2016, when the media began declaring Clinton the presumptive nominee, Clinton was on track to win the nomination even without superdelegates. We dug into this in depth in a separate fact-check.

ICE has always targeted dangerous criminals in enforcement priorities. The recent arrests Trump is referring to did include people who would not have fallen under Obama’s narrower enforcement priorities. But such people — comprising 25 percent of the arrests — had lesser charges and noncriminal convictions and are not the “bad dudes” that Trump describes.

Trump is lumping together the wars in Iraq (in the Middle East) and Afghanistan (in South Asia), which together cost about $1.6 trillion from 2001 to 2014. He is also adding in estimates of future spending, such as interest on the debt and veterans' care for the next three decades.

Trump essentially repeats a false GOP talking point that previously earned Four Pinocchios. The Affordable Care Act is estimated to have added 20 million people to the health-insurance rolls, while the number of people who had to switch out of pre-ACA plans is a fraction of that.

Federal agencies can’t endorse political candidates. The unions representing Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and Border Patrol agents did endorse Trump. Both groups said Trump was their first-ever endorsement. But they did not do so unanimously. The National Border Patrol Council endorsement was based just on the vote of 11 union leaders, which sparked controversy among union members. Agents in El Paso, in a 14-to-13 vote, narrowly failed to have the local union disavow the endorsement.

In 2016, there was an uptick in the homicide rate in the 30 largest cities. One outlier city -- Chicago -- was responsible for 43.7 percent of the total increase in homicide rates in 2016. Seven people were shot and killed in Chicago on Feb. 22, the deadliest day in the city so far this year. Overall, violent crime is on a decades-long decline, since the height of the crack cocaine epidemic in the early 1990s.

Trump’s attack on NAFTA is over the top. It is often difficult to separate out the impact of trade agreements on jobs, compared to other, broader economic trends. But the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service in 2015 concluded the “net overall effect of NAFTA on the U.S. economy appears to have been relatively modest, primarily because trade with Canada and Mexico accounts for a small percentage of U.S. GDP,” though it noted “there were worker and firm adjustment costs as the three countries adjusted to more open trade and investment among their economies.”

Trump constantly changes the number of jobs that might be created by the pipeline. This is a high-end estimate which we have previously given Two Pinocchios.

Trump takes credit for Ford’s decision to abandon its plans to open a factory in Mexico and instead expand its Michigan plant. But analysts say Ford’s decision has more to do with the company’s long-term goal — particularly, its plans to invest in electric vehicles — than the administration. It’s easier for companies to find highly skilled workers to build new products, such as electric cars, in the United States than in Mexico.

“Welfare” is a broad term and can apply to people who are working but receiving government assistance. If someone is receiving means-tested assistance, it doesn’t necessarily mean they are not working.

Trump had referred to rising crime rates in Sweden, but the country's overall rate has fallen in recent years. Sweden has welcomed refugees and immigrants, but Swedish crime experts do not agree that the country's immigration policies are linked to crime. Just two days after Trump made his false claim, riots broke out in a predominantly immigrant neighborhood in Stockholm, the country’s capital. That neighborhood was the scene of riots in 2010 and 2013, stemming from anger directed at the influx of refugees and migrants into the country.

If immigration arrests continue at the current pace under Trump, he is on track to meet arrest rates in the earlier years of Obama's administration before Obama narrowed immigration enforcement priorities.

It's not that hard to find countries with which the U.S. runs a trade surplus in goods. At the top of the list are Hong Kong, the Netherlands, the United Arab Emirates, Belgium and Australia.

Trump once again takes credit for the lowered cost, but the Pentagon had announced cost reductions of roughly $600 million before Trump began meeting with Lockheed Martin’s chief executive. Sometimes Trump says he saved $600 million, other times $700 million.

Though human trafficking is a major issue in some regions of the world, experts and available evidence indicate trafficking for sexual exploitation is not a serious problem in the United States. A recent study funded by the Justice Department concluded the total number of juveniles in the sex trade in the United States was about 9,000 to 10,000.

The United States has significant nuclear weapons capacity, more than it needs for its security. Trump appears to be referring to a temporary and insignificant gap in the number of deployed weapons between Russia and the United States. Under the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, which Trump says is "one-sided," by February 2018, neither country can have more than 1,550 warheads on 700 deployed launchers and no more than 800 total deployed and non-deployed launchers.

Cohn, the director of the National Economic Council, sold about $220 million in Goldman Sachs stock before joining the administration. He also received a $65 million payment that was tied to future performance. Given that the capital gains tax rate is capped at 20 percent, there is no way Cohn paid $200 million in tax on a $285 million payout, particularly because he can defer capital gains if the proceeds are invested in approved securities such as Treasury bonds.

From the context of his remarks on the federal budget, Trump is referring to the Lockheed F-35 program and also seems to be adding in a pending contract for a new Air Force One. Again, he is taking credit for something that had already been negotiated, a claim that had previously earned him Four Pinocchios. The Pentagon had already announced cost reductions of roughly $600 million before Trump had met with Lockheed’s chief executive. The contract with Boeing for Air Force One had not been negotiated.

Since his presidential campaign, Trump was asked repeatedly to address anti-Semitic incidents and other racial or religious harassment incidents. As The Fix blog found, many of his answers left something to be desired.

Trump referred to rising crime rates in Sweden, but the country's overall rate has fallen in recent years. Sweden has welcomed refugees and immigrants, but Swedish crime experts do not agree that the country's immigration policies are linked to crime.

Trump referred to rising crime rates in Sweden, but the country's overall rate has fallen in recent years. Sweden has welcomed refugees and immigrants, but Swedish crime experts do not agree that the country's immigration policies are linked to crime.

It is unclear what stories Trump is referring to here, but mainstream news organizations do not publish articles with “no sources” and certainly do not “make them up in most cases.” That is grounds for firing. Certainly, sources can be misinformed, and respected news organizations strive to correct or update stories if a mistake has been made.

Trump selectively quotes from Jefferson here, who for most of his life was a fierce defender of the need for a free press. When Jefferson wrote to 17-year-old John Novell, urging him to avoid a career in journalism, he was embittered by reports spread by his political opponents that he had slept with Sally Hemings, one of his slaves. Today, most historians now believe she was the mother of six of his children.

Ford’s decision has more to do with the company’s long-term goal — particularly its plans to invest in electric vehicles — than with the administration. Meanwhile, the January jobs report, showing 230,000 jobs were created, reflects the last month of the Obama administration. The data was collected in early January, when Obama was still president.

Trump appears to be combining two disputed figures — 28,000 jobs for Keystone XL and 12,000 for the Dakota Access Pipeline. We have looked closely at the Keystone numbers, and the same methodological issues appear to apply to the Dakota estimates. The actual number of Keystone construction jobs, for instance, is just 3,900 on an annualized basis — and other jobs have already been created (such as for building high-strength line pipe.) In the context of the U.S. economy, which just in January added 230,000 jobs, these are not many jobs.

Trump is exaggerating here. Boeing only had a $170 million contract to begin designing a replacement for Air Force One, and the cost of the project had not been set. The Defense Department’s five-year plan indicated a cost of $2.9 billion over the next five years for design and development. It’s logical to assume at least another $1 billion in additional expenses to complete and procure the aircraft. An estimate of $4 billion — for design, testing and manufacture of at least two jets — was not completely out of line. But the budget was subject to approval by Congress and the actual design of the aircraft. So Trump is taking credit for cutting a price that had not been negotiated yet.

Trump is referring to the Lockheed F-35 program. Again, he is taking credit for something that had already been negotiated, a claim that had previously earned him Four Pinocchios. The Pentagon had already announced cost reductions of roughly $600 million before Trump had met with Lockheed’s chief executive.

“Inner cities” is not a category by which crime is measured, and Trump often uses this term to refer to large, urban cities. In 2016, there was an uptick in the homicide rate in the 30 largest cities. One outlier city -- Chicago -- was responsible for 43.7 percent of the total increase in homicide rates in 2016. Overall, violent crime is on a decades-long decline since the height of the crack cocaine epidemic in the early 1990s.

Four countries were identified by Congress, in a bill signed by Obama, and then the Obama administration added three more. But Obama — and Democrats in Congress — wanted to require greater visa scrutiny of people who had traveled to those countries. When given a chance, the Obama administration specifically rejected the citizenship-based restrictions that Trump ordered. So there were significant differences in the approach.

This was a very strange comment. Nothing had happened the night before in Sweden, as Swedes quickly noted.

This is false. The vetting of refugees is careful and takes about two years, including FBI screening, Department of Homeland Security interviews and extensive security and background checks.

Trump cherry-picks data from Arizona, the state hit the hardest by 2017 premium increases under the Affordable Care Act. The average increase for the second-lowest-cost silver plan (which is used as the benchmark to calculate government subsidies) is 25 percent. A few states, such as Indiana, actually saw a decrease.

To put it in context, the number of people affected by premium increases is just one-fourteenth the size of the employment-based health-insurance market. Moreover, some of the initial steps taken by the Trump administration have helped worsen the problems in the individual insurance market — allowing Trump to create a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The economy was in pretty good shape when Trump became president, especially compared with the economic crisis that Obama inherited in 2009. In January 2009, coinciding with the last labor report of the George W. Bush administration, nearly 800,000 jobs disappeared, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, compared with the nearly 230,000 jobs added in January 2017. (Trump has given himself credit for the January numbers, but the data was collected when Obama still held office.)

This is a flip-flop for Trump. Before he was elected, he dismissed the stock-market performance under Obama as “artificial” and “a bubble."

Trump repeatedly takes credit for business decisions unrelated to his presidency. Ford’s decision has more to do with the company’s long-term goal — particularly its plans to invest in electric vehicles — than with the administration. Meanwhile, the January jobs report, showing 230,000 jobs were created, reflects the last month of the Obama administration. The data was collected in early January, when Obama was still president.

Trump has a tendency to focus only on polls that are good for him. Rasmussen has a right-leaning bias and earns a C+ grade from FiveThirtyEight.com. Other polls show Trump with significantly lower approval ratings, such as Gallup (40 percent) and the Pew Research Center (39 percent).

This is a flip-flop for Trump. Before he was elected, he dismissed the stock-market performance under Obama as “artificial” and “a bubble."

Trump keeps giving himself credit for business decisions made before he became president. Ford’s decision has more to do with the company’s long-term goal — particularly its plans to invest in electric vehicles — than with the administration. Here’s what Ford chief executive Mark Fields said about the company’s decision to abandon plans to open a factory in Mexico: “The reason that we are not building the new plant, the primary reason, is just demand has gone down for small cars.”

Trump indicated he was backing up this statement by noting that “jobs are pouring out of the country. ... The Middle East is a disaster. North Korea.” The state of foreign policy is open to interpretation — Trump claimed he was developing “a plan for the defeat of ISIS,” the terrorist group in Iraq and Syria. But the economy was in pretty good shape when Trump became president, especially compared with the economic crisis that Obama inherited in 2009. In January 2009, coinciding with the last labor report of the George W. Bush administration, nearly 800,000 jobs disappeared, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, compared with the nearly 230,000 jobs added in January 2017. (Trump has given himself credit for the January numbers, but the data was collected when Obama still held office.)

Trump was wrong on the size of his electoral college win. Of the nine presidential elections since 1984, Trump’s electoral college win ranks seventh. When a reporter pointed out his error, Trump first indicated that he was talking about Republican candidates. But George H.W. Bush received 426 electoral votes in 1988. Trump’s response: “I don’t know; I was given that information.”

There is limited research on the impact of sanctuary policies and crime. And the research that does exist challenges Trump’s claim. There’s no official definition of “sanctuary,” but it generally refers to rules restricting state and local governments from alerting federal authorities about people who may be in the country illegally. A handful of studies looked at whether there is a causation between sanctuary cities and crime. They either found no statistically significant impact of sanctuary policies on crime, or a reduction in crime due to immigrant-friendly policing strategies.

Trump is referring to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, which ruled against reinstating his travel ban. But there are other ways to slice the data, and it’s important to put this number into context. Most cases reviewed by the Supreme Court are reversed, and the 9th Circuit rules on more cases in general. The 9th Circuit’s reversal rate was usually higher than the average, but not always the highest. None of the data supports Trump’s contention that the court is “in chaos” and “in turmoil.”

Trump, in saying “thousands and thousands of jobs,” leaves himself some wiggle room here. (He’d previously incorrectly said 28,000 jobs.) Moreover, some of these jobs have already been created. Workers in Arkansas, for instance, have already built about half of the high-strength line pipe needed for the project, some 333,000 tons.

Trump indicated that he wasn’t sure if this assertion is correct. It is not. The public’s trust in the media has certainly fallen over the years. But a 2016 Gallup poll shows that Congress is viewed positively by 9 percent of respondents, compared with 20 percent for newspapers and 21 percent for television. That’s not a high confidence level — besides Congress, only “big business” ranks lower than the media — but it’s enough to make Trump’s claim incorrect.

WikiLeaks actually released hundreds of thousands of classified State Department cables, in a significant blow to U.S. diplomacy.

Trump overstates the disclosure about Clinton reportedly getting a single debate question. During the Democratic primaries, a debate was held in Flint, Mich., to focus on the water crisis. Donna Brazile, then a CNN analyst, sent an email to the Clinton campaign saying that a woman with a rash from lead poisoning was going to ask what Clinton as president could do the help the people of Flint. There’s no indication Clinton was told this information, but in any case it’s a pretty obvious question for a debate being held in Flint.

Trump’s claim suggests the State Department had sole approval authority on a uranium rights deal with a company largely owned by Russia’s nuclear energy agency. But the State Department is one of nine agencies in the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States to vet and sign off on all U.S. transactions involving foreign governments. As we’ve noted before, there is no evidence Clinton herself got involved in the deal personally, and it is highly questionable that this deal even rose to the level of the secretary of state. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission also needed to approve, and did approve, the transfer.

Trump appears to have forgotten that imprecise wording in the executive order led to confusion over whether U.S. permanent residents — green-card holders — were also banned from returning to the United States. The White House counsel later issued guidance making clear that they were not covered. The Court of Appeals later said that the counsel’s statement was not a sufficient fix.

Trump met with the Russian ambassador before an April 2016 speech, according to news reports. He's being misleading when he says he has "nothing to do with Russia." Trump repeatedly sought deals in Russia. In 1987, he went to Moscow to find a site for a luxury hotel; no deal emerged. In 1996, he sought to build a condominium complex in Russia; that also did not succeed. In 2005, Trump signed a one-year deal with a New York development company to explore a Trump Tower in Moscow, but the effort fizzled.

“Inner cities” is not a category by which crime is measured, and Trump often uses this term to refer to large, urban cities. In 2016, there was an uptick in the homicide rate in the 30 largest cities. One outlier city -- Chicago -- was responsible for 43.7 percent of the total increase in homicide rates in 2016. Overall, violent crime is on a decades-long decline, since the height of the crack cocaine epidemic in the early 1990s.

This is a flip-flop for Trump. Before becoming president, Trump heartily endorsed WikiLeaks and the release of classified information, particularly about his then-rival Hillary Clinton. During a July 2016 news conference, Trump even called on Russia to hack Clinton’s email account. Now, facing information leaks out of his own administration (including information that led to the resignation of national security adviser Michael Flynn), Trump decided it’s a bad thing.

This is a flip-flop for Trump. Before becoming president, Trump heartily endorsed WikiLeaks and the release of classified information, particularly about his then-rival Hillary Clinton. During a July 2016 news conference, Trump even called on Russia to hack Clinton’s email account. Now, facing information leaks out of his own administration (including information that led to the resignation of national security adviser Michael Flynn), Trump decided it’s a bad thing.

This is a flip-flop for Trump. Before he was elected, he dismissed the stock-market performance under Obama as “artificial” and “a bubble."

It is false that these newspapers did not call for comment.

Trump’s order, signed on the evening of Friday, Jan. 27, sparked delays, confusion and protests in airports that night and throughout the weekend. Delta’s computer glitch on the night of Sunday, Jan. 29, led to cancellations that night and into Monday morning — days after the first protests and delays due to Trump’s order.

To put it in context, the number of people affected by premium increases is just one-fourteenth the size of the employment-based health-insurance market. Moreover, some of the initial steps taken by the Trump administration have helped worsen the problems in the individual insurance market — allowing Trump to create a self-fulfilling prophecy.

This is not how federal funding for public universities works.

Trump always uses too high an estimate, $150 billion, and makes it sound like the United States cut a check to Iran. But this was always Iran’s money. Iran had billions of dollars in assets that were frozen in foreign banks around the globe because of international sanctions over its nuclear program. The Treasury Department estimated that once Iran fulfilled other obligations, it would have about $55 billion left. The Central Bank of Iran said the number was actually $32 billion. And it's a stretch to say Iran was "ready to collapse.”

This story was posted on Trump's Facebook account, but it turned out to be fake news. Kuwait “categorically denies these claims,” the country’s foreign ministry said. Trump’s Facebook post has not been taken down.

Trump is referring to the estimated 1,250 refugees and asylum-seekers that the United States, under Obama, agreed to accept from an Australian detention center. Refugees and asylum-seekers who arrive illegally by boat in Australia are called “illegal maritime arrivals.” They can apply for two types of temporary visas, and some may qualify to apply for permanent residency.

There’s not enough research and no medical consensus to determine whether autism is on the rise. The 2016 rates were consistent with the last published rate in 2014. The rate has gotten worse since 2000, but it's unclear how much of that is due to greater awareness, early detection, and the expansion of disorders included on the autism spectrum.

This is a flip-flop for Trump. Before becoming president, Trump heartily endorsed WikiLeaks and the release of classified information, particularly about his then-rival Hillary Clinton. During a July 2016 news conference, Trump even called on Russia to hack Clinton’s email account. Now, facing information leaks out of his own administration (including information that led to the resignation of national security adviser Michael Flynn), Trump decided it’s a bad thing.

ICE has always targeted dangerous criminals in enforcement priorities. The recent arrests Trump is referring to did include people who would not have fallen under Obama’s narrower enforcement priorities. But such people — comprising 25 percent of the arrests — had lesser charges and noncriminal convictions and are not the “very, very hardened criminals” that Trump describes.

Trump is referring to the recent arrests of undocumented immigrants convicted of crimes (“criminal aliens”). Trump takes credit for fulfilling his campaign promise of cracking down on illegal immigration, but these arrests are routine. ICE has always targeted dangerous criminals in enforcement priorities. The recent arrests, however, did include people who would not have fallen under narrowed enforcement priorities under Obama. Still, 25 percent of the arrests were of people who had lesser charges and noncriminal convictions and are not the gang members or drug dealers that he describes.

This is not true. In an interview with Erin Burnett, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) made a joke about Trump labeling CNN as “fake news.” After he made the joke, the audio cut off, and CNN cut to a commercial. Upon returning from the commercial, Burnett picked up where they left: “Senator, you were just talking — joking — about CNN, fake news.” Then Sanders went on to criticize Trump’s labeling of CNN as “fake news.”

Trump exaggerates by saying that Ivanka Trump was "abused and treated so badly by the media." His tweet was referring to news coverage about Nordstrom dropping her brand. There was no evidence that Nordstrom acted out of political considerations, or that news coverage attacked Ivanka Trump over the news. The company has maintained for months (including in internal emails) that it will base its decisions on sales performance. Internal records reviewed by the Wall Street Journal show the sales of Ivanka Trump's brand fell 32 percent at Nordstrom last fiscal year.

Trump keeps giving himself credit for business decisions made before he became president. Ford’s decision has more to do with the company’s long-term goal — particularly its plans to invest in electric vehicles — than with the administration. Here’s what Ford chief executive Mark Fields said about the company’s decision to abandon plans to open a factory in Mexico: “The reason that we are not building the new plant, the primary reason, is just demand has gone down for small cars.”

To put it in context, the number of people affected by premium increases is just one-fourteenth the size of the employment-based health-insurance market. Moreover, some of the initial steps taken by the Trump administration have helped worsen the problems in the individual insurance market — allowing Trump to create a self-fulfilling prophecy.

In 2015, Iraq produced about 4 million barrels a day, enough crude oil to fill more than 700 Trump Towers. Securing all of the oil, including in northern Iraq where the Islamic State exists, would require a military force larger than the one that invaded Iraq in 2003. It would also be considered a war crime.

Trump is lumping together the wars in Iraq (in the Middle East) and Afghanistan (in South Asia), which together cost about $1.6 trillion from 2001 to 2014. He is also adding in estimates of future spending, such as interest on the debt and veterans' care for the next three decades.

Trump takes credit for Ford’s decision to abandon its plans to open a factory in Mexico and instead expand its Michigan plant. But analysts say Ford’s decision has more to do with the company’s long-term goal — particularly, its plans to invest in electric vehicles — than the administration. It’s easier for companies to find highly skilled workers to build new products, such as electric cars, in the United States than in Mexico.

Trump is wrong that the Connecticut Democrat had misrepresented Gorsuch’s remarks. Blumenthal’s account was immediately confirmed by Ron Bonjean, a member of the group guiding the judge through his confirmation process on behalf of the Trump administration.

Cuomo’s first question to Blumenthal was: “What is your response to the president of the United States saying you should not be believed because you misrepresented your military record in the past?” Blumenthal ducked the question, but contrary to Trump’s tweet, the issue was raised.

There is no evidence that Nordstrom acted out of political considerations. The company has maintained for months (including in internal emails) that it will base its decisions on sales performance. Internal records reviewed by the Wall Street Journal show the sales of Ivanka Trump's brand fell 32 percent at Nordstrom last fiscal year.

Trump often gets this statistic wrong. In 2015, there was the biggest percentage jump in a single year since 1970-1971, or 45 years ago. It was not the highest rate in 45 or 47 years. Overall, the rate of homicides and violent crimes are back down to the levels they were 45 years ago, and are at about half the rates at their peak in the 1980s and early 1990s.

As the Toronto Star's Daniel Dale notes, there were protests against the pipeline before it was granted approvals.

Trump now claims he doesn’t know Russian President Vladimir Putin, but in the past, he had claimed he had spoken to him. Trump’s assertion he has “no deals in Russia” is misleading at best, since Trump has actively pursued deals there and has relied on Russia investors. As for the nuclear agreement with Iran, that agreement was forged with the assistance of diplomats from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, China, Russia and the European Union. Obama did not negotiate it alone.

This is false. Bill Clinton did not have a cabinet in place until March 11, George H.W. Bush had to wait till March 17 and Obama did not get a full cabinet until April 28. Trump would not have grounds to complain that at this point he has fewer Cabinet members confirmed than his predecessors. While Democrats have put up roadblocks, part of the reason for the delay is because paperwork has been slow in coming from some of Trump’s wealthier nominees.

Trump takes credit for the lowered cost, but the Pentagon had announced cost reductions of roughly $600 million before Trump began meeting with Lockheed Martin’s chief executive.

The press is reporting these cases. The White House later clarified to say Trump was referring to attacks that were underreported.

Trump always uses too high an estimate, $150 billion, and makes it sound like the United States cut a check to Iran. But this was always Iran’s money. Iran had billions of dollars in assets that were frozen in foreign banks around the globe because of international sanctions over its nuclear program. The Treasury Department estimated that once Iran fulfilled other obligations, it would have about $55 billion left. The Central Bank of Iran said the number was actually $32 billion.

This is false and facile. The terrorist group is the direct result of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, which Trump had supported. The civil war that started in Syria in 2011 breathed new life into what had become a moribund organization. The conflict in Syria created a perfect vacuum in terms of governance, and so the civil war became an opportunity for the restoration of the organization. ISIS then saw opportunity to rebound in Iraq. One factor was the withdrawal of U.S. troops. But there was also rampant mismanagement by the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, which greatly degraded the Iraqi military and exacerbated tensions between Sunnis and Shiites.

This odd tweet appeared aimed at reassuring Trump supporters after polls from CBS News, CNN/ORC, Gallup and Quinnipiac University showed majorities of Americans opposed to the order and its provisions. (Other polls indicated support for Trump’s order.) In the 2016 presidential election, while polls played down Trump’s chances of winning the electoral college, most nationwide polls actually were close to mark. The RealClearPolitics average showed Clinton ahead by 2.1 percentage points — exactly the margin she achieved in her popular-vote victory.

The Times did not apologize to its subscribers for its coverage of Trump. Both the Times and The Post have seen spikes in audience and subscribers.

Trump’s figures on the scope of the travel ban were ludicrously low. The universe of people likely affected by the travel suspension was around 60,000, according to the State Department — not 109. The White House later admitted the 109 figure reflected only the number of people who were affected by the ban and were in-flight at the time the order was signed

The payment was connected to a $1.7 billion settlement of claims with Iran announced by the State Department, in which $400 million was always Iran’s money. (The rest was negiotiated interest.) In the 1970s, the then-pro-Western Iranian government under the shah paid $400 million for U.S. military equipment. But the equipment was never delivered because the two countries broke off relations after the seizure of American hostages at the U.S. Embassy in Iran. Trump says the United States has nothing to show for it, but the money was transferred on the same day four Americans being held in Iran were released, though the Obama administration denied there was any connection.

There is limited research on the impact of sanctuary policies and crime. And the research that does exist challenges Trump’s claim. There’s no official definition of “sanctuary,” but it generally refers to rules restricting state and local governments from alerting federal authorities about people who may be in the country illegally. A handful of studies looked at whether there is a causation between sanctuary cities and crime. They either found no statistically significant impact of sanctuary policies on crime, or a reduction in crime due to immigrant-friendly policing strategies.

This is a fantasy, worthy of Four Pinocchios. Trump is obsessed with how he lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes, and so he keeps making this claim even though there is no evidence to support it.

False. There is zero evidence of his early opposition to the invasion.

The Times did not apologize to its subscribers for its coverage of Trump. Both the Times and The Post have seen spikes in audience and subscribers.

Trump appears to referring to a news story he posted on his Facebook account — that Kuwait had issued “its own Trump-esque visa ban for five Muslim-majority countries.” Trump added: “Smart!” But it turned out this was fake news. Kuwait “categorically denies these claims,” the country’s foreign ministry said. Trump’s Facebook post has not been taken down.

Trump tweeted a number of critical comments about the “so-called judge” who halted the president’s travel ban of citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries. The judiciary was established in the U.S. Constitution as a third branch of government (along with the executive and legislative branches), part of the complex system of checks and balances that ensures the continuation of democracy. Marbury v. Madison, a Supreme Court case decided more than 200 years ago, helped establish the notion of judicial review and cemented the notion that the judiciary was equal in power to the president and Congress.

There is little evidence that the ruling halting Trump’s order has allowed “very bad and dangerous people” to pour into the country. The practical effect of the order was to restore visas and refugee admissions. Being accepted as a refugee in the United States is a difficult, lengthy process. Obtaining a U.S. visa generally requires an in-person interview, unless you are a citizen of one of 38 countries that participate in the visa-waiver program. Under a 2015 law, however, four of the seven countries covered in the ban require even dual citizens to have an in-person interview.

Trump seems to be citing a segment of Sean Hannity’s show, during which Hannity questioned whether there was a paid effort to galvanize protesters showing up at airports in the wake of Trump’s immigration executive order. But there’s no evidence there were paid protesters at airports. There were reports that a group called “Demand Protest” was paying people to protest against Trump on the day of his inauguration, but Snopes.com debunked that claim.

If Trump were just talking about all business loans, his statement would be wrong. Commercial lending is at record highs. The picture is murkier if he were referring only to small businesses, as the White House claims. Trump specifically mentioned the “rules and regulations” of Dodd-Frank. The law was not intended to target community banks, and it carved out many exemptions. But regulatory oversight appears to have become tougher, so a case could be made that the post-Dodd-Frank regulatory environment made it harder for community banks to make small-business loans.

Many countries — but not the United States — have a value-added tax, in which tax is collected at each stage in the production or distribution of a product or service. But with refunds, the burden is really paid by the final consumer. Moreover, the VAT also affects domestic producers. In terms of tariffs, it is incorrect the United States charges “nothing or little.” The United States imposes tariffs on Chinese goods, but they are not as high as Chinese tariffs on U.S. goods.

Trump gives himself credit for the January numbers, but the data was collected when Obama still held office.

Trump and his administration have quibbled with the news media’s use of the word “ban” to describe the executive order. But Trump himself called it a ban.

Trump got 8 percent of the African American vote versus 6 percent for Mitt Romney in 2012 and 4 percent for John McCain in 2008. But Romney and McCain were running against the first African American candidate, Obama. Strictly by the numbers, Trump actually did worse among blacks than any Republican running against a white man, though in effect he came close to tying George W. Bush in 2000 and Ronald Reagan in 1984.

Trump is referring to the estimated 1,250 (not “thousands”) refugees and asylum-seekers that the United States, under Obama, agreed to accept from an Australian detention center. Refugees and asylum-seekers who arrive illegally by boat in Australia are called “illegal maritime arrivals.” They can apply for two types of temporary visas, and some may qualify to apply for permanent residency.

Trump presents an unbalanced figure. Various organizations have come up with similar estimates on the cost of regulations. But there is an important element missing in the use of this somewhat sketchy figure — the benefit side of the analysis. Every regulation has costs — but also benefits.

This is a flip-flop for Trump. Before becoming president, Trump heartily endorsed WikiLeaks and the release of classified information, particularly about his then-rival Hillary Clinton. During a July 2016 news conference, Trump even called on Russia to hack Clinton’s email account. Now, facing information leaks out of his own administration (including information that led to the resignation of national security adviser Michael Flynn), Trump decided it’s a bad thing.

Actually, The Post is doing great. The Times, like The Post, has seen spikes in audience and subscribers.

His rhetoric is way out of date. Not only is the United States not being hurt by China’s current currency manipulation, China is also not devaluing its currency anymore. In fact, China is selling foreign currency to prop up its own, in an effort to prevent the yuan from depreciating further and destabilizing the Chinese and global economy.

The Trump White House’s figures on the scope of the travel ban were ludicrously low. The universe of people likely affected by the travel suspension was around 60,000, according to the State Department — not 109. The White House later admitted the 109 figure reflected only the number of people who were affected by the ban and were in-flight at the time the order was signed.

Trump takes credit for the lowered cost, but the Pentagon had announced cost reductions of roughly $600 million before Trump began meeting with Lockheed Martin’s chief executive.

It typically takes weeks or months to get a tourist visa to enter the United States. It certainly would take months for “bad guys,” presumably with records that would take longer for background checks, to receive a tourist visa.

This was a facile claim, as there were many differences. Obama responded to an actual threat — the discovery that two Iraqi refugees had been implicated in bombmaking in Iraq that had targeted U.S. troops. Second, Obama did not announce a ban on visa applications -- and in fact never banned visas in the first place. Third, Obama’s policy did not prevent all citizens of that country, including green-card holders, from traveling to the United States.

Four countries were identified by Congress, in a bill signed by Obama, and then the Obama administration added three more. But Obama — and Democrats in Congress — wanted to require greater visa scrutiny of people who had traveled to those countries. When given a chance, the Obama administration specifically rejected the citizenship-based restrictions that Trump ordered. So there were significant differences in the approach.

The New York Times did not apologize to its subscribers for its coverage of Trump. Both the Times and The Post have seen spikes in audience and subscribers. (The Post announced at the end of 2016 that it is “profitable and growing.”)

Trump goes too far to claim that it is “very tough” for Syrian Christians to become refugees in the United States and that they have been “horribly treated.” While it is correct that a relatively small percentage of Syrian refugees have been admitted, the experience of Iraqi refugees is exactly the opposite, even though the same U.N. agency handles the refugee requests. The basic fact is that no one fully understands why there is such a disparity, though it appears connected to the roots the Syrians have with Lebanon.

Trump received 54 percent of the vote in Florida, according to National Election Pool exit poll data. (There is no national poll since two-thirds of eligible Cuban voters live in Florida.)

This is debatable. At the very least, one might count the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War and the end of the Cold War as victories for the United States.

The media simply reported what Trump said about the intelligence community. On Dec. 9, when The Washington Post reported that intelligence officials had concluded that Russia had sought to undermine Hillary Clinton in the election, the Trump team issued a statement: “These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.” After information leaked that Trump had been briefed that an unverified dossier alleged Russia had embarrassing information about him, Trump lashed out at the intelligence agencies and asked, “Are we living in Nazi Germany?”

Speaking to employees at the CIA, Trump complained about news coverage showing his inauguration crowd was smaller than Barack Obama’s crowd in 2009. Trump’s crowd did not go all the way to the Washington Monument. No matter how you calculate it, Trump’s crowd was significantly smaller than Obama’s crowd — and the Women’s March on Washington the next day.

Trump has been on the cover of Time magazine a total of 11 times. Richard Nixon holds the record: 55. Depending on whether you count small photographs, Hillary Clinton has been on the cover between 22 and 31 times.

Trump lauded two executive actions regarding immigration and border security, including building a wall along the border of Mexico. The numbers appear to have little basis in reality. Just building the wall is estimated to cost as much as $25 billion -- before annual maintenance costs.

The unions for ICE agents and Border Patrol officers did endorse Trump in the 2016 campaign. But they did not do so unanimously. The National Border Patrol Council endorsement was based just on the vote of 11 union leaders, which sparked controversy among union members. Agents in El Paso, in a 14-to-13 vote, narrowly failed to have the local union disavow the endorsement.

Trump’s electoral college margin was relatively narrow by historical standards. He ranks 46th out of 58 elections. A switch of about 40,000 votes in three states would have swung the election to Clinton.

Trump attacked the author of a 2012 Pew Center on the States report for saying his report did not back up Trump’s claims of voter fraud. Trump suggested the researcher had changed his tune, but when the report was issued, the author repeatedly explained it did not reflect voter fraud.

Not only is there no evidence of massive voter fraud, but there is also no way Trump could possibly know this.

Crowd estimates are difficult, but attendance for Trump’s speech appears to be at least 80 percent smaller than Obama’s 2009 swearing-in, 70 percent smaller than Lyndon B. Johnson’s inauguration and 60 percent smaller than Obama’s second inauguration in 2013. In terms of TV viewership, Trump ranks fifth, far behind Reagan. Even online estimates don’t boost him to “biggest audience.”

This is wrong. No one was shot and killed in Chicago that day, according to the Chicago Police Department. Four shootings occurred that day, with a total of six people shot, but no one died.

In 2015, Iraq produced about 4 million barrels a day, enough crude oil to fill more than 700 Trump Towers. Securing all of the oil, including in northern Iraq where the Islamic State exists, would require a military force larger than the one that invaded Iraq in 2003. It would also be considered a war crime.

Trump is lumping together the wars in Iraq (in the Middle East) and Afghanistan (in South Asia), which together cost about $1.6 trillion from 2001 to 2014. He is also adding in estimates of future spending, such as interest on the debt and veterans' care for the next three decades.

In attacking the Affordable Care Act, Trump repeats a Four-Pinocchio whopper. Some 20 million people have gained health coverage because of the law. About 2 million people were told their old plans no longer qualified under the law, but after an uproar, most received waivers that kept the plans going until the end of 2017. In any case, anyone whose plan was terminated could buy new insurance.

Trump takes both comments out of context and twists their meaning. Dayton faulted Republicans for refusing to adjust the law, which he said made insurance “no longer affordable to increasing numbers of people.” Bill Clinton’s remark about a “crazy system” referred to the fact that people who did not qualify for insurance subsidies did not have a way to buy into Medicare or Medicaid.

Trump's electoral college victory was relatively narrow, ranking 46th out of 58 electoral college results. He also lost the popular vote by 2.1 percentage points. The focus on winning counties is misleading, as Clinton won the counties with the most people, which is why she had such a commanding popular-vote margin.

To put it in context, the number of people affected by premium increases is just one-fourteenth the size of the employment-based health-insurance market. Moreover, some of the initial steps taken by the Trump administration have helped worsen the problems in the individual insurance market — allowing Trump to create a self-fulfilling prophecy.

In contrast to Obama, who always played down the number of jobs that would be created by the Keystone XL Pipeline, Trump inflated the numbers. The project would create part-year work in four states for 10,400 workers, the State Department determined. That added up to 3,900 annual construction jobs. About 12,000 other annual jobs would stem from direct spending on the project. So that adds up to 16,000, most of which are not construction jobs. (This statement earned Three Pinocchios.)

The percentage is accurate, per Chicago police. But with only one month of data in 2017, it’s too early to use that statistic to call it “carnage.” Trump also said he would “send in the feds,” although federal agencies already work with Chicago police.

There is little evidence that Trump received awards for the environment. The White House pointed us to a self-published book by Trump’s former environmental consultant. The only award mentioned in that book was from the New Jersey Audubon Society — but the group denied it ever gave an award to Trump, the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster or any of its employees.

This is clearly a made-up figure. As of the end of 2015, there were nearly 180,000 pages in the code of federal regulations. So, in theory, that means getting it down to 45,000 pages. There were 71,000 pages back in 1975. Even under Ronald Reagan, the number of pages climbed almost 20 percent.

This is a fantasy, worthy of Four Pinocchios. Trump is obsessed with how he lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes, and so he keeps making this claim even though there is no evidence to support it.

Trump appeared to be responding to criticism of his heavily political speech in front of the CIA’s memorial wall. He claimed to have received standing ovations, but he never invited the employees to take a seat. So they remained standing the whole time.

Actually, Obama’s ratings in 2009 were 7 million people higher than Trump’s numbers. Second-term inaugurals tend to get lower ratings, so Trump is cherry-picking the comparison.

The suburbs around Washington are among the richest in the United States, largely because of the federal government (which attracts people with college or advanced degrees). Among the 25 most populous metropolitan areas, the D.C. metro area has the highest median income in the nation -- $93,294 versus a U.S. median of $55,775 -- though growth has slowed in recent years, in part because of reductions in defense spending. Indeed, income in the D.C. area has grown essentially at the same rate as the rest of the nation since 2006, including a dip in median income during the Great Recession. But there is no empirical evidence that the D.C. area got rich off the rest of the country, as Trump suggests.

Trump is a minority president, in terms of the popular vote. He lost the popular vote by nearly 2.9 million votes to Hillary Clinton. Trump’s electoral college win, meanwhile, was a squeaker. Trump had narrow victories in three key states (and narrow losses in two others).

In 2015, 13 percent of people lived below poverty level inside metropolitan statistical areas. That is on par with the national poverty rate in 2015 (13.5 percent). Overall, the poverty rate has remained relatively flat under Obama. Violent and property crimes overall have been declining for about two decades and are far below rates seen one or two decades ago.

Trump mixes up several things here. He seems to be referring to free-trade agreements in the first part of his sentence, though he ignores the fact that many U.S. industries also benefit and grow when they are able to sell products overseas. The cost of maintaining foreign bases is a mere pittance of the $500 billion defense budget. And foreign military aid requires that the funds be spent on U.S. hardware, creating jobs for Americans.

Trump continues to attack companies that ship jobs overseas and has promised to keep jobs in the United States. But Trump has had a long history of outsourcing a variety of his products as a businessman, and he has acknowledged doing so.

Trump engages in hyperbole, attributing all of the decline in manufacturing to foreign trade. Some economists calculate 1 million to 2 million jobs were lost after China was admitted to the World Trade Organization in 2000. But economists say they believe the biggest factor in the decline in manufacturing is automation, not jobs going overseas. Another factor is decreased consumer spending on manufactured goods. A new report by the Congressional Research Service notes that “employment in manufacturing has fallen in most major manufacturing countries over the past quarter-century,” so the U.S. experience is not unusual.

Trump attacks companies that ship jobs overseas, and has promised to keep jobs in the United States. But this is inconsistent with his long history of outsourcing products as a businessman. We know of at least 12 countries where Trump products were manufactured. Further, Trump products transited other countries through the packaging and shipping process — meaning that workers in more than 12 countries contributed to getting many of Trump’s products made, packaged and delivered to the United States.

“Welfare” is a broad term and can apply to people who are working but receiving government assistance. If someone is receiving means-tested assistance, it doesn’t necessarily mean they are not working.

Speaking to employees at the CIA, Trump complained about news coverage showing his inauguration crowd was smaller than Obama’s crowd in 2009. Trump’s crowd did not go all the way to the Washington Monument. No matter how you calculate it, Trump’s crowd was significantly smaller than Obama’s crowd — and the Women’s March on Washington the next day.

The trade-deficit number is close to correct, but Trump apparently does not understand the meaning of “trade deficit.” He often suggests this money could be used to pay for his planned wall along the southern border. But that’s nonsensical. A trade deficit only means that people in one country are buying more goods from another country than people in the second country are buying from the first country. No money passes from government to government.

“Welfare” is a broad term and can apply to people who are working but receiving government assistance. If someone is receiving means-tested assistance, it doesn’t necessarily mean they are not working.

This is wrong. Murders have declined significantly in Philadelphia over the past decade, from 397 in 2007 to 277 in 2016; the number has been below 300 for four straight years in a city that neared 500 in 1990. The number of violent crimes, property crimes and robberies are lower than they've been in at least four decades.

Trump often claims there is “no system to vet” refugees. The process actually takes two more years, after vetting that starts with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and then continues with checks by U.S. intelligence and security agencies. (Our colleagues at PolitiFact did a good look at this process.)

Trump appeared to be responding to criticism of his heavily political speech in front of the CIA’s memorial wall. He claimed to have received standing ovations, but he never invited the employees to take a seat. So they remained standing the whole time.