-Trump falsely claimed, “Europe doesn’t use pesticides, and yet they have a better mortality rate than we do. They don’t use pesticides.” Pesticides are widely used in Europe -Trump repeated his familiar false claim that there were “no wars” during his presidency, this time saying, “Think of it: four years ago, we had no wars.” In fact, there were dozens of unresolved wars and armed conflicts in late 2020 and when Trump left office in early 2021
-Trump repeated his false claim that he built “571 miles” of a wall on the southern border. That’s an exaggeration; official government data shows 458 miles were built under Trump – including both wall built where no barriers had existed before and wall built to replace previous barriers.
-Trump falsely claimed, “Crime is at an all-time high.” That is nowhere close to true. Both violent crime and property crime rates have plummeted in the US since the early 1990s and are far below all-time highs. FBI data shows that crime declined again in 2023. -Trump falsely claimed that, during his presidency, “We had no inflation.” In fact, cumulative inflation during Trump’s presidency was about 8%.
-Trump falsely claimed that under President Joe Biden’s administration, “we had inflation the likes of which, I say – I don’t believe the country has ever seen inflation like that. They say ‘38 years,’ I don’t know; I think it’s probably ever.” There is no basis for Trump’s repeated suggestions that the US had its highest inflation of all time under Biden