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🗳️🚦 Who’s protecting your vote? Who’s trying to influence it? And what’s actually proven?
From foreign interference claims to election security debates, voters deserve the facts before they cast their ballots.
Read the explainer. 👇
https://shorturl.at/uEJzF
#ElectionSecurity #ElectionIntegrity #VoterEducation #AmericaVotes #FactsFirst #Politics #Trump #clinton #Biden #Obama #Russia #Venezuela #china -
🗳️🚦 Who’s protecting your vote? Who’s trying to influence it? And what’s actually proven?
From foreign interference claims to election security debates, voters deserve the facts before they cast their ballots.
Read the explainer. 👇
https://shorturl.at/uEJzF
#ElectionSecurity #ElectionIntegrity #VoterEducation #AmericaVotes #FactsFirst #Politics #Trump #clinton #Biden #Obama #Russia #Venezuela #china -
Analysis: Donald Trump’s top 25 lies of 2025 – CNN Politics
President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on April 29. Andrew Harnik / Getty Images/FilePolitics,13 min read
Analysis: Donald Trump’s top 25 lies of 2025
By Daniel Dale, Dec 27, 2025
President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on April 29. Andrew Harnik / Getty Images / FileIt was hard to pick only 25. But it was easier than it used to be.
Just like his first presidency, President Donald Trump’s first calendar year back in the White House was an unceasing parade of lies. In 2025, though, the variety of Trump’s false claims shrunk even as he maintained his trademark staggering frequency.
Trump’s lying has always been characterized by dogged repetition. It became especially repetitive in 2025. While he continued to regularly sprinkle in new lies, he relied on a core set of go-to fabrications he deployed virtually no matter the setting and no matter how many times they had been debunked.
Did you hear the one about how Trump secured $17 trillion or $18 trillion in investment? You probably did if you watched even a few Trump speeches or interviews. Same with the one about how consumer prices have fallen this year, the one about how Trump ended seven or eight wars, and the one about how foreign leaders around the world emptied their prisons and mental institutions to send unwanted citizens across the US border as migrants.
Here is our highly subjective list of Trump’s top 25 lies of 2025. We chose some because the president repeated them particularly often, some because they were about notably consequential topics, and some because they were especially egregious in their distance from reality.
Inflation, tariffs and the economy
Vehicles line a shipping terminal at the Port of Oakland in California, on April 15. Noah Berger / AP/FileLie: Trump secured $17 trillion or $18 trillion in investment in 2025
The president who loves big numbers, even if they’re fake, had a fictional figure he cited in speech after speech: a claim that he had secured “$17 trillion” in investment in the US in less than a year back in the White House. It didn’t help Trump’s case that the White House’s own website said at the time that it was actually $8.8 trillion – and even that figure was wildly inflated – but he proceeded to increase his claim to “$18 trillion” even though the website still had it under $10 trillion.
Lie: ‘Every price is down’
Trump lied even about subjects that everyday people could themselves see he was lying about. He claimed in the fall that there was “no inflation,” though there was inflation; that “every price is down,” though prices were up on thousands of products; that grocery prices were “way down,” though they were up; and that beef was the only grocery item that had gotten more expensive, though there were dozens of others. Polls showed most Americans weren’t buying his assertions.
Lie: Trump was reducing prescription drug prices by ‘2,000%, 3,000%’
Trump deployed not only implausible figures but impossible figures. He declared on numerous occasions that his “most favored nation” policy was going to bring down the price of prescription drugs by “500%” or more, sometimes “1,400 to 1,500%” or even “2,000%, 3,000%.” These claims are debunked by math itself – a decline of more than 100% would mean that Americans would get paid to acquire their medications – but the president kept making them even though he could have simply touted real (less-than-100%) price reductions on some drugs.
Lie: Foreign countries pay the US government’s tariffs
As consumer prices continued to rise, in part because of Trump’s sweeping tariffs on imported products, Trump clung to his familiar lie that these tariffs are paid by foreign countries, not by people or companies in the US. (The tariff payments to the government are made by US importers, not foreign exporters, and importers often pass on some or all of the added costs to the final consumer.) The president essentially fact-checked himself in November, when he told an interviewer that he would lower Americans’ coffee prices by lowering his tariffs on imported coffee.
Public safety
An anti-ICE protester holds an American flag near the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland, Oregon, on October 18. Mathieu Lewis-Rolland / Getty Images / FileLie: Portland was ‘burning down’
The president repeatedly said an American city was “burning down” or “burning to the ground” even though it was absolutely not burning down or burning to the ground. Sporadic clashes between protesters and law enforcement outside one Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland did not mean a 145-square-mile city was ablaze – as Portland residents, officials and media outlets kept noting as he kept lying.
Lie: Washington, DC had no murders for six months
The president continued his long-established pattern of choosing dramatic untruths over facts that would have been useful to him if he had just stated them accurately. Instead of correctly noting that crime in Washington, DC, declined after his federal takeover of law enforcement there in August, he falsely claimed three times in a November speech that the capital hadn’t had a single murder “in six months.” Washington actually had more than 50 homicides over the six months prior to the speech, police statistics and Washington Post tracking show.
Lie: ‘I invaded Los Angeles and we opened up the water’
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
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The Primacy Effect leads people to remember, believe, and be influenced by the FIRST thing that they read/see/hear more than later things they read/see/hear.
That's why it is very important to present:
Facts first;
lies later.#Meme #Memes #Journalism #Press #News #Media #SocialMedia #FactsFirst
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The Primacy Effect leads people to remember, believe, and be influenced by the FIRST thing that they read/see/hear more than later things they read/see/hear.
That's why it is very important to present:
Facts first;
lies later.#Meme #Memes #Journalism #Press #News #Media #SocialMedia #FactsFirst
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When dealing with Trump's lies, please always post the truth first. The Primacy Effect makes people believe what they read first more than what the read later.
Just reverse your presentation:
Facts first;
lies later.Ex:
Trump lies that he saved LA and lies about what the LAPD chief said — At the Museum of the Bible“We saved Los Angeles” 🤥
#FactsFirst #Trump #Lies #TrumpLies #SocialMedia #USPol #Politics #US #USA #Meme #memes #Truth
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When dealing with Trump's lies, please always post the truth first. The Primacy Effect makes people believe what they read first more than what the read later.
Just reverse your presentation:
Facts first;
lies later.Ex:
Trump lies that he saved LA and lies about what the LAPD chief said — At the Museum of the Bible“We saved Los Angeles” 🤥
#FactsFirst #Trump #Lies #TrumpLies #SocialMedia #USPol #Politics #US #USA #Meme #memes #Truth
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It's really annoying to see how European media keep pushing the incorrect takes from the Croatian presidential election. One lesson I learned the hard way in my earlier years as a journalist is to never write about things I don't understand or can't find a well informed person who does just because every one is writing about it or I think it will increase my readership. It won't
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It's really annoying to see how European media keep pushing the incorrect takes from the Croatian presidential election. One lesson I learned the hard way in my earlier years as a journalist is to never write about things I don't understand or can't find a well informed person who does just because every one is writing about it or I think it will increase my readership. It won't
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@sflcin and Logically Facts are hosting a two-hour session for students and young journalists to discuss the impact of artificial intelligence on elections. As the mega-election year 2024 draws to a close, we look back at how much or how little AI has a role to play.
Join us on:
Date: October 18th, 2024
Time: 4-6 PM IST
Venue: SFLC.in Office, New DelhiStay tuned for more updates!
#Election2024 #misinformation #deepfake #ArtificialIntelligence #FactsFirst #FactsMatter
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@sflcin and Logically Facts are hosting a two-hour session for students and young journalists to discuss the impact of artificial intelligence on elections. As the mega-election year 2024 draws to a close, we look back at how much or how little AI has a role to play.
Join us on:
Date: October 18th, 2024
Time: 4-6 PM IST
Venue: SFLC.in Office, New DelhiStay tuned for more updates!
#Election2024 #misinformation #deepfake #ArtificialIntelligence #FactsFirst #FactsMatter
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@bhahne @NewsDesk @immigration-AxiosNews
Put the #FactsFirst not the #lies.
What your brain processes first is treated as more valid than any #FactCheck or rebuttal it processes later (because that’s just how brains work).
Primacy = validity.
State the truth FIRST before showing the lie.
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@bhahne @NewsDesk @immigration-AxiosNews
Put the #FactsFirst not the #lies.
What your brain processes first is treated as more valid than any #FactCheck or rebuttal it processes later (because that’s just how brains work).
Primacy = validity.
State the truth FIRST before showing the lie.
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#Journalists and #SocialMedia users, please do not put a lie as the first/only text in a post or as the headline for your article. Instead, state the truth first in both your post & the headline.
Putting a lie first gives the lie primacy. It makes the lie seem more like a fact (because brains are weird & tend to believe what is encountered first).
Primacy = Validity
Give the truth primacy, not the lies. Put the #FactsFirst
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#Journalists and #SocialMedia users, please do not put a lie as the first/only text in a post or as the headline for your article. Instead, state the truth first in both your post & the headline.
Putting a lie first gives the lie primacy. It makes the lie seem more like a fact (because brains are weird & tend to believe what is encountered first).
Primacy = Validity
Give the truth primacy, not the lies. Put the #FactsFirst
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The #UAW earlier today endorsed #Harris
https://uaw.org/uaw-endorses-kamala-harris-for-president-ahead-of-mass-rally-in-detroit/Yet this evening, #Trump told a rally in #Pennsylvania, "The United Autoworkers are mostly going to vote for me."
Put the #FactsFirst not the #lies.
What your brain processes first is treated as more valid than any #FactCheck or rebuttal it processes later (because that’s just how brains work).
Primacy = validity.
#Journalism #Press #Media #News #Meme #TrumpLies #Politics #USA
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The #UAW earlier today endorsed #Harris
https://uaw.org/uaw-endorses-kamala-harris-for-president-ahead-of-mass-rally-in-detroit/Yet this evening, #Trump told a rally in #Pennsylvania, "The United Autoworkers are mostly going to vote for me."
Put the #FactsFirst not the #lies.
What your brain processes first is treated as more valid than any #FactCheck or rebuttal it processes later (because that’s just how brains work).
Primacy = validity.
#Journalism #Press #Media #News #Meme #TrumpLies #Politics #USA
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We are excited to announce that team @sflcin is hosting a #TwitterSpace on #InternationalFactCheckingDay, April 2nd, 2024.
As #elections are nearing, the shadow of #misinformation and #GenerativeAI content is looming over citizens. Let's have a conversation about safeguarding our democratic and electoral values in the #digital era!
Set the reminders.
#SFLCin #event #Elections2024 #India #twitter #space #AI #Fakenews #FactCheckIt #FactsFirst #TruthBeTold #disinformation
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We are excited to announce that team @sflcin is hosting a #TwitterSpace on #InternationalFactCheckingDay, April 2nd, 2024.
As #elections are nearing, the shadow of #misinformation and #GenerativeAI content is looming over citizens. Let's have a conversation about safeguarding our democratic and electoral values in the #digital era!
Set the reminders.
#SFLCin #event #Elections2024 #India #twitter #space #AI #Fakenews #FactCheckIt #FactsFirst #TruthBeTold #disinformation
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@RollingStone should have written:
"ExxonMobile left #NewYork in 1989, three decades before #LetitiaJames assumed the role of attorney general.
Yet today, during a break in the closing arguments of his New York civil #fraud trial, Donald #Trump claimed that James was responsible for forcing the oil and gas conglomerate ExxonMobil to leave the state and move to #Texas."
#FactsFirst #LeadWithTheTruth #TruthSandwich
#TrumpLies #Journalism #Journalists #Press #Media #News #USA -
@RollingStone should have written:
"ExxonMobile left #NewYork in 1989, three decades before #LetitiaJames assumed the role of attorney general.
Yet today, during a break in the closing arguments of his New York civil #fraud trial, Donald #Trump claimed that James was responsible for forcing the oil and gas conglomerate ExxonMobil to leave the state and move to #Texas."
#FactsFirst #LeadWithTheTruth #TruthSandwich
#TrumpLies #Journalism #Journalists #Press #Media #News #USA -
Alternate headline:
The GOP is trying to limit access to birth control, yet J.D. Vance claims that they aren't.Put the #FactsFirst
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Alternate headline:
The GOP is trying to limit access to birth control, yet J.D. Vance claims that they aren't.Put the #FactsFirst