CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale said President Donald Trump stuck to his script during Tuesday night’s speech before a joint session of Congress ― but he didn’t stick to the facts.
“President Trump was, believe it or not, marginally more careful with the facts tonight than he usually is,” Dale told CNN’s Jake Tapper, adding that’s only when compared to his campaign rallies, in which Trump often ad-libbed 30 false claims or more.
“But by the standard of any politician in Washington who is not Donald Trump, that was still an extremely dishonest speech,” he said. “I counted at least 13 flat false claims, and that is a preliminary count that doesn’t include a whole bunch of additional misleading or uncorroborated claims.”
Trump, Dale said, repeated his frequent false claim about tariffs, saying they’re paid by other countries and not ultimately the American consumer. Trump also delivered “wildly exaggerated figures on inflation and immigration under President Biden.”
And that was just for starters.
See more of Dale’s fact-checking below: