Jobs, gas prices and ending wars: factchecking Trump's State of the Union claims

[Coventina]

Donald Trump officially made the longest State of the Union address in history on Tuesday night, with broad claims about the successes achieved during the first year of his second term.

But the speech that stretched across more than an hour and 41 minutes was filled with strong statements, many of them inflated, misleading or simply untrue.

Here are some of the claims made by the president during his address:

Trump repeatedly touted his economy, boasting “we are the hottest country anywhere in the world” and claiming “we have more jobs, more people working today than ever before in the history of our country.”

But data shows job gains under Trump slowed in 2025, and were far smaller than any other non-pandemic year.



https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/25/trump-state-of-the-union-factcheck

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[dalton99a]

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[Coventina]

3. Dang! I'm paying $3.20 a gallon in Phoenix! n/t

[surfered]

2. It was a firehose of shameless lying:

He replayed his greatest hits: He inherited the worst economy, but things are just great now. Gasoline is $1.90 a gallon. He ended 8 wars. Foreign governments pay the tariffs.

[efhmc]

4. Any half way sane or intelligent person knows these are criminally insane lies.