PNN – In the first month of his return to the White House, US President Donald Trump has taken various actions at an impressive speed, and his public statements are full of exaggerations and obvious fakes, just like in his first term.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, in the first month of his return to power, Trump has told many lies quickly and seriously. In his speeches, interviews, exchanges with reporters and messages on social networks, the President of the United States filled his public statements not only with exaggeration, but also with obvious falsification. As in his first term, Trump made false claims with a frequency and variety unmatched by any other elected official in Washington.
Trump’s 13 lies since his inauguration on January 20, 2025, according to CNN, are as follows:
1- The fake story of the $50 million supply of men’s toiletries for Hamas:
When his press secretary Carolyn Leavitt announced in her first official White House briefing that Trump had scrapped a $50 million plan “to fund men’s sanitary supplies in Gaza,” speculation immediately began about the highly dubious claim.
The Trump administration had no evidence to prove it. But Trump not only repeated the $50 million figure the next day, but also added the provocative claim that the men’s toiletries were “for Hamas.” Then, a few days after it was revealed that the $50 million figure was pure imagination, he raised the figure to “$100 million.”
2- Blaming Ukraine for starting the war:
The war between Russia and Ukraine started in 2022 after Moscow attacked Kiev. But on Tuesday, when Trump dismissed Ukrainian complaints that they were being excluded from US-Russian talks on ending the war, he falsely accused Ukraine of starting the war, saying: “You never should have started it. You could have traded.” Kremlin-style propaganda, this time repeated by the American president.
3- (Non) uniqueness of citizenship based on birth:
In his efforts to end birthright citizenship, Trump has made statements that might seem logical. He said that America is the only country that has the right to citizenship based on birth.
But these statements are not true. Trump has made similar claims as president in 2018 and on various other occasions. Dozens of countries, including Canada and Mexico, also grant automatic citizenship to people born on their soil.
4- More distortion of the reality of January 6:
For years, Trump has presented a version of the January 6, 2021 congressional riot that bears little resemblance to what actually happened.
When asked in early February why he was pardoning people who attacked police officers, Trump said the people he pardoned were actually attacked by “our government” and “they didn’t attack.”
This “they didn’t attack” claim was a blatant denial of the obvious truth revealed in the videotaped calls and court hearings. The US Department of Justice has said that more than 140 officers were attacked on January 6, and that more than 170 people have confessed to the attacks.
5- A wave of deception about California’s water policy:
In the midst of disaster, more dishonesty. First, Trump linked the Los Angeles fires to California’s decision to use part of the water to protect fish species in the northern part of the state; although the two claims have nothing to do with each other, as explained by experts.
After ordering the sudden release of billions of gallons of water from Central Valley reservoirs for no good reason, Trump announced that some of that water was headed for Los Angeles.
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6- The election lie that Trump refused to forget:
Trump’s victory in the free and fair elections of 2024 did not convince him to stop lying endlessly about his defeat in the free and fair elections of 2020. More than four years after Trump’s defeat to Joe Biden, he repeated the claim of “election fraud” on at least three occasions, including on his inauguration day in 2025.
7- Claim about Olympic boxers:
Trump, who was once a prominent promoter of lies about the birthplace of US President Barack Obama, is also spreading lies about specific people. This time, to promote her push to ban transgender athletes from the Olympics, she told her familiar story about how the two women’s boxing gold medalists at last year’s Paris Games were men who “transitioned.”
This claim is wrong. As the International Olympic Committee pointed out repeatedly during the Olympics, none of the champions had been transgender when Trump and others made such claims. Both were born female and have always competed in women’s competitions. Not even one official from the boxing federation, which controversially banned women from competing in 2023 after vaguely claiming that a test showed they had an unfair competitive advantage, claimed they were transgender.
8- Imaginary northern neighbor of the president:
Before taking office, Trump routinely stated that Canadians “love” his idea of ​​Canada becoming the 51st state of the United States. This was the opposite of the truth. This idea is not popular with the Canadian public. Then, after his inauguration, Trump continued to make claims about Canada. At one point, he posted a message on social media and then said out loud that Canada was banning American banks from doing business there. He added: Do you believe this? No doubt some Americans believe it, but it is a lie.
9- Criticism of Biden for the program launched under Trump:
After January’s fatal collision between a military helicopter and a passenger plane, Trump blamed the accident on the Biden administration’s diversity initiatives at the Federal Aviation Administration, without providing any evidence.
He also spun a fictional story about Biden’s maddened push to hire people with significant disabilities as air traffic controllers, explaining that the FAA pilot program was actually a multi-year initiative launched under his own administration in 2019.
10- Relentless deception of tariff payment:
When Trump talked about the tariffs he imposed on Chinese imports during his first term in office, he talked about the amount of revenue “from China” for the U.S. Treasury due to those tariffs. When he talked about the additional tariffs he plans to impose on various other countries during his current presidency, he spoke of the need to “penalize them.”
At no point did he acknowledge that American importers, not foreign countries, would be the ones paying the real costs of the tariffs. Various reviews, including one by the federal government’s bipartisan trade commission, found that Americans bore nearly all the costs of his first round of tariffs on Chinese goods.
11- Exaggeration about the increase in the rate of autism:
Trump remains fond of the thoroughly debunked conspiracy theory that childhood vaccines cause autism. However, he did not explicitly confirm it, and in a message on social media in early February, he highlighted the extent of the increase in the known prevalence of autism over the past two decades. 20 years ago, autism in children was 1 in 10,000 cases.
12- China’s operations in the Panama Canal:
Most of Trump’s lies are propaganda. However, some of it is pre-planned. But part of it is written in his prepared speeches. “Above all, China runs the Panama Canal and we didn’t give it to China, we gave it to Panama and we’re taking it back,” he said in his inauguration speech in January.
If China really ran the Panama Canal, this would be a good statement. But it is not; Panama has such a policy, although Trump could raise legitimate questions about China’s influence in the region.
13- Trump’s claim about winning with the youth vote:
While promoting his victory in the 2024 election, Trump made accurate statements, such as the fact that he won all seven swing states. But in keeping with his longstanding practice of exaggerating even legitimate achievements.
He also kept making a certain claim; that he won 36% of the youth vote. In fact, polls at the end of the election show him losing the youth vote to then-Vice President Kamala Harris. Even if these polls were ineffective, there is no basis for the claim that he won 36% of the youth vote.