Every week is a new batch. Some lies are retreads — things he's been saying for years that still aren't true. Some are fresh off the assembly line. This week's collection spans voting, drugs, the Iran war, and the economy. All of it sourced. All of it demolished. Let's go.
He Invented 15 Million Extra California Ballots.
Trump has been on a tear about mail-in voting this month, pushing Congress to pass a bill that would ban it for most federal elections. To sell the bill, he's been making things up about California specifically.
California sends mail-in ballots to all active registered voters. The state had approximately 22.6 million active registered voters as of two weeks before the 2024 election and about 23.1 million as of end of 2025. Trump's "38 million" figure is not even in the same zip code as reality — he invented roughly 15 million extra ballots out of thin air. There is no basis for any suggestion that some 15 million excess ballots have been distributed in any California election. The claim about Democrats getting "seven or eight ballots" is also completely unsupported by any evidence.
SourcesThe Carter commission said no such thing. Trump has been misrepresenting what it said since 2020 — six years of the same lie about the same commission. Carter has been dead for over a year and can't correct the record. Convenient. As for "inherently dishonest" — Trump himself voted by mail in a 2026 Florida state House special election. While actively pushing to ban mail-in voting. He is the world's most vocal opponent of a thing he personally does.
SourcesDrugs Entering by Sea Are "Down 97%." He Has No Idea.
In January, after ordering strikes on small boats in international waters — boats he claimed were drug traffickers, boats for which no evidence of drug trafficking was ever provided — Trump announced that drugs entering the country by sea were down 97%.
Ninety. Seven. Percent.
PolitiFact rated this claim FALSE. No evidence was provided. No data was cited. No agency confirmed it. The number appears to have been invented on the spot to justify strikes on vessels that may or may not have had anything to do with drugs. The administration conducted deadly strikes on small boats in international waters and then just announced the strikes worked spectacularly — with a made-up number — and moved on.
PolitiFact rated this FALSE. No supporting evidence was provided by the administration. No federal agency confirmed the figure. No methodology was cited. The claim was made to justify deadly strikes on boats in international waters for which no evidence of drug trafficking was ever publicly provided. The administration claimed each such strike "saves 25,000 American lives" — also with zero evidence. You can't claim a 97% reduction in something you aren't measuring.
SourcesThe Strait of Hormuz "Doesn't Really Affect" the United States.
On March 13th, Trump claimed that Iran effectively closing the Strait of Hormuz — the chokepoint through which 20% of the world's oil supply passes — "doesn't really affect" the United States the way it does "other countries."
Gas was $3.94 a gallon nationally at the time he said this. Up more than a dollar in a single month. Oil prices had surged above $100 per barrel for the first time since 2022. Businesses were warning about cascading price increases on everything that requires transportation or energy.
But sure. Doesn't really affect us.
FactCheck.org reviewed this claim: while it's true that a small share of US oil imports come directly from the Persian Gulf, the US has absolutely been affected by the global increase in oil prices caused by Hormuz disruptions. Gas hit $3.94/gallon nationally — up over $1 in a month. Goldman Sachs estimated the war's oil impact would add measurably to US inflation. Higher global oil prices affect everything that requires energy or transportation to produce or deliver. That is: everything. The idea that the US exists in an oil price bubble separate from the rest of the world is simply not how global commodity markets work.
SourcesIran Has US Tomahawk Missiles. (No, It Doesn't.)
At a press conference on March 9th, Trump claimed that Iran "also has some Tomahawks" — referring to US Tomahawk cruise missiles. PolitiFact investigated. The claim is false.
Iran does not have Tomahawk missiles. Tomahawks are US Navy cruise missiles. Iran has its own missile arsenal — a significant and dangerous one that doesn't need to be invented or inflated. But Trump invented this detail anyway, apparently to make Iran sound scarier or to justify the war or just because he says things that aren't true and nobody in his orbit stops him.
PolitiFact rated this FALSE. Tomahawk missiles are US Navy cruise missiles. Iran does not have them. Iran has its own extensive missile arsenal — including ballistic missiles and precision-guided munitions — none of which are Tomahawks. The Commander-in-Chief of the United States military does not appear to know what missiles his own military has, what missiles the country he's at war with has, or the difference between the two.
SourcesAnd the Iran Nuclear Deal "Gave Iran the Right to Have Nuclear Weapons."
On March 3rd, Trump claimed the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement "gave Iran the right to have top-of-the-line nuclear weapons." This is the opposite of what the agreement did. The JCPOA — which Trump withdrew from in 2018 — restricted Iran's nuclear program, limited uranium enrichment, imposed inspections, and pushed back Iran's nuclear breakout time. The entire point of the deal was to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons.
After Trump withdrew from it, Iran resumed enrichment, expanded its nuclear program, and got considerably closer to weapons capability than it was under the deal. Trump didn't just lie about what the agreement did — he described it as doing the literal opposite of what it actually did.
He said the deal that prevented Iran from getting nukes gave Iran the right to have nukes. That's not spin. That's not exaggeration. That is a complete inversion of reality.
The JCPOA did the exact opposite — it restricted Iran's nuclear program, capped uranium enrichment at 3.67%, reduced Iran's uranium stockpile by 98%, required inspections, and extended Iran's nuclear breakout time to at least a year. After Trump withdrew from the deal in 2018, Iran resumed enrichment, expanded its nuclear infrastructure, and significantly shortened its breakout timeline. FactCheck.org confirmed Trump's claim about what the deal said is false — the deal contained no provision giving Iran the right to nuclear weapons. It was a nonproliferation agreement.
SourcesNew Week. Same Playbook. Zero Accountability.
Five separate documented lies in a single week. Fifteen million phantom ballots. A made-up drug statistic used to justify deadly strikes on boats. A claim that a global oil crisis "doesn't affect" us while Americans pay $4 a gallon. Wrong information about what weapons Iran has. A complete inversion of what a nuclear agreement actually said.
And the White House's response to every single one of these, when pressed? You already know. "President Trump is right."
He is not right. He has never been right about these things. And the fact that we've all gotten so used to this that it barely makes the news anymore is exactly how they want it. The lies come faster than anyone can fact-check them. The corrections get buried. The original claim lives on.
Not here. Not on this site. We're keeping receipts.