Which specific second‑term statements by Trump have been repeated most often and how have fact‑checkers rated them?
Executive summary
Across President Trump’s second term, fact‑checking outlets repeatedly flagged a handful of recurring claims — about inflation, job creation and immigration, massive private investment pledges, Washington, D.C., crime statistics, and U.S. policy on Ukraine and vaccines — and consistently rated them false or misleading; the record also shows a pattern of repetition that scholars say amplifies public acceptance of false claims [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6].
1. Inflation: “worst in history,” “inflation is stopped,” and “I’m crushing inflation” — frequently repeated and routinely rated false
Trump repeatedly framed inflation as historically catastrophic when he “took office,” and later claimed he had “stopped” inflation or was “crushing” it; fact‑checkers at CNN, FactCheck.org and The Guardian documented that those characterizations were inaccurate or misleading because inflation rates at key points did not match his hyperbolic descriptions and the year‑over‑year rate had not meaningfully declined to zero — CNN called the “inflation is stopped” line false and The Guardian flagged similar inflation exaggerations as baseless [1] [5] [7].
2. Jobs and immigration: competing repeated claims about who got “all” new jobs — checked and mostly false or misleading
A recurring second‑term narrative—asserting that “100%” or “all net job creation” went to migrants or, conversely, that only U.S. citizens benefited depending on the occasion—was picked apart by fact‑checkers; FactCheck.org and CNN showed the underlying labor‑force and payroll data do not support sweeping “all” claims, and The Guardian described the assertion that every new job went to immigrants as baseless, noting federal and independent analyses tell a more complex story [2] [7] [1].
3. $18 trillion (and similar) investment boasts — tallied as fiction by multiple fact‑checks
Bold figures touted by the White House that Trump “secured” $18 trillion to $22 trillion in investment during his second presidency were repeatedly promoted on the stump and social platforms and were labeled factually unsupported by CNN and PolitiFact, which listed such investment‑total claims among its recent false rulings [1] [8].
4. Crime and local statistics: the DC “no murders” or “first time in years” claims — contradicted by data
Trump’s frequent use of short‑hand crime claims, including that Washington, D.C., had gone months without a murder or experienced a unique 11‑day zero‑murder stretch, was checked and found inaccurate by FactCheck.org and CNN, which pointed to police statistics and prior periods that contradicted the timelines he cited [4] [5].
5. Ukraine, vaccines and other policy claims — repeated, checked, and often labeled false or misleading
On foreign policy, Trump repeatedly blamed Ukraine for the war or suggested Kyiv “should have never started it,” a claim fact‑checkers marked false because Russia’s invasion began in February 2022, not Ukraine’s actions [4]. He also resurrected vaccine safety and mRNA research claims to justify policy shifts; FactCheck.org and allied scientific organizations pushed back, saying officials’ statements on vaccines and autism were unsupported by the evidence [4] [2]. Fact‑checking compendiums and encyclopedic rollups document many such recurrent claim themes and their debunking [3] [9].
6. How fact‑checkers have rated these repetitions, and what’s missing from the record
Major fact‑checkers (FactCheck.org, CNN, PolitiFact, The Guardian summaries and compiled lists on Wikipedia) have consistently rated the recurring second‑term claims described above as false, misleading or unsupported, and academic work warns that repetition itself increases public belief in falsehoods even after debunking — yet none of the provided sources supplies a single, ranked count of which individual second‑term claim was repeated the most often, so precise frequency ordering cannot be established from the material supplied [1] [8] [4] [6] [3].