A fact-check of Trump’s 2026 State of Union address
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PolitiFact is live fact-checking President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address to Congress Feb. 24. PolitiFact has fact-checked 1,144 of Trump ’s statements since 2011. Tonight, we’ll draw on that deep archive to check his speech’s accuracy.
A 2018 video of a Russian missile launch drill was posted online with false captions saying it shows Iran testing submarine-launched missiles.
In late February 2026, a rumor circulated online claiming that Trump said he wants to send 'criminals and people that don't work' out of the United US, as he claimed other countries do when they send 'caravans' to the US. But is there any truth to this? Let us find out below.