President Donald Trump attended the annual NATO summit this week in Ankara, Turkey, and during his public appearances, he said many things that were untrue, according to a fact-checking column published Wednesday by CNN’s Daniel Dale.
“President Donald Trump delivered another series of false claims at a press conference Wednesday at the NATO summit in Ankara,” Dale’s column said. “His comments included some of the long-debunked lies he told the press while meeting with Turkey’s president on Tuesday.”
Among the false claims made by Trump in Turkey was the idea that there is “ $19.2 trillion” invested in the U.S. in the last year. The White House has claimed that figure in the past as “$10.6 trillion,” although that figure is also not accurate, as many of the dollars counted there include “vague investment pledges.”
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Trump also made false claims about new manufacturing that took place during his second presidency.
“The seasonally adjusted annual rate of manufacturing construction spending in May 2026, about $174.8 billion, was down about 28% from May 2024, the last May under Biden, and also down about 28% from December 2024, Biden’s last full month in office. It was down about 26% from February 2025, Trump’s first full month in office, and down about 22% from May 2025,” Dale writes.
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Trump also told some more familiar lies about the 2020 election, which he’s now been lying about for nearly six years.
“Trump lied again about the 2020 election he lost, saying: ‘I’ve been right about everything, and I have been for a long time. It’s how I got to be president three times. It’s how I won three elections.’ He went on to repeat that he ‘won’ the 2020 election but that it was a ‘rigged election,'” Dale wrote.
Trump also said untrue things about Venezuela, Biden-era migration policies, and the historic trajectory of oil prices.
“And you see the oil prices are lower than they were when I started,” which is not quite true, depending on the definitions of various terms.
“Oil prices fell sharply amid the ceasefire between the US and Iran that began this spring and continued into summer,” Dale wrote. “But they have jumped again in the last day – though not to anywhere close to the peaks of March, April and May – amid another exchange of attacks between the two countries, the resumption of US sanctions on Iranian oil sales and a Trump declaration that he thought the ceasefire was ‘over.'”
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