President Donald Trump gave a long, fiery speech to the United Nations on Tuesday. He spent over an hour warning world leaders that their countries were “going to hell” and repeating many of his usual claims.
Trump said he had ended seven wars around the world, claimed crime in Washington, D.C. is gone, and boasted that the U.S. has become the “hottest” country in the world under his leadership.
After the speech, CNN’s Daniel Dale went straight to work fact-checking. About Trump claiming to have ended wars, Dale said:
“There are a lot of issues there. So, first of all, some of the conflicts he’s counting as wars he resolved were not actually wars at all. For example, Egypt and Ethiopia have argued over an Ethiopian dam project on the Blue Nile, but they were not in a raging war in which thousands of people were being killed.
Similarly, Trump has claimed that he prevented conflict between Serbia and Kosovo from resuming, but they were not in a raging war either. In addition, the conflict involving the Democratic Republic of Congo and neighboring Rwanda has not actually been resolved. We have good reporting from just a day ago, talking about how hostilities have continued despite the peace deal that was signed under President Trump.
And then, in addition to that, India denies that President Trump was responsible for mediating its ceasefire, its truce, with neighboring Pakistan. So, a whole lot of issues with just that one claim.”
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In short, many of the “wars” Trump claimed to have stopped were not really wars at all. Some didn’t even need a mediator.
Dale also looked at Trump’s statements about the economy. The president said grocery prices are down and inflation is under control. Dale disagreed:
“President Trump said that grocery prices are down during this presidency. They’re up and the pace of the increases is accelerating as the tariffs take effect. He has claimed that inflation has been defeated in general, though inflation is also accelerating. It was 2.9% last month — up from 2.7%.
He said that European electricity bills are high, which is true, but that ours are coming way down. No, in the U.S. they are increasing sharply — up 6.2% in August compared to a year prior. And there were a whole bunch of other topics.”
Trump also made claims about China and energy. Dale explained why these were wrong:
“He claimed that China builds a lot of wind turbines and manufactures them for others, but refuses to use it itself, barely uses wind power. In fact, China is the world leader in the use of wind power. It is building additional wind power in China far faster than the pace at which the U.S. is building in the United States itself.
So the idea that China is just, you know, foisting this terrible source of energy on other countries while refusing to use it is a reversal of reality.”
Watch the full fact-check in the video below:
“A Reversal of Reality.”
CNN’s Daniel Dale fact-checks a series of false claims from Trump’s UN speech. WATCH: pic.twitter.com/jyVsTqiVzW
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