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Manufacturing

Apple is committing to purchasing $100 million of Pennsylvania titanium for its new iPhone

Donald Trump

Verdict: Mostly True
Apple committed up to $100 million over three years to purchase titanium from a Pennsylvania-based supplier for products including its new iPhone Duo.The Baseline automated desk · Oct 22, 2026
Healthcare

Melania Trump announced a White House Women's Health Initiative

Donald Trump

Verdict: Mostly True
First Lady Melania Trump participated in announcing and launching a White House initiative and task force on women's health alongside President Donald Trump.The Baseline automated desk · Oct 21, 2026
Elections

James Talarico has been missing for 12 days and put out a statement that he has the flu.

Donald Trump

Verdict: Mostly True
Donald Trump accurately claimed that James Talarico was absent from the campaign trail for 12 days due to a reported flu diagnosis.The Baseline automated desk · Oct 8, 2026
Economy

Deportations, not tariffs, impacted small business in the economic fallout.

Howard Lutnick

Verdict: Mostly True
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick explicitly argued that a government shutdown and mass deportations, rather than tariffs, were responsible for the decline in small business jobs.The Baseline automated desk · Oct 4, 2026
Congress

Senator Tom Cotton is holding up the Sunshine Protection Act in the Senate.

Donald Trump

Verdict: Mostly True
Senator Tom Cotton has opposed the Sunshine Protection Act and is described as the primary obstacle blocking its advancement in the Senate.The Baseline automated desk · Oct 3, 2026
Federal Budget

Donald Trump canceled nearly $1 billion in funding for illegal immigrants and race-focused programs through a 'pocket' rescission.

Donald Trump

Verdict: Mostly True
Donald Trump canceled nearly $1 billion in congressionally approved spending targeting immigrant services and diversity-related programs using a rare rescission authority.The Baseline automated desk · Oct 1, 2026
Jobs

Women account for almost all net U.S. job gains since Trump took office

Donald Trump

Verdict: Mostly True
BLS-based analyses cited by Just The News and The Daily Wire confirm women accounted for nearly all net U.S. payroll job gains since Trump's January 2025 inauguration, though the trend reflects sector-specific hiring patterns rather than a simple gender-driven boom.The Baseline automated desk · Sep 8, 2026
Media

Victor Davis Hanson wrote a book titled "The Counter Revolution"

Donald Trump

Verdict: Mostly True
Victor Davis Hanson did write a book, titled 'The Counterrevolution: The Fall and Rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA Movement,' which Trump referred to as 'The Counter Revolution' in his post.The Baseline automated desk · Sep 7, 2026
Trade

The exchange rate imbalance between the Canadian dollar and the U.S. dollar has persisted for years

Donald Trump

Verdict: Mostly True
Historical exchange-rate data confirm the Canadian dollar has been weaker than the U.S. dollar for most of the past 15 years, supporting Trump's claim of a long-standing imbalance.The Baseline automated desk · Sep 6, 2026
Jobs

The U.S. just received jobs numbers that were very good

Donald Trump

Verdict: Mostly True
The August jobs report did indeed far exceed expectations, supporting Trump's characterization of the numbers as 'very good.'The Baseline automated desk · Sep 6, 2026
Jobs

The White House's August jobs report showed explosive job growth driven by manufacturing and private-sector hiring.

Donald Trump

Verdict: Mostly True
Independent reporting confirms the August jobs report beat expectations, with private-sector and manufacturing hiring both outperforming forecasts, matching the White House's framing.The Baseline automated desk · Sep 5, 2026
Elections

The Missouri Supreme Court ruled in favor of changing the congressional/legislative maps back to their previous boundaries.

Donald Trump

Verdict: Mostly True
The Missouri Supreme Court did block Trump-backed congressional maps and restored the state's previous district boundaries, though it also ordered a statewide referendum on the map rather than permanently reinstating the old lines.The Baseline automated desk · Sep 4, 2026
Foreign Policy

"There's not a single example in the entirety of American history of an air campaign alone resulting in positive regime change."

Sen. Chris Murphy

Verdict: Mostly True
Most military historians agree: air power alone has rarely, if ever, produced lasting, positive regime change without ground forces or the credible threat of them. A few cases (Libya 2011, the Balkans) are debated, but each involved ground forces or fell short of Murphy's bar.PolitiFact, military historians · Mar 1, 2026
Energy

"We are right now producing more oil than Saudi Arabia and Russia combined."

President Donald Trump

Verdict: Mostly True
True if you count all petroleum liquids: the U.S. produces more total liquids than Saudi Arabia and Russia combined. For crude oil alone, the U.S. leads each country but not their combined total.PolitiFact, U.S. Energy Information Administration · Apr 29, 2026
Voting

"9% of American citizens don't have the identification that the SAVE Act requires to vote. Almost 1 in 10."

Sen. Tammy Duckworth

Verdict: Mostly True
Survey research supports roughly this share: studies estimate that about 9% of voting-age citizens, on the order of 20 million people, lack a current government-issued photo ID. Estimates vary by survey and by how ID is defined.PolitiFact, University of Maryland · Mar 18, 2026
Immigration

“Illegal border crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded.”

Verdict: Mostly True
CBP’s own data backs the core: June 2026 nationwide encounters (25,243) were the lowest in the agency’s records, 89% below the 2021–24 monthly average. Two caveats keep it from a clean True: encounters count apprehensions, not total crossings, and the record only reaches back to the modern data series.CBP / DHS · Jul 2, 2026
Crime

"California has lower homicide rates than Alabama, Arkansas and Oklahoma."

Gov. Gavin Newsom

Verdict: Mostly True
Federal mortality data support the comparison: California's per-capita homicide rate is below those of Alabama, Arkansas and Oklahoma. The exact ranking can shift by year and dataset, but the core claim holds.PolitiFact, CDC · Jun 12, 2025