Outdated surveys on false help contracts: Factchecking Trump's congress address | Donald Trump

The United States has no longer given Ukraine since Russia's full invasion of 2022 in the amount of USD 350 billion

The President repeated one of his new favorite lies: the United States has given Ukraine 350 billion USD since Russia's full invasion in 2022, and Europe has only given $ 100 billion.

Indeed as a Jakub Krupa And Pjotr ​​Sauer reported last month for the Guardian, a run run by the Kiel Institute for the global economy that the United States issued about $ 120 billion, while Europe – when the sum of the EU and individual member states was counted – assigned almost $ 138 billion to help for Ukraine. If the contributions from not -Eu countries and Great Britain are contained, the Europe's share is even greater.

Last week, three visiting world leaders corrected Trump in this wrong explanation on three consecutive days when they were sitting next to him in the Oval Office: French President Emmanuel Macron, the British Prime Minister Keir Starrer and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Trump did not stop “45 million US dollars for diversity, equity and inclusion scholarships in Burma”.

One in a litany of expenses for foreign aid projects, which Trump represented as ridiculous, was “$ 45 million for diversity, justice and inclusion grants in Burma”.

There is no evidence that such scholarships have been planned. As the former representative Tom Malinowski emphasized, this claim seems to be an indication of a completely different program that helped to teach young people against Burma's military dictation that this claim was asserted by Elon Musk's “Department of Government Efficiency” for the first time by Elon Musk's “Department of Government Efficiency”.

It is not clear why Trump or Musk incorrectly thought that it was “diversity, justice and inclusion grants, but as Malinowski found, the USAID project description stated that the scholars were” from different background “. This seems to be an important policy, since the military dictatorship in Burma has exploited ethnic and religious divisions in order to stay in power.

Trump incorrectly suggested that millions of dead may receive social security payments

Trump pointed out that a database for the administration of social security comprises millions of people who are over 110 years old.

But as the Guardian has already reported when Musk claimed that “a fleeting examination of social security” showed that “we humans are 150 years old”, this is a deeply misleading way of talking about a real mistake in the social security system, which could enable fraud, but apparently not.

This mistake was revealed in a report by the independent general inspector for the social security authority from 2015, which found that the agency did not have death certificates for millions of people who had died. From 2015, the general inspector found that “about 6.5 million points from the age of 112 or older, who had no deaths in their files.

According to the report, only 13 people who had reached the age of 112 were made social security payments. At least one of these people was still alive and tweeted at the time the report was created in 2013.

When the report was issued in 2015, the oldest person was born with a social security number and no mortality act in her file in 1869, but no payments have yet been made to this person who would have been almost 150.

In fact, the social security administration has already determined a procedure for carrying out interviews with everyone who has reached the age of 100 to check whether they are alive and cannot be used by someone else to collect fraudulent payments.

Trump mistakenly claimed that a middle school in Florida had a 13-year-old child “gave way to socially”

Trump said that January has discovered Littlejohn, a mother from Tallahassee, Florida, that the middle school of her 13-year-old child had secretly changed her to a non-bobble transition from a woman without notifying the parents.

While Littlejohn made this case in a lawsuit, the lawsuit was rejected by a federal judge, and e -mails received by the Tallahasee Democrat newspaper showed that Littlejohn wrote to school in 2020 to inform a teacher that her child wanted to change pronouns.

The e -mails showed that Littlejohn worked with a teacher to determine how the situation can best be navigated and thanked the teacher for her help.

Trump returned an outdated survey to suggest that most Americans say that the United States is now in the right direction

“Now, for the first time in modern history,” Trump proclaimed early in his speech, “more Americans believe that our country goes in the right direction than in the wrong direction.”

In fact, Trump seemed to be quoting a single survey, which was published three weeks ago by the Republican election company Rasmussen, which showed an edge of 47% to 46% for the right direction over the wrong direction. However, the most recent survey of the same election company this week shows that 45% of the Americans are now saying that the country is on the right track and 50% say that it is on the wrong way.

How Polling expert Nate Silver found last year when it turned out that Rasmussen secretly showed its results in the Trump campaign: “This type of explicit coordination with a campaign, combined with unclears about the sources of financing, means that we are called Rasmussen as intrinsic partisan (R).”

Other election companies that are not connected to the Republican Party show that more Americans say that the country is now on the wrong path than on the right path.

The latest survey by Reuters/Ipsos at the end of February shows that 49% of Americans say that the country is on the way on the wrong route and only 34% say that the country is in the right direction.

In a survey by economists/YouGov, it was found last week that 50% of the Americans say that the country is in the wrong direction and only 38% say it was on the right track.

The last Morning Consult survey published on Sunday shows that the current spread 56% is up to 44% wrong. In the last week of the first Trump administration in 2021, Morning Consult found that 81% of the Americans said that the country was on the wrong lane, only 19%, on the right track.

Trump mistakenly claimed that Musk's cost reduction “found hundreds of billions of dollars” found “

Since the beginning of his work, Musk's “Department of Government Efficiency” has repeatedly claimed to have “fraud” just to have examples that he stated that they have invented. The most striking example that the government planned to spend $ 50 million for the fate of condoms in Gaza turned out to be completely fictional.

As the New York Times reported on Monday, receipts published online by Musk's “Department of Government Efficiency” by Musk's “Department of Government Efficiency” published less than $ 9 billion in savings from canceled government contracts, none of which were involved.