As usual, President Donald Trump made numerous false claims in his televised Cabinet meeting on Tuesday. And, as usual, most of them had previously been debunked.
Trump repeated familiar false claims about consumer prices, investment in the US, foreign affairs, public safety, the 2020 election, and his signature domestic policy legislation, among other topics.
Here is a fact check of 13 of his inaccurate assertions, plus one more that needs context.
Grocery prices: Trump repeated his false claim that “grocery prices are down.” They’re up. The most recent available Consumer Price Index figures, for September, show average grocery prices were up about 2.7% from September 2024; about 1.4% from January 2025, the month Trump returned to office; and about 0.3% from August to September.
Prescription drug prices: Trump repeated his false claim that an executive order he issued on prescription drug prices will “slash drug prices by 200%, 300%, 400%, 500%, 600%, 700%, 800%,” adding, “Nobody’s ever heard of it before”; later in the meeting, he used a “900%” figure. Nobody has heard of such reductions because they are mathematically impossible; if the president magically got the companies to reduce the prices of all of their drugs to $0, that would be a 100% cut. You can read a longer fact check here.
Inflation under Trump: Trump falsely claimed, “Since last January, we’ve stopped inflation in its tracks.” That’s a vague phrase, but it’s not true by any reasonable definition of “...
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