US President Donald Trump delivered the longest address to Congress in modern history, speaking for one hour and 47 minutes while declaring that the "country is winning again".
But the 107-minute-long speech also included a series of claims that were exaggerated, misleading or unsupported by available evidence, a trademark of Trump's addresses.
While many of them were familiar claims proven false before, including the one about him ending eight wars, there were some which were fresh off the mill.
Here are some of the false claims made by the president during his address:
Inflation
"The Biden administration and its allies in Congress gave us the worst inflation in the history of our country, but in 12 months, my administration has driven core inflation down to the lowest level in more than five years, and in the last three months of 2025, it was down to 1.7%."
Inflation has indeed cooled in recent months, but the claim that the United States experienced the worst inflation in its history under President Joe Biden is incorrect.
The annual inflation rate reached a 40-year high of 9.1 per cent in June 2022, following global price shocks triggered by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. However, this was far below the all-time US inflation peak of 23.7 per centrecorded in 1920.
By December 2024, Biden's final full month in office, inflation had already fallen to 2.9 per cent, and stood at 3.0 per cent when Trump took office in January 2025. The most recent figure, for January 2026,...
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