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40%credibility1 / 6 / 3

Why this score Assigned based on institutional history and track record.

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Tonight, I'm officially terminating Biden's expensive and unnecessary methane regulations to save consumers and energy producers $45 billion in costs, unlock vast quantities of Texas natural gas and produce 210 million barrels of oil.

Mixed. Both figures come from the EPA's own projections for 2027–2050; the $45 billion is modelled economic surplus, most of it industry compliance savings. But nothing was terminated: the EPA issued a proposal, and the 2024 standards stay in force while it is open for comment (EPA, FR Doc. 2026-22082).

climate change/us federal policy·source ↗

? unverified
I will if they're honest elections

The president, asked by reporters on 27 October whether he would respect the results whatever the outcome. A conditional undertaking whose condition is his own to judge, so it cannot be scored as stated; it is read against what he says once each chamber is certified.

us midterms 2026·source ↗

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New and large, in some cases gigantic, Data enters are mandated by me to make their own electricity, and give or sell any excess back to the local community, or grid, and therefore there is electric price increase. In fact, there could be a substantial decrease

Unverified, quoted as CNBC printed the post. Neither CNBC nor the Northeast Times cites any order or rule that requires data centres to generate their own power. The Times found none posted as of October 22. The March Ratepayer Protection Pledge is voluntary.

state of ai/infrastructure/grid and ratepayers·source ↗

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I have spent, or will be spending, over 400 Million Dollars by Election Day. More than 300 Million Dollars has already been spent on Advertising, Direct and Indirect Voter Contact, Rallies, Rally Arenas, Telerallies, Get Out the Vote Programs, Election Integrity, and more.

Not yet checkable: spending through Election Day is first filed in the post-general report. By 14 October, MAGA Inc. and the two super PACs it funds had spent about $293 million, counting money once (FEC). Some of the money is reportedly a non-profit’s, which files no such reports.

us midterms 2026/the money/maga inc·source ↗

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Asked about the Starshield speed limit, Trump said any change “wasn’t me” and that, from what he understood, “it’s the same as it’s always been.”

Mixed. The service did change: ISW reads Unmanned Systems Forces data as showing the cap significantly degraded Ukraine’s strike drones from 14 October, and Ukrainian officials told the New York Times on 21 October that drones still lose the link above 100 mph. Who ordered it is unsettled: Reuters’ sources say the White House, the Wall Street Journal says Musk.

ukraine russia war/tactics·source ↗

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They gave them massive amount of Patriots, Tomahawks, everything

Mixed. The United States did supply Ukraine with Patriot systems and interceptors under the previous administration. No transfer of Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine has ever been confirmed: Kyiv asked for them, and no delivery has been made public (Hromadske).

ukraine russia war/weapons procurement·source ↗

✗ false
Effective immediately, there is an ENERGY CEASEFIRE in the War between Russia and Ukraine. Both parties have agreed. Do not break it!

False on agreement. Neither government confirmed it: Zelenskyy called it news to him and the Kremlin said only that contacts continued. Trump said next day they agreed ‘because I said, “You agreed”’; Peskov on October 14 said the truce ‘was not specified’ (CNN, Kyiv Post).

ukraine russia war/peace negotiations·source ↗

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I have just concluded a highly successful discussion with President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, wherein it was agreed that Russia will immediately supply over 300,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel to the American and Global Marketplace, another 500,000 Tons during the month of November, and 1,000,000 Tons immediately thereafter

Unverified — November has not passed. Since Russia partly lifted its export ban on October 10, Kpler and LSEG data show two Primorsk diesel cargoes of about 300,000 barrels each, to Turkey and Brazil; Novak announced a first 40,000-tonne US cargo for October 22.

ukraine russia war/russian war economy·source ↗

? unverified
Progress has been made toward a permanent US Army base in Poland, which currently hosts American troops only on a rotational basis: ‘If this happens, the location will be announced very soon. This will be a historic step for our Great U.S./Polish Alliance.’

Posted to Truth Social on September 17, 2026; the post is unreadable publicly, so the wording rests on NPR, which Notes from Poland matches. By September 23 no location was named: Poland’s president said ‘the infrastructure is being chosen right now’. ‘Very soon’ is read as by end-2026.

ukraine russia war/nato relations·source ↗

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Mr. Zelenskyy has to do one thing: He has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia. There are plenty of other targets. Don’t hit diesel fuel. That’s hurting the world.

Said to reporters at the Amgen Irish Open in Doonbeg on September 13, 2026. Whether the strikes are what is ‘hurting the world’ is disputed: analysts quoted by Al Jazeera put the larger share of the diesel price rise on the Iran war. US diesel was about $6.20 a gallon.

ukraine russia war/peace negotiations·source ↗

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I think I have like close to $1 billion in the super PAC. And I’m allocating probably $400 or $500 million [to the midterms]. So I’ll be spending.

The super PAC held less than half that. MAGA Inc. reported $415.8 million on hand at 31 August, four days before he spoke, having raised $424.4 million (FEC). An allied non-profit that files no such reports is reported to hold more; that is unconfirmed. The $400 to $500 million allocation is within what the PAC held; it had spent $32 million.

us midterms 2026/the money/maga inc·source ↗

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Oh, he'd do it if I wanted it. But I want to do it when we're ready to make a peace deal. … I want to do it when that war is ending, and I think we will.

Said in the Oval Office on 2 September. It mirrors Moscow: two days earlier the Kremlin said a summit is possible “only to formalize agreements.” Both capitals now place the meeting at signing — which, with no agreement drafted, defers it indefinitely.

ukraine russia war/peace negotiations·source ↗

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The only reason that communities throughout the U.S.A. should not want Data Centers is if they want to end up being backwards and poor. If they want to be successful and rich, with far lower taxes and jobs all over the place, let Data Reign.

Mixed. Construction pay is real — a union worker at an Ohio site told NBC News he can clear $5,000 in a week. Permanent jobs are not: a causal study found data centers create almost none, and New Jersey approved up to $250m of credits for a campus projecting 143 permanent posts. On taxes, states are withdrawing the breaks, not lowering bills.

state of ai/infrastructure·source ↗

✓ true
The United States has not agreed to give Ukraine a licence to build Patriot interceptors, reversing the pledge Trump made at the Ankara summit on 8 July.

True. The New York Times reported on 31 July that Trump told reporters 'We have not agreed to that,' having changed his mind because 'it is a hard thing to give away that kind of technology.' The reversal was corroborated on 4 August by the US ambassador to NATO, who said only US manufacturers may build the interceptors. (The NYT page was blocked on direct fetch and read via the Wayback Machine.)

ukraine russia war/air defence·source ↗

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Electricity bills for American families will actually come down. They're going to have a lot of electricity left over, and they'll put that into the grid.

Not yet checkable on a 2028 horizon, and the evidence runs the other way: ICF projects monthly bills up 15 to 40 percent by 2030, and PJM’s market monitor attributes $6.3bn of one auction’s $16.4bn in capacity charges to data centres. Resolves on EIA residential price data.

state of ai/infrastructure·source ↗

✗ false
I believe Vladimir Putin is ready to reach a peace agreement soon and I hope the war will conclude during my administration.

False. Three days later Peskov restated Putin's June 2024 terms — Ukrainian withdrawal from four oblasts, no NATO — as Russia's conditions, and Moscow and Washington published incompatible accounts of what Anchorage agreed. A party ready to settle soon does not dispute the last agreement's existence (ISW, 22–23 July).

ukraine russia war/peace negotiations·source ↗

✗ false
We'll give them the right to make Patriots. We'll show them how to do it. I think they can produce them pretty quickly.

False. The pledge was withdrawn within three weeks. On 31 July Trump said 'We have not agreed to that,' explaining it is 'a hard thing to give away that kind of technology'; on 4 August the US ambassador to NATO said only US manufacturers may build the interceptors. No licence was ever published by the State Department or its export-control directorate, and no company announced a contract.

ukraine russia war/air defence·source ↗

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Remember how it started. No getting back Obama given Crimea (12 years ago, without a shot being fired!), and NO GOING INTO NATO BY UKRAINE. Some things never change!!!

As a statement of US policy it proved accurate: the administration had ruled out NATO membership since February 2025 and the position held through the 2025-26 peace negotiations. Re-checked 27 July 2026 and still holding, on two further pieces of evidence: the Ankara summit declaration of 8 July 2026 became the second consecutive declaration with no reference to Ukraine's membership path, and on 27 July the Pentagon opened a Europe Posture Review whose stated purpose is to move the alliance 'fast and irreversibly toward Europe taking primary responsibility for its conventional defense' — a direction of travel away from, not toward, enlargement commitments. The historical claim that Crimea was taken 'without a shot being fired' is false — at least two Ukrainian soldiers were shot dead by Russian forces in Crimea in 2014 and the minesweeper Cherkasy was attacked (per BBC). Verdict unchanged at mixed: the policy half accumulates corroboration, the historical half remains false.

ukraine russia war/nato relations·source ↗