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As expected, Trump told numerous lies in his "100 days" interview with Time Magazine
https://time.com/7280129/donald-trump-fact-check-2025-interview/
Trump's lie: “We were losing $2 trillion a year on trade.”
The Facts: The US had a trade deficit with the rest of the world of $917.8 billion in 2024, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. But this isn’t money “lost ”; it’s an indication that the U.S. is importing more goods and
services from other countries than it is exporting to the rest of the world. The
U.S. trade deficit on just goods was actually higher at $1.2 trillion. That figure is offset by America’s $295 billion trade surplus on services.
Trump's lie: “Many criminals—they emptied their prisons, many countries, almost
every country, but not a complete emptying, but some countries a complete emptying of their prison system.”
The Facts: While Trump has frequently made this claim, there is no evidence that
it is true. The Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, is among the groups that have researched such assertions.
“While it’s not possible to know what has animated this repeated allegation, the
only prior instance we can think of is the Mariel boatlift in 1980,” says Michelle Mittelstadt, MPI’s director of communications, in an email to TIME. “Castro allowed about 125,000 Cubans to leave amid deep economic problems and political unrest. A small minority of these were released from prison (where Cuba detained many political dissidents) or mental health institutions. This is the only instance we are aware of.”
Trump's lie: “I built hundreds of miles of wall, and then he didn't want to, and
we had another, an extra hundred miles that I could have put up because I ordered it as extra. I completed the wall, what I was doing, but we have, I wanted to build additional because it was working so well. An extension. And he didn't want to do that.”
The Facts: Trump did build hundreds of miles of wall in his first term, most of which *replaced or supported* existing fencing. The barrier cost U.S. taxpayers some $11 billion and was breached by smugglers more than 3,200 times over three years, according to a 2022 Washington Post report. Biden tried to redirect funds
Trump had allocated to build the wall, but a 2019 law stipulated that funds allocated to the wall could not be used for other purposes. [emphasis added]
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Apr 25, 2025 3:02 AM PT
Fact-Checking What Donald Trump Said in His ‘100 Days’ Interview With TIME
Politics
Donald Trump
President Donald Trump at the White House on April 22, 2025.Martin Schoeller for
TIME
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On April 22, just ahead of the 100th day of his second term, President Donald Trump sat down for an interview with TIME in the White House.
TIME has published the transcript of that conversation. Below is a review of some of Trump’s statements from the interview.
What Trump Said: “We were losing $2 trillion a year on trade.”
The Facts: The US had a trade deficit with the rest of the world of $917.8 billion in 2024, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. But this isn’t money “lost ”; it’s an indication that the U.S. is importing more goods and
services from other countries than it is exporting to the rest of the world. The
U.S. trade deficit on just goods was actually higher at $1.2 trillion. That figure is offset by America’s $295 billion trade surplus on services.
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What Trump Said: “Many criminals—they emptied their prisons, many countries,
almost every country, but not a complete emptying, but some countries a complete
emptying of their prison system.”
The Facts: While Trump has frequently made this claim, there is no evidence that
it is true. The Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, is among the groups that have researched such assertions.
“While it’s not possible to know what has animated this repeated allegation, the
only prior instance we can think of is the Mariel boatlift in 1980,” says Michelle Mittelstadt, MPI’s director of communications, in an email to TIME. “Castro allowed about 125,000 Cubans to leave amid deep economic problems and political unrest. A small minority of these were released from prison (where Cuba detained many political dissidents) or mental health institutions. This is the only instance we are aware of.”
What Trump Said: “I built hundreds of miles of wall, and then he didn't want to,
and we had another, an extra hundred miles that I could have put up because I ordered it as extra. I completed the wall, what I was doing, but we have, I wanted to build additional because it was working so well. An extension. And he didn't want to do that.”
The Facts: Trump did build hundreds of miles of wall in his first term, most of which replaced or supported existing fencing. The barrier cost U.S. taxpayers some $11 billion and was breached by smugglers more than 3,200 times over three years, according to a 2022 Washington Post report. Biden tried to redirect funds
Trump had allocated to build the wall, but a 2019 law stipulated that funds allocated to the wall could not be used for other purposes.
Trump's lie: “The prices of groceries have gone down.”
The Facts: Total food prices increased 3% in March, year over year, according to
the federal Consumer Price Index. Grocery prices, specifically, rose 2.4% during
that period and rose 0.5% since February. Eggs, meat, fish, and poultry saw the sharpest price increases over the last year, jumping 7.9%. In 2025, food prices are expected to increase 3.2%, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Grocery prices, specifically, are expected to increase 2.7%.
Trump's lie: “We're taking in billions of dollars of tariffs, by the way.”
The Facts: U.S. Customs and Border Protection said the U.S. was taking in about $500 million per day in tariff revenue, CNBC reported on April 16. Since his April 2 tariff announcement, Trump has repeatedly claimed the U.S. was taking in
$2 billion per day from tariffs. Tariffs are a tax paid by the companies importing goods from other countries. Economists say the increased costs are usually [always] passed on to consumers.
Trump's lie: “We had no inflation [in Trump's first term]. We had the highest inflation we've ever had as a country [under Biden], or very close to it. And I believe it was the highest ever. Somebody said it's the highest in only 48 years.”
The Facts: The Federal Reserve has long viewed 2% as its target inflation rate for the US economy. In January 2020, at the end of Trump’s first term, the inflation rate was 2.5%. Under Joe Biden, it rose to 8% in 2022, the highest inflation the country had seen since 1980, when it hit 13.5%. By the end of Biden’s term, inflation dropped to 2.9%.
Trump's lie: “Look, that's what China did to us. They charge us 100%. If you look at India—India charges 100-150%. If you look at Brazil, if you look at many, many countries, they charge—that's how they survive.”
The Facts: In 2024, India’s average tariff on U.S. goods was 17%; Its tariffs on
U.S. agricultural products were 39%. In January 2025, Chinese tariffs on U.S. exports were 21%. Trump and others in the Administration have suggested [with *zero* evidence] that some countries engage in “non-tariff cheating” such as
currency manipulation, intellectual property theft, and dumping cheaper products
into U.S. markets that amount to a higher tariff rate.
Trump's lie: ”We have crime rates under Biden that went through the roof, and we
have to bring those rates down. And unfortunately, those rates have been added to by the illegal immigrants that he allowed into the country.”
The Facts: In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic and Trump’s last year in office, violent crime rose sharply. According to the Centers for Disease Control, the homicide rate rose 30% between 2019 and 2020— the highest in modern
history, while assault rates increased by more than 10%.
Trump's lie: “Because I've watched in Portland and I watched in Seattle, and I've watched in Minneapolis, Minnesota and other places. People do heinous acts,
far more serious than what took place on Jan. 6. And nothing happened to these people. Nothing.”
The Facts: Trump is comparing the prosecutions of those involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol to protesters who broke laws following the murder of George Floyd by a police officer in May 2020.
In 2021, the Associated Press reviewed thousands of pages of court documents in hundreds of federal cases connected to the George Floyd protests. The investigation found that “dozens of people charged have been convicted of serious crimes and sent to prison.”
The comparison between how law enforcement handled the Capitol riot and the Floyd protests is flawed, Kent Greenfield, a professor at Boston College Law School, told the AP in 2021. “The property damage or accusations of arson and looting from [the George Floyd protests], those were serious and they were dealt
with seriously, but they weren’t an attack on the very core constitutional processes that we rely on in a democracy, nor were they an attack on the United States Congress.”
https://time.com/7280129/donald-trump-fact-check-2025-interview/
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