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** Trump's 100th Day Spin
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April 29 marked the 100th day of President Donald Trump's second term. He spoke that day at a rally in Michigan, and he was interviewed by ABC News. Days earlier, Time published its "100 Days" interview of the president. Our staff reviewed all of those remarks, and documented several false, misleading and questionable claims.

For instance:
* The president insisted that an immigrant who was deported to El Salvador has tattoos on his knuckles that say “M-S-one-three,” but the actual letters and numbers in a photo Trump shared are an “obvious digital manipulation,” an expert told us.
* Trump said the FBI had confirmed that “gangs have been sent by the foreign regime in Venezuela” to the U.S. Anonymous sources told one news outlet that the FBI backed up Trump’s claim, but other unnamed sources have said 17 intelligence agencies disagreed with that assessment.
* Trump took credit for recent increases in military recruiting, but those gains began under his predecessor and before he won reelection in November.
* He misleadingly said that a House Republican budget resolution that aims to cut about $800 billion in Medicaid spending over a decade would “look at waste, fraud, and abuse,” adding that “nobody minds that.” One expert told us the cuts are “orders of magnitude too large to not be destructive.”
* The president claimed that since January, “job gains for native-born Americans now exceed job gains for foreign workers … for the first time in nobody even knows when.” But there were several two-month periods in 2024 when native-born employment exceeded gains in foreign-born employment, which includes U.S. citizens born abroad.

For more on these claims and others (on business investments, food dye bans, right/wrong track surveys, tourism, inflation, trade deficits and more), read the full story: “Trump's 100th Day Spin ([link removed]) .”
HOW WE KNOW
This week, we looked at several of Trump's campaign promises -- things he said would happen immediately, such as closing the border. And in his first 100 days, illegal immigration has slowed to a trickle. Among other actions, Trump issued an executive order declaring a national emergency at the southern border and cut off the ability of migrants to seek asylum at the border. Data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection show ([link removed]) that apprehensions of migrants who illegally crossed from Mexico in February and March fell to 8,346 and 7,181 — the lowest monthly totals since at least the 1960s ([link removed]) . That’s an 83% drop from November (46,615) and December (47,324) of 2024, the last two full months under President Joe Biden. Read more: "Tracking Trump’s Promises at the 100-Day Mark
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FEATURED FACTS
The main finding of a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention publication ([link removed]) on autism is that among 8-year-olds at the selected study sites, 1 in 31 had autism in 2022. But the report notes that the CDC's observed prevalence rates are not directly comparable over time, nor are they representative of the autism rate in the entire country. The figure represents just a few places in the United States — in 2022, for example, the data comes from 16 sites, up from 11 two years prior. And there's variation among sites that indicates better identification or services. Around 1 in 19 children were recorded as having autism at a site in the San Diego area, while just 1 in 103 children were recorded as having autism at the Laredo, Texas, site. Read more: "RFK Jr. Misleads on Autism Prevalence, Causes ([link removed]) ."
WORTHY OF NOTE

We are honored to have won a 2025 National Headliner Award ([link removed]) for online beat reporting of government and political coverage. Our work fact-checking Trump on immigration issues won the first-place award in that category.

Staffers Robert Farley, Catalina Jaramillo, D’Angelo Gore and Lori Robertson were the authors of the three articles that made up our entry. They explained ([link removed]) a bipartisan immigration bill and the misinformation about it, interviewed experts ([link removed]) in the U.S. and Venezuela about Trump's repeated claim that the country was emptying its prisons and sending criminals to the U.S., and debunked ([link removed]) several other immigration claims Trump made on the campaign trail in southwestern swing states.

The judges wrote: "Factcheck.org performed a valuable service for voters by combing through Donald Trump’s claims about America’s immigration problems — false or unsubstantiated claims that would form the basis of his policies — and providing correct information. The reporting is thorough, fair and helpful and deserves commendation."

We thank the judges and the National Headliner Awards, which were founded in 1934 by the Press Club of Atlantic City.
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