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** FactChecking Trump's "60 Minutes" Interview
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On Sunday evening, CBS News' “60 Minutes” aired an interview with President Donald Trump, posting a longer hour-plus video online along with the transcript from the full conversation correspondent Norah O'Donnell had with Trump. Several members of our staff fact-checked it ([link removed]) .

As we wrote ([link removed]) , Trump made false and questionable claims about nuclear weapons testing, inflation and military strikes in the Caribbean Sea. He also repeated numerous misleading claims he has made before on a range of topics — the Insurrection Act, ending wars, federal indictments, the autopen, aid to Ukraine and the 2020 election.

The president justified telling the Pentagon “to start testing” U.S. nuclear weapons by misleadingly saying that “other countries are testing.” Trump said: "We’re the only country that doesn’t test, and … I don’t want to be the only country that doesn’t test.”

Russia recently tested two nuclear-capable weapons, but that's not equivalent to testing an exploding nuclear bomb. North Korea is the only country to do a nuclear weapon test explosion this century. And the U.S. Energy Department says its National Nuclear Security Administration already periodically tests the “safety, security, reliability, and effectiveness of America’s nuclear warheads” with “subcritical experiments” that don’t require explosive testing.

Inflation came up several times throughout the interview. Trump falsely said that “we don’t have inflation. It’s at 2%.” The Consumer Price Index rose 3% year-over-year in September. And grocery prices have gone up, not down, as Trump said.

He did not inherit “the worst inflation rate” in U.S. history, as he also said. Inflation did rise substantially during the first half of President Joe Biden’s term, but it was never the worst in history — and the annualized inflation rate was below 3% for the six months before Trump returned to the White House.

For more on these and other claims, read our full story, “FactChecking Trump’s ‘60 Minutes’ Interview ([link removed]) .”
IN THE NEWS
Former Vice President Dick Cheney, who died ([link removed]) this week at 84, helped to put FactCheck.org on the map in 2004 when he cited us ([link removed]) during a televised vice presidential debate. Cheney actually botched our name, calling us “FactCheck.com.” Nonetheless, as FactCheck.org director emeritus Brooks Jackson recounted ([link removed]) on our 15th anniversary, “the press attention sent hundreds of thousands of new visitors to our website, so many that our rudimentary server crashed and had to be beefed up for the remainder of the campaign. We had arrived.”
FEATURED FACT
Nearly 42 million Americans received monthly benefits in fiscal year 2024 from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — formerly known as food stamps. The SNAP program ran out of money to pay those benefits on Nov. 1 due to the government shutdown. Republicans and Democrats disagreed over whether a contingency fund could be used to partially cover the shortfall. Ultimately, a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to continue paying SNAP benefits. Read more: “Democrats and Republicans Clash Over SNAP Contingency Funds ([link removed]) .”
WORTHY OF NOTE
This year's Brooks Jackson Prize for Fact-Checking ([link removed]) , presented as part of the biennial Walter Cronkite Awards for Excellence in Political Journalism, goes to Salt Lake City's KSL-TV 5 for the news station's "Truth Test" series.

The NBC affiliate launched the fact-checking series during the 2024 legislative session, holding politicians from Utah accountable and providing its viewers with the facts behind political claims.

All of the 2025 Walter Cronkite Awards, presented by the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, were announced ([link removed]) this week. The awards "recognize outstanding political journalism on television and digital media that meets the highest standards of reporting and analysis," the press release on the awards said.

FactCheck.org's parent organization, the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, partners with the Cronkite Awards to present the Brooks Jackson Prize, named for our co-founder. The judges found KSL-TV 5's series to be "clear, informative, even-handed and well researched." The station said its efforts were “met with gratitude and requests for more of this type of public service journalism.”


** Wrapping Up
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Here's what else we've got for you this week:
* Explaining Democrats’ Request to Restore Foreign Aid ([link removed])
Q: Did Democrats request funding for “climate resilience” in Honduras, “civic engagement” in Zimbabwe, and “LGBTQI+ democracy grants” in the Balkans, to end the government shutdown?
A: A Democratic proposal would restore almost $5 billion in unused funding for foreign aid that President Donald Trump let expire on Sept. 30. The proposal did not specify which international projects should receive the funds.

Y lo que publicamos en español ([link removed]) (English versions are accessible in each story):
* Afirmaciones contrapuestas sobre quién se beneficia de los subsidios de la ACA ([link removed])
En medio del estancamiento político creado por el vencimiento de los créditos fiscales de la Ley de Cuidado de la Salud Asequible (ACA, por sus siglas en inglés), los demócratas hacen hincapié en el aumento de miles de dólares en las primas para los estadounidenses de “clase trabajadora” o media, mientras que los republicanos afirman que las personas con mayores recursos se benefician injustamente de los subsidios.

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