Since the State of the Union speech is one of the most highly visible speeches of any year, it’s an obvious occasion for the “independent fact-checkers” to assess the claims of the president (and theoretically, the official rebuttal from the other party). But how tilted can it be when you compare presidents?
PolitiFact quickly posted its list of Trump checks on Wednesday, and they put their rulings in bold type. Six claims were “False,” and three were “Mostly False,” and another two were “Half True.”
Let’s not question every ruling, but just count them. Trump has a habit of exaggerating something like say, inflation under Biden into “fact check” territory, saying “we suffered the worst inflation in 48 years, but perhaps even in the history of our country, they’re not sure.”
A year ago, PolitiFact performed the same checking exercise…
