State of the Union, Trump
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In the first State of the Union address of his second term, President Donald Trump proclaimed that "our nation is back, bigger, better, richer and stronger than ever before." But our review of his speech found that he distorted a number of facts about the state of the economy,
Most major network and cable news channels will broadcast Trump’s address. The White House’s YouTube channel will also stream the event starting at 9 p.m. EST.
PolitiFact is live fact-checking President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address to Congress Feb. 24. PolitiFact has fact-checked 1,144 of Trump ’s statements since 2011. Tonight, we’ll draw on that deep archive to check his speech’s accuracy.
As President Trump delivered his State of the Union address, reporters from across NPR's newsroom, are fact checking his speech and offer context.