{"id":165474,"date":"2025-09-23T19:53:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T19:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/fact-check-donald-trumps-false-and-misleading-claims-during-his-un-address-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T19:53:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T19:53:02","slug":"fact-check-donald-trumps-false-and-misleading-claims-during-his-un-address-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/fact-check-donald-trumps-false-and-misleading-claims-during-his-un-address-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact-check: Donald Trump\u2019s false and misleading claims during his UN address – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US president made at least five spurious claims ranging from climate change and immigration to ending wars
Donald Trump<\/a> repeatedly made false and misleading claims during his address to the United Nations general assembly on Tuesday.
Here are the facts on some of the false claims offered during Trump\u2019s speech.
What <\/em>Trump said: <\/em>
<\/path><\/svg>I want to thank the country of El Salvador for the successful and professional job they\u2019ve done in receiving and jailing so many criminals that entered our country, and it was under the previous administration that the number became record setting, and they\u2019re all being taken out.<\/em>
The facts: <\/strong>Of the 238 Venezuelans deported to El Salvador\u2019s sprawling so-called Terrorism Confinement Prison (Cecot) last March, the vast majority \u2013 around 90% \u2013 had no criminal record in the United States, numerous investigations by news organizations showed. Most of the exceptions had convictions for non-violent offenses like shoplifting and traffic violations. The administration had accused all the deportees of being members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.
US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) documented a record number of encounters with undocumented immigrants at the southern border during Joe Biden\u2019s presidency, before the number of entrants dipped sharply. But although the numbers of people with criminal records also increased, the percentage with prior criminal records did not reach record levels and in fact remained low.
What Trump said:
<\/path><\/svg>The UN has such tremendous potential. I\u2019ve always said it. All they seem to do is write a really strongly worded letter and then never follow that letter up. It\u2019s empty words, and empty words don\u2019t solve war. The only thing that solves war and wars is action.<\/em>
The president also repeated his claim to have \u201cended seven wars\u201d.
The facts: <\/strong>The UN has succeeded in resolving numerous conflicts since its founding in 1945 and has provided multiple peacekeeping missions. Notable examples are the 1988 settlement that ended the Iran-Iraq war after eight years of fighting that cost an estimated 1 million lives on both sides. It has also successfully ended several civil wars, notably in Namibia, El Salvador, Mozambique and Cambodia. The body has also noted failures, such as its failure to prevent genocide in Rwanda and Bosnia in the 1990s.
Analysts have assessed the president\u2019s claim to have \u201cended\u201d several wars as highly problematic. For instance, while a ceasefire brokered with US and Qatari involvement ended 12 days of fighting between Israel and Iran in June, it followed Trump\u2019s dramatic decision to bomb Iranian uranium-enrichment facilities in Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan that he had previously vowed to address through negotiations. Several analysts have publicly doubted that the disagreement over Iran\u2019s nuclear ambitions has been resolved and warn that the conflict could re-ignite.
While White House intervention has ended outbreaks of fighting in other global hot spots \u2013 for example, between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, or Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh \u2013 the agreements in many respects appear fragile, interim or unratified.
Meanwhile, Trump\u2019s pre-election vows to end the long-running wars between Russia and Ukraine, and between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, remain unfulfilled.
What Trump said:
<\/path><\/svg>We\u2019ve taken bold action to swiftly shut down uncontrolled migration. Once we started detaining and deporting everyone who crossed the border and removing illegal aliens from the United States, they simply stopped coming.
Trump also attributed immigration rates in Europe to a \u2026 :
<\/path><\/svg>\u2026 globalist migration agenda \u2026 It\u2019s time to end the failed experiment of open borders. You have to end it now. Your countries are going to hell.
The facts: <\/strong>Shutting down uncontrolled migration has been a central claim for Trump since his inauguration and indeed, illegal border crossings have dropped to their lowest level in decades in the first months of his presidency. But migration experts have warned that the issue is complex and that uncontrolled migration has not been ended. Furthermore, many of the administration\u2019s remedies have suffered reversals in the courts.
The claim that European countries \u201care going to hell\u201d thanks to an open border policy is emotive, subjective and, arguably, impervious to fact-checking. Many European nation states cite both cultural and economic benefits from immigration, despite the fact that tensions and challenges also result.
Furthermore, \u201copen borders\u201d is a problematic and misleading description, and European countries are not operating such a policy. Most European Union and Schengen agreement countries allow free movement and an absence of border checks at their internal borders but implement strict external border checks. Britain, where immigration remains a sensitive topic, ended freedom of movement and instituted a points-based immigration system when it left the EU in 2020.
What Trump said:
Europe would \u2026 :
<\/path><\/svg> \u2026 have to join<\/em> [the US] <\/em>in adopting the exact same measures [tariffs on Russia] if the war continued.<\/em>
You\u2019re much closer to the city. We have an ocean in between. You\u2019re right there, and Europe has to step it up. They can\u2019t be doing what they\u2019re doing. They\u2019re buying oil and gas from Russia.<\/em>
The facts:<\/strong> The claim that European countries \u2013 most of which have limited oil resources \u2013 are continuing to buy oil and gas from Russia despite its invasion of Ukraine is an oversimplification and, in large part, inaccurate. The EU still buys some of these resources from Moscow but at significantly reduced levels compared with before 2022, when the bloc banned most Russian oil imports.
Moreover, the countries that continue to take Russian oil include Hungary, whose prime minister, Viktor Orb\u00e1n, is a noted admirer of Trump. Hungary\u2019s foreign minister, P\u00e9ter Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3, confirmed this week<\/a> that the country would continue to accept Russia energy. Slovakia, whose populist prime minister, Robert Fico, addressed this year\u2019s CPAC conference in Maryland, also receives Russian oil and gas through pipelines.
The EU has banned the import of seaborne Russian crude and refined products and plans to phase out energy imports from Russia by 2027. But this depends on unanimous approval for sanctions.
What Trump said:
He dismissed renewable energy projects and called climate change \u2026 :
<\/path><\/svg>\u2026 the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world. All of these predictions made by the United Nations and many others, often for bad reasons, were wrong.<\/em>
The facts:<\/strong> There is a broad scientific consensus that the earth has been heating up since the birth of the industrial revolution. A 2021 paper found that between 91% and 100% of all scientists agreed that human activity was causing climate change.
Renewable energy products have been found to be effective, affordable and sustainable. Their use has the benefit of contributing to reduced carbon emissions characteristic of fossil fuel power plants that produce greenhouse gases.<\/p>\n

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