Fact check: Trump makes false claims about the economy, elections and crime in State of the Union

Many of them were long-debunked falsehoods familiar from his rallies, interviews and social media posts. These include various lies disparaging the fairness of US elections, his false claim that he ended wars that were never actually wars or never actually ended, and his fictional “$18 trillion” figure for supposed investment in the US over the past year.

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/24/politics/fact-check-state-of-the-union