Donald Trump's speech in Warren, Michigan marked his 100th day of office sounded a lot like something the president obviously liked: a good old-fashioned sports rally.
In a speech on April 29, Trump touted a record-breaking executive order in an effort to cut federal labor and illegal immigrants’ deportation, which drew attention in the video, showing that deportation was booked as a high-security El Salvador prison.
But Trump has also returned to the theme of animated campaigns and searched for familiar faces in the crowd. "I miss you guys. I missed the campaign," he said. Trump mentioned his former former president, Joe Biden several times, once the audience was investigated: "What is the better name for us to call him 'Sleepy Joe' or 'Crooked Joe?'.
As polls show approval ratings declined, Trump continued to shoot in the survey, calling them "fake" and said his approval rating would be "in the 60s or 70s" if the poll was honest.
Five polls released in Trump's Day 100 game - from CBS News, CNN, The New York Times/Siena, ABC News/Washington Post and NPR/PBS/Marist - found Trump's approval ratings ranged from 42% to 45%.
Here we do a fact-check on several Trump statements.
"I ban all government censorship and restore freedom of speech in the United States. We have freedom of speech," Trump said. The Trump administration has repeatedly acted to exercise its right to freedom of speech by people and organizations, including news media participating in the Israeli war on Gaza, universities and students.
“President Trump certainly did not bring back free speech in the United States,” said Nico Perrino, executive vice president of the Foundation for Personal Rights and Expression, which defends freedom of speech for people and groups on both sides of the political spectrum.
“In fact, since inauguration day, we have seen some of the most important threats to freedom of speech in recent memory.”
Several judges also said the government violated freedom of speech, including cases filed after U.S. news reporters were banned from attending White House events because the group did not call the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America."
A federal judge ruled in support of the Associated Press, saying: "The Associated Press's exclusion runs contrary to the First Amendment" and directed the administration to stop "continuing this illegal path."
"We have set a record for the lowest illegal crossing ever," Trump said.
This requires context. Monthly border data have been collected since 2000.
Immigration on the southern U.S. border has dropped significantly in the first few months of the Trump administration.
Immigration officials encountered immigrants around 8,300 times in February and 7,200 in March. These border encounters are the lowest number of unrecorded immigrants crossings per month since the Border Patrol began reporting monthly data. Officials recorded 11,000 encounters during the first few downturns in April 2020 during Trump’s first semester.
Before 2000, data were reported annually. We took annual federal data and divided it by 12 to find the average monthly figure. According to these calculations, from 1961 to 1968, the average monthly worries were below 6,100.
Trump said egg prices — consumer attention in recent months — his watch has dropped 87%. That's the right half: Wholesale prices have fallen (although not as much as Trump says), but the decline has not affected retail prices yet.
During Biden's administration, more than 100 million egg chickens died of bird flu or were killed to stop the spread of the virus. Flock sales are the standard practice adopted by the President in two political parties to address bird flu. But preventive measures in the Biden era have led to shortages of eggs and higher prices. This lasted for President Trump.
On February 21, the wholesale price of twelve eggs reached $8.07. Since then, it has fallen 61% to $3.15.
However, the latest data on retail prices - prices consumers pay in stores - show the price of twelve eggs for March is $6.23. April data may show a decrease in retail prices, but the data has not yet been reduced.
In Michigan, Trump said on several previous occasions that gasoline is priced at $1.98 per gallon (3.8 liters) in some states. This is wrong.
When he said on April 22 this year, we found that the lowest price in the state was $2.66 per gallon, and the national average was about $3.14. Since then, data from the federal government and the American Automobile Association have shown no significant shift.
Gasbuddy.com April 23 data showed that of about 150,000 national gasoline, no gas stations sold gasoline for $1.98 per gallon.
With one exception, the White House’s auto-related announcement is the reallocation of investments for existing facilities, rather than building factories. It may take years to build a factory or add production to existing factories, and plans may be modified or completely gone.
Experts say companies may publicly announce plans to support Trump in some cases, even if they intend to make those investments all the time.
Automakers such as Hyundai, Honda and Stratlandis may be preparing to accelerate the decision to roll out to fit the political reality, said Greig Mordue, a professor of manufacturing policy at McMaster University. "These launches can be positioned as 'victory'," Modi said.
The federal government has cut costs under Trump, but he has not proven that he has cut billions of dollars in fraud.
The Doge said it saved $160 billion, a small portion of the billionaire businessman Elon Musk, who once promised to cut it.
A nonprofit organization's public service partnership is a task to improve the federal government, he said Doge has cost the federal government about $13.5 billion. The organization based on $27 billion in annual labor compensation, then estimates layoffs, acquisitions, hiring freezes and other changes to reduce productivity by 50%. These figures do not include the cost of defending the lawsuit.
Trump and Musk have repeatedly said they have found “fraud” but largely pointed to projects they disagree with ideologically, such as efforts on diversity, equity and inclusion or climate change.
"If Democrats are competent for this bill, you will get a 58% tax." If Trump's 2017 tax law reduces taxes expire, taxes will increase - but Democrats are not opposed to continuing Trump's tax relief volumes below $400,000, while household incomes on incomes exceed.
Trump is right, and taxpayers will be hit hard if Congress fails to pass the extension. We gave a correct comment on a statement from New York Representative Mike Lawler, “If we don’t pass the tax bill before the end of the year, we will raise the most tax revenue in U.S. history.”
According to some estimates, allowing tax cuts to expire will result in the largest tax increase in history, with an estimated $40 trillion in revenue increasing from fiscal 2025 to fiscal 2034.
Data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that about two-thirds of domestic workers in the United States are white, with a median age of 43.5 years.
Women account for 52.3% of those working from home and 47.7% of men. The New York Times reported that mothers of young children were more likely to work remotely than women without children or with children.
Trump said early in his speech: "This country is going crazy. Today they do it again. A man I've never heard of, John James. Is he a member of Congress? This guy? He said, ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to start the impeachment of Donald Trump."
Michigan lawmakers proposed impeachment of Trump this week, but that was not Republican representative John James. This is Shri Thanedar, the representative of democracy.
James is running for Michigan governor, hoping to inherit Democrat Gretchen Whitmer.
Trump supporter Brian Pannebecker asked the president to speak to the crowd, and he correctly determined that Thanedar proposed impeachment for lawmakers.
Trump later correctly identified James in his speech, saying: "Luckily, now we have good people in Congress, such as Congressman John James."
"Just yesterday, I brought back Columbus Day in the United States," Trump said.
His truth social post on April 28 said, "He hereby restored Columbus Day, under the same rules, dates and locations as many decades before!"
Trump appears to be referring to the 2021 manifesto, where Biden acknowledged “the great sacrifices made by the Native people to this country and recognizes their many ongoing contributions to our country.”
But while some states recognize Indigenous Peoples Day on the same day in October, rather than Columbus Day, the federal holiday under Biden has not changed. It's still a federal holiday. Biden issued the Columbus Day declaration in 2024.
We fact checked Trump’s similar statement about Biden’s use of automatic start to sign a pardon.
The Constitution does not require pardons to be signed directly by the President; it is not prohibited to use mechanical devices for signatures.
Biden is not the first president in the United States to use automatic opening. Presidents Barack Obama, John F Kennedy and Thomas Jefferson used automatic or mechanized signature devices.
When we asked the White House in March if it was using automatic opening, the spokesperson pointed out Trump's comments when he said, "I never use it. I mean, I might use this as an example and send a letter to some young people because it's good.