Trump made 56 suspect statements at campaign rallies Biden held only one campaign rally - on his 100th day - where he made one suspect claim.

He gave only seven interviews, compared to 22 for Trump, and held only two news conferences, compared to nine for Trump.Īlmost 100 of Trump’s claims came from tweets only one of Biden’s tweets was deemed false or misleading. His press secretary, Jen Psaki, holds lengthy daily briefings with the media, and Cabinet secretaries also speak on Biden’s behalf.Īll told, through April 29, according to a count by, Biden spoke about 30 percent fewer words than Trump and tweeted 65 percent fewer times. He devotes little time to social media, in contrast to his Twitter-obsessed predecessor, and rarely faces reporters or speaks off the cuff. Any claim that was repeated was also included, though unlike Trump, Biden generally does not repeat his false claims if they have been fact-checked as false.īiden’s relatively limited number of falsehoods is a function, at least in part, of the fact that his public appearances consist mostly of prepared texts vetted by his staff. Any statement that would merit at least Two Pinocchios - essentially “half true” - was included. In compiling the database of Biden’s claims in his first 100 days, The Fact Checker used the same methodology as the Trump database that counted more than 30,000 claims over the course of Trump’s presidency. That compares to 511 such statements in Trump’s first 100 days. Through April 29, his 100th day, Biden has made 78 false or misleading statements, according to a Washington Post Fact Checker analysis of every speech, interview, tweet or public statement made by the president. He asserted that as vice president he helped craft an $800 billion strategy to help Central America it was $750 million. He spun that if Congress passed his infrastructure plan, “the economy” would create 19 million additional jobs only 2.7 million of those jobs could be attributed to the proposal itself. More typical for Biden, when he uttered a false statement, was some subtle truth-stretching. The claim was one of two uttered by Biden to earn the Fact Checker’s “Four Pinocchio” rating, reserved for whoppers - the other being his wildly off-base statement, borrowed from the campaign, that federal contracts “awarded directly to foreign companies” rose by 30 percent under President Donald Trump. After four years of a presidency that swamped Americans with a gusher of false and misleading claims, the Joe Biden era has offered a return to a more typical pattern when it comes to a commander in chief and his relationship with the facts - one that features frequent spin and obfuscation or exaggeration, with the occasional canard.Īmong the most notable falsehoods of President Biden’s first 100 days in office was his claim - which he made three times - that Georgia’s controversial Republican-backed election law had shortened voting hours.

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