President Donald Trump fired off a whopping 18 false claims during his new “60 Minutes” interview, according to a fact check.
The president told his favorite lie that the 2020 election was "stolen" from him and falsely declared that grocery prices “are down," even after CBS’ Norah O’Donnell corrected him. He insisted there was "no inflation" and tossed out a litany of bogus statistics, reported CNN's Daniel Dale.
"Grocery prices are up under Trump — and while there has been a particularly large increase in the price of beef, there have also been increases in the price of numerous other products," Dale wrote. "Consumer Price Index figures for September showed average grocery prices had increased since August (about 0.3 percent), since September 2024 (about 2.7 percent), and since January 2025 (about 1.4 percent), the month Trump returned to office. Prices in all six major grocery product categories tracked by the Consumer Price Index, such as 'fruits and vegetables' and 'cereals and bakery products,' are up over the past year."
Dale dispatched with Trump's false claim that "we don’t have any inflation," although he later conceded "we’re down to 2 percent, even less than 2 percent," which is also inaccurate.
"There is inflation; it has been worsening since May after hitting a four-year low in April; and it’s not 2 percent or less than 2 percent," Dale wrote. "The year-over-year rate was about 3 percent in September, up from about 2.9 percent in August; the September figure was nearly identical to the roughly 3 percent rate in January, the last partial month of the Biden administration and first partial month of the second Trump administration."
Trump boasted "more than $17 trillion was being invested in the U.S., which Dale said was an exaggeration of already fuzzy White House math.
"As of the time the '60 Minutes' interview aired on Sunday, the White House’s own website said the 'major investment announcements' this term totaled '$8.9 trillion' — and a detailed CNN review in October found the White House was counting trillions of dollars in vague investment pledges from foreign countries and companies, pledges that were about 'bilateral trade' or 'economic exchange' rather than investment in the US, or vague statements that didn’t even rise to the level of pledges," Dale said.
He then claimed that China and other foreign countries pay the tariffs he's imposed on their experts, but U.S. importers pay those costs and then pass some of those on to consumers, as study after study have shown.
"Trump made a variety of additional false claims on several subjects, including the government shutdown, the artificial intelligence boom, tariffs, his first impeachment and his former legal battle with '60 Minutes' itself," Dale wrote.
You can read the rest of his fact check here.
