January 20, 2025

Politifact Fact-Checked Trump’s Inaugural Address Live

January 20, 2025 Pensito Editors

Politifact live fact-checked the newly minted 47th president’s inaugural address. Trump started lying as soon as he was sworn in (without placing his hand on the Bible) about everything from the number of Americans who died building the Panama Canal to the price of apples. Read the facts here.

Pope Francis: Trump’s Deportation Plans a ‘Disgrace’

January 20, 2025 Buck Banks

“If it is true, it will be a disgrace, because it makes the poor wretches who have nothing to pay the unpaid bill. It won’t do. This is not the way to solve things.”

— Pope Francis criticized President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to deport immigrants as a “disgrace,” CNN reports.

Oxfam: Billionaire Wealth Surges to ‘Unimaginable’ Levels

January 20, 2025 Buck Banks

$15 trillion

“Billionaire wealth surged in 2024, as the world’s richest people increasingly benefited from inheritance and powerful connections, Oxfam said Monday in its annual inequality report,” NBC News reports. “The combined wealth of the world’s most wealthy rose from $13 trillion to $15 trillion in just 12 months, the global charity said Sunday. It marks the second-largest annual increase in billionaire wealth since Oxfam records started.”

Biden Welcomes Trump ‘Home’ to White House

January 20, 2025 Buck Banks

“Welcome home.”

— President Biden, quoted by ABC News, greeting President-elect Donald Trump at the White House.

Biden Pardons Mark Milley

January 20, 2025 Buck Banks

“After forty-three years of faithful service in uniform to our Nation, protecting and defending the Constitution, I do not wish to spend whatever remaining time the Lord grants me fighting those who unjustly might seek retribution for perceived slights.”

— Retired Army Gen. Mark Milley said he was “deeply grateful” to receive a preemptive pardon from outgoing President Joe Biden Monday, USA Today reports.

This Chill Bodes Ill

January 20, 2025 Buck Banks

A polar vortex has gripped the nation,
With snow and ice and deep refrigeration.
Liberal pundits did foretell
It would be a cold day in hell
On Donald J. Trump’s second inauguration.

Day: January 20, 2025

Politifact Fact-Checked Trump’s Inaugural Address Live

Pope Francis: Trump’s Deportation Plans a ‘Disgrace’

“If it is true, it will be a disgrace, because it makes the poor wretches who have nothing to pay the unpaid bill. It won’t do. This is not the way to solve things.”

— Pope Francis criticized President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to deport immigrants as a “disgrace,” CNN reports.

Oxfam: Billionaire Wealth Surges to ‘Unimaginable’ Levels

$15 trillion

Biden Welcomes Trump ‘Home’ to White House

“Welcome home.”

— President Biden, quoted by ABC News, greeting President-elect Donald Trump at the White House.

Biden Pardons Mark Milley

“After forty-three years of faithful service in uniform to our Nation, protecting and defending the Constitution, I do not wish to spend whatever remaining time the Lord grants me fighting those who unjustly might seek retribution for perceived slights.”

— Retired Army Gen. Mark Milley said he was “deeply grateful” to receive a preemptive pardon from outgoing President Joe Biden Monday, USA Today reports.

This Chill Bodes Ill

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

— Don Moynihan

“Musk’s behavior is emblematic of tech’s most heinous figures, who now feel emboldened to enter the analog world with the same lack of care and arrogance with which they built their sloppy platforms.”

— Kara Swisher

“If they want to try to annihilate Ontario, I will do everything — including cut off their energy with a smile on my face. …They rely on our energy, they need to feel the pain. They want to come at us hard, we’re going to come back twice as hard.”

— “Speaking Monday at a mining convention in downtown Toronto, Ontario Premier Doug Ford doubled down on threats to cut electricity exports to U.S. border states if the tariffs go through,” the Toronto Sun reports.

“The White House has become an arm of the Kremlin. Every single day you hear from the National Security Advisor, from the President of the United States, from his entire national security team, Kremlin talking points.”

— Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), on CNN.

“America’s abrupt turn from moral beacon and defender of the free world is unsurprising, given the fundamental immorality of the Trump administration. If you have the morality of a gangster, you will behave like a gangster.”

— Noah Smith

Numerati

31

+$1 trillion

“The U.S. debt and deficit problem worsened during President Donald Trump’s first month in office, as the budget shortfall for February passed the $1 trillion mark even though the fiscal year is not yet at the halfway point,” CNBC reports.

172,000

240,000

-2.8%