President Donald Trump made numerous false claims in his Tuesday speech to US service members on an aircraft carrier stationed in Japan.

Trump repeated his regular lie that he won the 2020 election (he lost to Joe Biden). He also deployed some of his favorite recent false claims about grocery prices (they’re up, not “way down”); inflation in general (it’s rising, not “defeated”); presidents and wars (he hasn’t ended eight wars, and it’s not true that no other president ever ended a single one); investment in the US this term (it’s nowhere near “$17 trillion”); the deadliness of the alleged drug boats he has had the military attack (there’s no basis for his claim each boat kills “25,000 people”); and a smattering of other subjects.

Here is a fact check of 11 of Trump’s inaccurate assertions. This is not a comprehensive list of the falsehoods in the speech.

The 2020 election

Trump repeated his usual lie about the 2020 election, saying, “You know, we won the second election by a lot, so we had to just prove it by winning the third — by too big to rig, I called it. It was too big to rig.” Trump legitimately lost the 2020 election fair and square to Biden.

Grocery prices

Trump repeated his false claim that “grocery prices are way down.” Grocery prices are actually up. Consumer Price Index figures for September showed average grocery prices had increased since August (about 0.3%), since September 2024