above One year anniversary At the start of his second term, US President Donald Trump He spent 104 minutes in the White House press room listing his accomplishments.
Trump began the briefing by showing a stack of photos of people arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis, the site of a large-scale raid and standoff as well as a deadly shooting. American citizen by an ICE agent.
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Addressing reporters, Trump highlighted the policies he has planned since taking office in January 2025. They sometimes stuck to the prepared text, but often digressed to related and unrelated points, occasionally repeating comments more than once.
Trump also took questions, many of which addressed foreign policy, including his acquisition efforts GreenlandIt was founded by A “Peace Circle” To oversee the reconstruction in Gaza, and then the government in Venezuela Abduction of the US of its then leader, Nicolas Maduro.
The press conference came a day before Trump’s scheduled departure to attend the World Economic Forum DavosSwitzerland.
economy
above economy“Everybody said, ‘Oh, tariffs will cause inflation,'” Trump said. We don’t have inflation. We have very little inflation.
On Trump’s one-year anniversary, we looked at a wide range of prices over the past year and found that overall prices are still rising, although certain items, such as eggs and gasoline, have seen price declines.
Immigration
on ImmigrationTrump said his administration is making deporting criminals a priority. “We have focused on murderers, drug dealers,” he said.
Trump in his first year refugees Somewhere between 300,000 and 600,000 people. The administration hasn’t published detailed data on deportations, so it’s unclear how many of those people had criminal histories.
But according to U.S. media reports, about 74 percent of the nearly 70,000 immigrants in immigration detention do not have criminal convictions.
investment
During the briefing, Trump repeated a few wrong he claims done in the past. He said the US had “secured a record-breaking commitment of $18 trillion in new investment”.
As of mid-November, the White House website put the figure at $9.6 trillion. Additionally, experts cautioned PolitiFact that some of the $9.6 trillion pledges may not be met and that others are unrealistically large compared to the gross domestic product of participating countries.
Gasoline prices
Trump also said Gasoline is “up to $1.99 in many states”. In the second week of January 2026, the national average price per gallon was $2.78, compared to $3.11 in January 2025.
No state has seen its average cost fall below $2. The lowest average price of any state in mid-January was $2.34 per gallon in Oklahoma.
Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas and Wyoming had at least seven stations selling gasoline for less than $2 on Jan. 20, according to the gas price app Gas Buddy, and some other states had between one and four stations selling gasoline for less than $2.
jobs
Trump said that under his predecessor, Joe Biden, “one in four jobs added was a government job.”
This is an exaggeration. Over 16 million were added to the economy in four years jobsAbout 1.8 million of those held federal, state, or local government positions; That’s 11 percent of the total.
During Biden’s final year in office, the economy added more than 2 million jobs Overall, that compares to 473,000 in 2025 under Trump.
Fentanyl overdose
Trump said 300,000 people died last year Fentanyl overdoses, but that’s well above the most recent federal data.
In the 12 months before August 2025, about 69,000 people in the U.S. died from overdoses of all types of drugs, not just fentanyl, according to a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
End of wars
Trump repeated it Assertion That he “ended eight endless wars in 10 months”, an exaggerated claim similar to the one we rated Mostly lies. He also said that “no president has probably ever resolved a war,” which we rated as false.