Fact-checking Trump’s 2025 inaugural address

President Trump began his second administration the same way he left his first, falsely questioning the outcome of the 2020 election and berating the criminal justice system in remarks throughout the day.

In his inaugural address, Mr. Trump delivered a more tempered version of the election arguments, including inaccurate assertions about the state of the economy, immigration, world affairs and federal and local investigations into his own conduct.

But later speaking to supporters in the Capitol rotunda, he repeated his grievances about the 2020 election, falsely accusing Nancy Pelosi of security lapses and falsely claiming the election was rigged.

This requires context. For months, Mr. Trump claimed that other countries like Venezuela had “dumped” millions of criminals into the United States through the southern border. He tempered the more imprecise “much” statement in his inauguration speech.

Immigration experts said they could not corroborate Mr Trump’s claims about “millions” of criminal migrants. There is also no evidence that other countries were emptying their prisons to send convicted criminals to the United States.