President Donald Trump made false claims about the war in Ukraine, US inflation, and the past fight against the ISIS terror group during his Wednesday news conference at the NATO summit in the Netherlands.
Trump also repeated his unproven assertion that the US’ weekend military strikes on Iranian nuclear sites had left them “obliterated.” As CNN reported Tuesday, an early US intelligence assessment found the core components of the program had not been completely destroyed and that the strikes had likely set back Iran’s nuclear program only by months. (The US continues to collect intelligence on the impact of the strikes and later assessments could come to different conclusions.)
Here is a fact check of some of Trump’s assertions on Wednesday.
When a reporter reminded Trump that he had previously promised to end Russia’s war on Ukraine in “24 hours” but had later said he had been speaking sarcastically, Trump said, “Of course it was sarcastic.”
It was not sarcastic.