‘A Reversal of Reality’: CNN’s Daniel Dale Calls Out Barrage of False Claims from Trump’s Marathon UN Speech
CNN’s Daniel Dale on Tuesday fact-checked a litany of false claims made by President Donald Trump during his marathon UN speech.
Moments earlier, the president had just wrapped up his hour-long speech to the UN General Assembly. Throughout the speech, Trump repeatedly antagonized the member countries and told them their countries were “going to hell” as a result of a number of issues — namely immigration.
Trump also included many of his go-to claims, including the insistence that crime in Washington, D.C. has been completely eradicated and that the U.S. has become the “hottest” country in the world under his leadership.
Once Trump’s speech finally concluded, Dale was brought on to take on some of those claims. In response to the president saying he’s ended seven wars across the globe, Dale said:
There are a lot of issues there. So, first of all, some of the conflicts he’s counting as wars he resolved were not actually wars at all. For example, Egypt and Ethiopia have argued over an Ethiopian dam project on the Blue Nile, but they were not in a raging war in which thousands of people were being killed.
Similarly, Trump has claimed that he prevented conflict between Serbia and Kosovo from resuming, but they were not in a raging war either. In addition, The conflict involving the Democratic Republic of Congo and neighboring Rwanda has not actually been resolved. We have good reporting from just a day ago, talking about how hostilities have continued despite the peace deal that was signed under President Trump.
And then, in addition to that, India denies that President Trump was responsible for mediating its ceasefire, its truce, with neighboring Pakistan. So, a whole lot of issues with just that one claim.
Dale went on to say that there were countless other false claims that didn’t have time to get into. Another one that he took issue with dealt with inflation:
President Trump said that grocery prices are down during this presidency. They’re up and the pace of the increases is accelerating as the tariffs take effect. He has claimed that inflation has been defeated in general, though inflation is also accelerating. It was 2.9% last month — up from 2.7%. He said that European electricity bills are high, which is true, but that ours are coming way down. No, in the U.S. they are increasing sharply — up 6.2% in August compared to a year prior. And there were a whole bunch of other topics.
He also called out the president over false claims about China’s energy usage:
He claimed that China builds a lot of wind turbines and manufactures them for others, but refuses to use it itself, barely uses wind power. In fact, China is the world leader in the use of wind power. It is building additional wind power in China far faster than the pace at which the U.S. is building in the United States itself. So the idea that China is just, you know, foisting this terrible source of energy on other countries while refusing to use it is a reversal of reality.
Watch above via CNN
