CNN Fact-Checker Torpedoes Bonkers Trump Attack From Falsehood-Riddled Oval Office Event — And 6 Other Doozies

Tommy ChristopherOct 17th, 2025, 5:18 pm
 

CNN senior reporter Daniel Dale torpedoed a bonkers claim from President Donald Trump about a bridge between Hawaii and the mainland and 6 other doozies from a falsehood-riddled Oval Office event.

The president welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to the White House Friday afternoon and spoke with reporters for about 40 minutes in the Oval Office.

Among the many false claims Trump peppered in with the other memorable moments was a riff about a Democratic senator and the aforementioned bridge:

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Came up yesterday, a tunnel from Russia to Alaska. That’s an interesting — what do you think of that, Mr. President? Do you have any ideas? How do you like that idea?

PRESIDENT VOLODOMYR ZELENSKY: I’m not happy with this. (LAUGHTER)

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I don’t think you’re gonna like it. I don’t think you like that.

REPORTER: Do you think that Vladimir Putin, do you think that Putin is serious, your gut instinct?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, we had a senator that wanted, remember, from Hawaii. She wanted a tunnel from the mainland to Hawaii. Then she said, well, we can’t do that, so we’re going to build a railroad to Hawaii, do you remember?

She’s a current sitting senator, a Democrat. She wants a railroad to go to Hawaii right? You know who that is, right? She’s another beauty.

As Dale explained later, the senator in question was Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) and the claim was completely made up based on a wisecrack Hirono made to a Fox News reporter.

Dale knocked down a total of seven false claims from Trump’s rants in his report, including:

  • No, Trump isn’t the only president ever to end a war.
  • No, Trump hasn’t ended eight wars.
  • No, the reason Russia failed to take Kyiv in 2022 wasn’t that a general decided to use mud routes instead of highways.
  • No, Obama didn’t merely give Ukraine bedsheets.
  • No, the 2020 election wasn’t rigged.
  • No, the US government revenue from tariffs on Chinese products isn’t paid by China.
  • No, Hawaii Sen. Mazie Hirono didn’t propose building a tunnel or railroad to Hawaii from the US mainland.

Watch above via CNN.

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