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On the one-year anniversary of the start of his second term, US President Donald Trump spent 104 minutes in the White House press room listing his accomplishments.<\/p>\n
Trump started the briefing by showing a stack of photos of people who had been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis, the site of large-scale raids and counterprotests as well as the fatal shooting of an American citizen by an ICE agent.<\/p>\n list of 4 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n Addressing a roomful of reporters, Trump proceeded to highlight policies he has put in place since taking office in January 2025. He sometimes stuck to the prepared text, but often digressed into related and unrelated issues, occasionally repeating remarks more than once.<\/p>\n Trump also took questions, many of which addressed foreign policy, including his efforts to acquire Greenland, his establishment of a \u201cBoard of Peace\u201d to oversee reconstruction in Gaza, and the state of the government in Venezuela after the US abduction of its then-leader, Nicolas Maduro.<\/p>\n The press conference came a day before Trump\u2019s scheduled departure to attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.<\/p>\n On the economy, Trump said,\u00a0\u201cEveryone said, \u2018Oh tariffs will cause inflation.\u2019 We have no inflation. We have very little inflation.\u201d<\/p>\n For Trump\u2019s one-year anniversary, we looked at a\u00a0wide range of price data\u00a0for the past year and found that overall prices are still increasing, although some specific items, such as eggs and gasoline, have seen price declines.<\/p>\n On immigration, Trump said his administration was prioritising deporting criminals. \u201cWe\u2019re focused on the murderers, the drug dealers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n In his first year, Trump has deported\u00a0somewhere between 300,000 to 600,000 people. The administration hasn\u2019t published detailed deportation data so it\u2019s unclear how many of those people had a criminal history.<\/p>\n But about 74 percent of the nearly 70,000 immigrants in immigration detention have no criminal convictions, according to reports carried in the US media.<\/p>\n During the briefing, Trump repeated some inaccurate claims he\u2019s made in the past. He said the US has \u201csecured a record-breaking $18 trillion in commitments for new investments\u201d.<\/p>\n The White House website\u00a0since mid-November has shown a figure of $9.6 trillion. In addition, experts have\u00a0cautioned\u00a0PolitiFact that some of the $9.6 trillion in pledges may not come to fruition and others are unrealistically large compared to the gross domestic product of the countries involved.<\/p>\n Trump also said\u00a0gasoline is \u201cat $1.99 in many states\u201d. In the second week of January 2026, the average price per gallon nationally was $2.78, compared with $3.11 in January 2025.<\/p>\n No state has seen its\u00a0average price fall below $2. The lowest average price in any state in mid-January was $2.34 per gallon, in Oklahoma.<\/p>\n Four states \u2013 Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas and Wyoming \u2013 had at least seven stations selling gasoline for less than $2 on January 20, according to the gas price app Gas Buddy, and a handful of other states had between one and four stations selling gasoline for under $2.<\/p>\n Trump said that under his predecessor, Joe Biden,\u00a0\u201cone out of four jobs added was a government job.\u201d<\/p>\n This is exaggerated. Over four years, the economy added more than\u00a016 million\u00a0jobs, of which about 1.8 million were federal, state or local government positions; that\u2019s about 11 percent of the total.<\/p>\n During Biden\u2019s final year in office, the economy added more than 2 million jobs overall, compared with 473,000 in 2025 under Trump.<\/p>\n Trump said\u00a0300,000 people died last year because of fentanyl overdoses, but that\u2019s far above the most recent\u00a0federal data.<\/p>\n In the 12 months before August 2025, about 69,000 people in the US died from all types of drug overdoses, not just fentanyl, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.<\/p>\n Trump repeated his assertion that he\u2019d \u201cended eight unendable wars in 10 months\u201d, an exaggerated claim similar to one we rated Mostly False. He also said\u00a0\u201cno president\u2019s probably ever settled one war,\u201d\u00a0which we rated\u00a0False.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n On the one-year anniversary of the start of his second term, US President Donald Trump spent 104 minutes in the White House press room listing his accomplishments. Trump started the briefing by showing a stack of photos of people who had been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis, the site of large-scale […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-canada-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n
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