"Claim: "I bid to renovate the UN headquarters for $500 million (426 million). Instead, they spent $2 billion to $4 billion, with massive overruns." DW Fact check: Misleading. Trump has long claimed he could have renovated the UN headquarters at a fraction of the actual cost. In 2001, he floated a $500 million estimate to the press, and in 2005 he told Congress he could complete the job for up to $700 million."
"However, DW found no record in the UN Global Marketplace (UNGM) or official procurement archives showing that the Trump Organization ever submitted a formal bid for the project. Instead, the UN selected Skanska, a Swedish firm, as construction manager in 2007 to oversee multiple subcontracts. It's true that the Capital Master Plan — the project to renovate the UN New York Headquarters — faced delays and cost overruns, with final expenses exceeding $2 billion."
"But Trump's claim of "$2 billion to $4 billion" inflates the figure: Authoritative UN and US government figures place the final cost between $2.15 billion to $2.31 billion, not $4 billion. During his United Nations visit, Donald Trump criticized the UN, while also referencing the escalator and teleprompter malfunctions that occurred just before he spoke."
Multiple statements by President Trump at the UN contained inaccuracies and exaggerations across topics such as climate, renewable energy, immigration, and diplomatic achievements. A specific claim that he bid $500 million to renovate the UN headquarters lacks any record of a formal Trump Organization bid in UN procurement archives. The UN selected Skanska as construction manager and the Capital Master Plan experienced delays and overruns, with final costs placed between $2.15 billion and $2.31 billion. The claim that costs reached $4 billion is inflated. Other assertions, including claims about ending seven wars, are similarly contested or unsupported.
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