"That was a very long press conference that President Trump just held, one year into his second term in the White House. Almost two hours, I think it wasalmost two hours. And he kept coming back to the topic of immigration, but he was covering a lot of different things in his characteristic weave, although this was sort of a moment that I think stood out."
"No, it wasand we noticed it right awayit was very low energy in the beginning, sort of reading, sort of doing a weave, replied Hill, adding: But it almost seemed at some points he was going back to things that he had already addressed, reading them off of the booklet, the book that he brought out with him. Not clear if he didn't remember that he talked about them already or if he wanted to go back to them."
"There is also, over the last nearly two hours, as you point out, there's a lot that we need to fact-check here, because there was a lot of what the president said that was not true. Daniel Dale is joining us for some of that. You know, Daniel, as you've noted for us over the last couple of hours, some of these are things that we have heard from the president a number of times, certainly over the past year."
The president held a nearly two-hour press conference that began with complaints about media coverage of ICE and initial low energy. The president repeatedly returned to immigration topics, frequently reading from a booklet and sometimes revisiting points already addressed. The press conference covered many topics in a characteristic, digressive style and concluded on a more energetic note. Numerous statements during the event were factually incorrect or exaggerated. Examples flagged by fact-checkers included a fictional $18 trillion U.S. investment, a fabricated 600% reduction in prescription drug prices, and a false claim of having ended eight 'unendable' wars.
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