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FalsePresident Donald Trump’s “official schedule was suddenly suspended.”Said by X postsPolitiFactSep 2, 2025FalseThe U.S. Census included a citizenship question “for over 150 years” before the Obama administration.Said by James UthmeierPolitiFactSep 2, 2025MixedU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics statistics show, “We have 1.6 million illegal aliens that have gone home voluntarily.”Said by Kristi NoemPolitiFactSep 2, 2025FalseU.S. President Donald Trump scored 73 on an IQ test during his first year at New York Military Academy.SnopesSep 1, 2025MixedChemotherapy drugs to treat cancer were invented from mustard gas.SnopesSep 1, 2025Can’t tellLiz Cheney wrote a letter to the Democratic Party urging it to do more to fight the Trump administration’s “authoritarian machine.”SnopesSep 1, 2025TrueIn 2011, a North Carolina man robbed a bank for $1 so he could go to jail and receive the medical care he needed.SnopesSep 1, 2025TrueOn Aug. 25, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump's Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller called the Democratic Party a "domestic, extremist organization" on Fox News.SnopesAug 30, 2025MixedA July 2025 executive order from U.S. President Donald Trump aims to “institutionalize anyone disabled."SnopesAug 30, 2025Can’t tellA video authentically shows U.S. President Donald Trump saying "trans people don't exist."SnopesAug 30, 2025FalseA disproportionately high number of U.S. mass shooters are transgender as compared with transgender people’s representation in the country's population.SnopesAug 30, 2025FalseFormer NFL coach Joe Gibbs, who led the Washington Commanders, died in August 2025.SnopesAug 30, 2025TrueIn August 2025, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) immunization chief, Dr. Demetre C. Daskalakis, posted a resignation letter denouncing Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s leadership of HHS and the CDC.SnopesAug 30, 2025FalseA video authentically shows comedian Larry David on NBC's "Today" show reacting to the news of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's engagement in August 2025.SnopesAug 30, 2025FalseA group of 300 bikers shut down a Walmart store because an employee made an 89-year-old military veteran crawl on the floor to pick up his spilled change.SnopesAug 30, 2025FalseAs of August 2025, Florida had banned "The Diary of Anne Frank" in its schools.SnopesAug 29, 2025MixedA video posted to Will Smith's official social media accounts shows genuine shots of the entertainer singing during his 2025 concert tour, intercut with AI-generated crowd footage of people who do not exist.SnopesAug 29, 2025FalseU.S. Vice President JD Vance was accurate in saying that every major conflict in human history had ended with a negotiation.SnopesAug 29, 2025FalseA Vanity Fair cover featured first lady Melania Trump as “The American Queen.”Said by X postsPolitiFactAug 29, 2025FalseMinneapolis mass shooter Robin Westman was Jewish.SnopesAug 29, 2025TrueIn August 2025, federal immigration agents arrested two people fighting the Bear Gulch fire in Washington state.SnopesAug 29, 2025Can’t tellAn image authentically shows an antifa-vandalized banner of U.S. President Donald Trump on the Department of Labor's building in Washington, D.C., including the addition of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and the alteration of the words "American Workers First" to read "Pedophiles First."SnopesAug 29, 2025Can’t tellChief Justice of the United States John Roberts said, "I'm worried that President Trump is stretching the rubber band of democracy in ways it simply has never been stretched before."SnopesAug 29, 2025MixedFollowing the passage of a 2022 gun safety law, mass shootings “began to drop.”Said by Chris MurphyPolitiFactAug 28, 2025