President Donald Trump delivers a speech to US Navy personnel on board the USS George Washington aircraft carrier in Yokosuka, Japan, on Tuesday. Philip Fong/AFP/Getty Images
President Donald Trump made numerous false claims in his Tuesday speech to US service members on an aircraft carrier stationed in Japan.
Trump repeated his regular lie that he won the 2020 election (he lost to Joe Biden). He also deployed some of his favorite recent false claims about grocery prices (they’re up, not “way down”); inflation in general (it’s rising, not “defeated”); presidents and wars (he hasn’t ended eight wars, and it’s not true that no other president ever ended a single one); investment in the US this term (it’s nowhere near “$17 trillion”); the deadliness of the alleged drug boats he has had

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