President Donald Trump transmits a simple message to voters: he will save them from democratic policies that have jeopardized their portfolios, security and their freedom.
Here is what he omits: sometimes he promoted these same policies.
Here are Trump and his spokesperson six times called the Democrats to politicians that Trump himself supported during his first presidency.
Promote hiring of diversity at the Federal Aviation Administration
A few hours after an American army helicopter and an American Airlines passenger plane collided January 29 Above the Potomac river, killing 67 people, Trump blamed the hiring policies for the diversity of his predecessors, including the hiring of disabled people. But during Trump’s first term, the same program existed to hire disabled people.
What Trump said: “I changed Obama’s policy (on the hiring of air controllers) … Then Biden entered and he changed it.” (We evaluated this false.)
What Obama and Biden did: An executive decree of the Obama era issued in 2010 ordered federal agencies to hire more people with disabilities. The FAA has incorporated policy into its hiring program.
In 2014, the Obama administration began a hiring assessment for air traffic controllers that weighed biographical information such as work and education experience, but not the race. In 2018, Trump abandoned the use of biographical evaluation; Biden did not restore it.
What Trump did: The FAA in 2019 announced a program to hire 20 disabled people, in particular from the same targeted disability list, Trump recently sparked air controllers. In a press release of April 11, 2019, the agency said that a key objective was to “identify specific opportunities for people with targeted disabilities, empower them and facilitate their entry into a workforce more diverse and more inclusive ”.
The agency continually highlighted its initiatives to hire diversity, including its objectives to hire people with disabilities, from 2013 to Trump who took over the office in 2025, in particular Throughout Trump’s first mandate.
On January 21, Trump signed a executive decree This eliminated diversity, equity and inclusion, or the hiring and the realization of the Secretary of Transport and the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to “return to non -discriminatory hiring and based on the deserved”.
Prohibit Tiktok
Trump criticized the position of Biden, who called for the prohibition of Tiktok in 2024. But Trump had sought to ban popular video application during his mandate. (We have said that Trump’s change of position encountered our definition of a complete flop.)
What Trump said: “We love Tiktok. I’m going to save Tiktok. Biden wants to get rid of Tiktok. »»
What Biden did: Biden signed the bipartisan legislation In April, it would end up banning Tiktok unless it was sold to an American company.
What Trump did: On August 6, 2020, Trump signed the executive decree 13942, which sought to ban Tiktok, writing that “the United States must take aggressive measures against the owners of Tiktok to protect our national security”. On January 20, 2024, Trump published an executive decree to suspend the ban on Tiktok for 75 days.
Kill chickens
The press secretary of the White House Karoline Leavitt blamed biden for high egg prices that she said from the mass murder of her chicken administration.
What Leavitt said: The Biden Administration and the Department of American Agriculture “led the mass murder of more than 100 million chickens, which led to a lack of chicken supply in this country, therefore a lack of supply in Eggs, which leads to the shortage ”. (We evaluated this real half.)
What Biden did: The chickens are slaughtered to stop the spread of the bird flu and protect neighboring farms, the poultry industry and public health. A federal law of 2002, the law on the protection of animal health, gives the power of USDA to depopulate herds and influx to stop the spread of the disease.
USDA data shows that 108 million laying chickens have died since 2022, including 13 million in 2025. It is not known how much virus have been euthanized or dead.
What Trump did: A response plan to the USDA birds, updated in May 2017, incorporated political directives based on the lessons of avian flu epidemics during the Obama administration. He said that “rapid depopulation of infected poultry is essential to stop the transmission of the virus and must be hierarchical”. During a bird flu epidemic in March 2017, a USDA report said: “Nearly 253,000 birds were depopulated”.
Take money from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for Migrants
While questioning the damage caused by Hurricane in Georgia in October 2024, Trump said that Biden-Harris administration had diverted FEMA money for immigration, leaving the catastrophe agency.
What Trump said: “$ 1 billion was stolen from FEMA to use it for illegal migrants. … And the FEMA is now broken. They have no money. (We evaluated this false.)
What Biden did: The Congress granted money to Fema for the Shelter and Services programwho gave money Temporary shelter, food and transport. However, this is distinct from the rescue fund in the event of a FEMA disaster, which is used after hurricanes.
What Trump did: In 2019, the Ministry of Internal Security said He would “reprogram” certain funds that the congress had put aside. The ministry said that it would transfer $ 155 million from the rescue fund in the event of FEMA disaster to immigration efforts.
Prison office providing transgender care
Trump attacked the former vice-president and Democratic candidate for the presidential election Kamala Harris for his statements on transgender care for people in prison. In 2019, Harris said that she had supported the authorization of an operation affirmed by the sexes for people in federal prisons, and in 2024, said that it “would respect the law”. But a similar policy existed during Trump’s first term, in accordance with federal law.
What Trump said: Harris “supports the sexual changes funded by taxpayers for prisoners and illegal foreigners”. (We have evaluated this especially true.)
What Biden and Harris have done: The Policy of the Bureau of Prisons during the Biden administration allowed people in prison to request surgery affirmed by the sexes. We found that in September 2024, only two people in federal prisons had successfully completed these procedures.
What Trump did: Trump’s first administration also recognized federal legal obligations to provide sexual care for prisoners. The New York Times highlighted a budgetary service note from the 2018 Ministry of Justice which noted the “statutory mandate to provide basic medical and mental health care” to prison and noted that “transgender offenders may need … surgery “in the context of medical treatment. The Bureau of Prisons during Trump’s first term published a manual of transgender offenders who referred to “hormone or other medical treatment” but did not specifically mention surgery.
Temporary FEMA accommodation for the victims of Hurricane of North Carolina
Trump accused Biden of having expelled the survivors of the Hurricane Hurriction Hoteline. But FEMA had similar eligibility conditions that affected temporary housing during Trump’s first administration.
What Trump said: “The Biden Administration launched 2,000 Carolinians from the North moved from their temporary accommodation in the freezing of 20 degrees”, in January. (We evaluated this especially false.)
What Biden did: The FEMA under Biden provided hotel or motel rooms to Northern Carolinians who needed temporary accommodation after Hurricane Helene. The FEMA reviews the eligibility for participants every two weeks. Households are no longer eligible if they lack inspections, whether their houses are habitable or discover hotels. On the weekend of January 18, 740 families were informed that they had to leave the rooms because they were no longer eligible. They were given three weeks notice to find shelter.
What Trump did: Trump’s first administration also had eligibility criteria to stay in temporary housing. A press release of February 16, 2018 on the victims of the Hurricane of Texas said that “examination of the criteria” would determine which was no longer qualified.
“Any accommodation option is, by design, a temporary short-term solution, designed to be a bridge towards medium and longer term solutions,” said Brock Long, the administrator of the then-Fema, During a March 2018, House Homeland Security Committee Audience.
The writers of the personnel of Politifact Grace Aouls, Jeff Cerone, Caleb McCullough and Maria Ramirez Uibe and Paul Specht of Caroline du Nord contributed to this article.
