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Donald Trump

9 episodes · 21 quoted claims

Donald Trump said he took part in an X Spaces audio event with Elon Musk that drew audience numbers he said were unprecedented.

“I did spaces with Elon, and they got numbers like nobody's ever heard before.”

Lex Fridman Podcast · 0:13:06

Donald Trump said he received 63 million votes in his first presidential run and that he got millions more in his second.

“I was told if I got 63 million, which is what I got the first time, you, you, you would win, you can't not win.”

Lex Fridman Podcast · 0:18:49

Donald Trump said his first debate as a politician was the Republican primary debate in which Rosie O'Donnell was a topic.

“My first debate was the Uh Rosie O'Donnell debate, right?”

Lex Fridman Podcast · 0:18:49

Donald Trump said Japan is rearming because China is taking over certain islands.

“They're starting to rearm now, they're starting to rearm because China's getting, you know, taking over certain islands.”

Lex Fridman Podcast · 0:21:31

Donald Trump said 13 US soldiers died during the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan and that many more were badly wounded.

“We left thirteen dead soldiers. Think of it, thirteen dead soldiers, many soldiers horrifically hurt”

Lex Fridman Podcast · 0:28:21

Donald Trump said that after he spoke to the Taliban leader, no US troops were shot at or killed for eighteen months before the Kabul airport attack.

“We went eighteen months before this happened, this horrible day happened. We went eighteen months and nobody was shot at or killed.”

Lex Fridman Podcast · 0:29:29

Donald Trump cited President Dwight Eisenhower as a precedent for removing large numbers of people who entered the country illegally.

“Dwight Eisenhower was sort of a moderate president, moderate type person, but he hated when he saw people pouring into the country”

Lex Fridman Podcast · 0:31:14

Donald Trump said the US southern border situation in 2024 was twenty-five times worse than in 2016.

“Our border is twenty five times worse right now than it was in 2016.”

Lex Fridman Podcast · 0:31:14

Donald Trump said he deliberately did not read Project 2025 and said it had nothing to do with him.

“No, I purposely haven't read it, and I've heard about it.”

Lex Fridman Podcast · 0:32:20

Donald Trump said marijuana legalization should be tightly regulated and praised Florida's approach, which was headed to a state referendum.

“it's got to be done in a very concerted, lawful way, and the way they're doing it in Florida, I think, is gonna be actually good.”

Lex Fridman Podcast · 0:33:13

Donald Trump said he visited Arlington National Cemetery at the invitation of Gold Star families from the Afghanistan withdrawal.

“I went to Arlington at the request of people that lost their their children.”

Lex Fridman Podcast · 0:40:45

Donald Trump said Kamala Harris proposed price controls and claimed they have been tried 121 times and have never worked.

“she came out with price control. It's been tried like 121 different times at different places over the years, and it's never worked once.”

Lex Fridman Podcast · 0:46:49

Donald Trump said no new wars began during his presidency and that this had not happened in seventy-eight years.

“we had no wars when I was president. That's a big thing. Not since seventy eight years has that happened”

Lex Fridman Podcast · 0:48:24

Donald Trump said Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told him the world needs Trump back because leaders feared him.

“Victor Orban, the prime minister of Hungary, said the world has to have Trump back because everybody was afraid of Trump.”

Lex Fridman Podcast · 0:48:24

Donald Trump said he ended the Nord Stream 2 pipeline during his presidency and that Joe Biden later approved it.

“I mean, I ended the Nord Stream two pipeline, the Russian pipeline. Nobody else could have done that.”

Lex Fridman Podcast · 0:48:49

Donald Trump said he chose not to pursue prison for Hillary Clinton during his presidency because it would look bad.

“I thought it looked terrible to take the president's wife and put her in prison.”

Lex Fridman Podcast · 0:50:06

Donald Trump said he never visited Jeffrey Epstein's island and that many prominent people did.

“I never went to his island, um, fortunately, but a lot of people did.”

Lex Fridman Podcast · 0:52:33

At a rally Donald Trump made a remark about the appearance of rapper Nicki Minaj.

“I looked at one hell of a beautiful ass before Nicki Minaj.”

Pod Save America · 0:13:47

At a Michigan rally Donald Trump called Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed a jihadist Muslim Brotherhood member.

“I'm here to keep a jihadist Muslim Brotherhood member from becoming a United States senator.”

Pod Save America · 0:22:55

Donald Trump said at a Michigan rally that Abdul El-Sayed would have to go through a metal detector to enter the Senate.

“He would be the only senator that will have to go through a metal detector before he's allowed to go into the Senate.”

Pod Save America · 0:23:29

At a rally Donald Trump said tariffs do not cause inflation but cause wealth.

“Tariffs don't cause inflation, you know what they cause? Wealth.”

Pod Save America · 0:04:27