FACT FOCUS: Trump touts his accomplishments at 100 days but at times falls short on the facts

BY MELISSA GOLDIN Associated Press In a visit Tuesday to Warren Michigan President Donald Trump celebrated his first days back in office by touting his accomplishments while embellishing a few and misrepresenting others The speech of about minutes was reminiscent of a campaign rally and covered much of the same ground as he lobbed insults at the previous administration and detractors In highlighting his accomplishments he made a number of false and misleading statements on topics such as the state of the financial system and the price of eggs Here s a look at the facts Trump exaggerates drop in gas prices TRUMP Gasoline was almost not so long ago And now Mike we just hit in a lot of states Think of it THE FACTS As of Tuesday no state had an average gas price of Mississippi had the lowest price at per gallon of regular gas Trump previously made this claim about the level of gas prices on April but they had not fallen as low as that day either or any day in the last two weeks Mississippi and Tennessee were tied for the lowest average price on April at per gallon of regular gas National average prices rose under former President Joe Biden to a high of in June before falling to in December of that year Prices rose again to a high of in September but were down to in December They were at nationally as of Tuesday The last time prices surpassed was in August Related Articles Judge skeptical of Trump administration argument that federal courts can t review edge declaration Wisconsin high court suspends Milwaukee judge accused of helping man evade immigration leadership Trump administration tells Congress it plans to label Haitian gangs as foreign terror organizations Judge orders Trump administration to restore million for pro-democracy Radio Free Europe House GOP wants to pump billions into Trump s deportations and detentions as part of tax bill Cost of eggs not as low as Trump says TRUMP Since I took office the cost of eggs is down now THE FACTS The retail price of a dozen large eggs decreased in price to in September but has been on the rise since October As of March they were up to Wholesale egg prices on the other hand fell significantly in March but not by They were at a high of for a dozen large eggs on March and had dropped to by March a decrease of approximately University of Arkansas agricultural economist Jada Thompson stated the AP earlier this month that because the wholesale prices did not start dropping until mid-March there may not have been enough time for the average price for the month to decline And grocery stores may not have right now passed on the lower prices Inflation was already falling under Biden TRUMP We re ending the inflation nightmare The worst that we ve had perhaps in the history of our country THE FACTS Inflation started falling long before Trump started his second term Inflation peaked at in June after rising steadily in the first months of Biden s presidency from a low of in May during the COVID- pandemic As of December it had fallen to The the greater part fresh information shows that as of March it had fallen to Other historical periods have seen higher inflation such as a more than rate in according to the Federal Reserve Coal production is cleaner but it still creates emissions TRUMP We stopped their crusade on coal Did you see what I did the other day Clean beautiful coal THE FACTS The production of coal is cleaner now than it has been historically but that doesn t mean it s clean Planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions from the coal industry have decreased over the past years according to the U S Vigor Information Administration Strength lobbyist Scott Segal explained the AP earlier this month that the relative announcement that coal-fired electricity is cleaner than ever before is true particularly when emissions are measured per unit of electricity produced And yet coal production worldwide still demands to be reduced sharply to address situation change according to United Nations-backed research Along with carbon dioxide burning coal emits sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides that contribute to acid rain smog and respiratory illnesses according to the EIA Trump misleads on Biden-era electric bus mandate TRUMP I terminated Joe Biden s insane electric carriage mandate where you were mandated to buy an electric motorcycle You were mandated within just a minimal years to buy an electric bus THE FACTS It s misleading to claim that the Biden administration implemented such a mandate In April the Environmental Protection Agency revealed strict limits on greenhouse gas emissions from patron vehicles The agency declared these limits could be met if of new-vehicle sales are electric by And yet the new rule did not include a requirement for automakers to boost electric carriage sales directly It set emissions limits and allowed automakers to choose how to meet them EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin released on March that the agency would reconsider the rule but it has not yet been terminated In Kamala Harris co-sponsored a bill as a U S senator called the Zero-Emission Vehicles Act that would have required of new visitor vehicles sold to be zero-emission by The bill which stalled in committee did not ban ownership of vehicles that produce emissions