Donald Trump is once again facing backlash for making claims that simply don’t match reality, and this time, his own words are coming back to haunt him. For years, Trump has made statements that sound confident but fall apart when the facts are checked. Each time he does this, his team scrambles to explain what he “really meant,” hoping to fix the situation before it becomes a bigger problem. But the pattern keeps repeating: Trump makes a claim, his team tries to correct it, and then Trump says the exact same thing again, undoing all their efforts.
The latest issue began with Trump’s comments about grocery prices. He has been telling the public that food prices are dropping under his leadership and that Americans will see even lower prices during his second term. But the truth is the opposite. Grocery prices have actually gone up—1.4% since January and almost 3% since last September. Nothing in the data supports Trump’s claims.
Even so, his advisors tried to soften the damage. Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, acknowledged that grocery prices weren’t going down but tried to highlight that egg prices had dropped. He also claimed that inflation was lower now than during Biden’s time, suggesting that this is what Trump “meant.” The White House even put out a press release talking about small monthly drops in certain items, without mentioning the many foods that have become more expensive.
But the attempt didn’t work. Trump ignored all the corrections and repeated the same claim again, telling reporters that prices were “coming down very substantially” and already “much lower” than before. His team couldn’t defend him anymore without contradicting basic facts.
Another false claim causing trouble involves the FBI. Trump recently accused former FBI Director Christopher Wray of lying about FBI agents being deployed undercover during the January 6th riot. But CNN reviewed the information and found Trump’s statement to be false. The agents who were there were responding to the riot for crowd control—not secretly blending into protesters or acting undercover inside the Capitol.
Trump’s team previously tried clearing this up, explaining that the agents were sent after the riot was declared by local police. But Trump revived the false claim again months later, promoting the same conspiracy theory and undermining his own staff’s explanations. Even after people close to him shared the real details, Trump still repeated the incorrect version.
This ongoing pattern has created a major problem for his advisers. They often try to repair the fallout from his comments, only for him to restate the same idea and make the situation even worse. It leaves the public confused, his own team frustrated, and critics with even more evidence that Trump frequently says things that aren’t supported by facts.
Now, many are noticing that Trump’s false claims aren’t just disappearing into the noise like they once did. They are piling up, being repeated, fact-checked, and revisited—making it harder for his administration to distance itself from them. And every time Trump repeats a claim that has already been proven false, it becomes even harder for his team to defend him.
In the end, Trump’s own words continue to return to the spotlight, and this time, they’re causing damage that even his closest advisers can’t clean up.
