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Out-of-date polls to wrong aid amounts: factchecking Trump’s Congress address

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Donald Trump's marathon address to a joint session of Congress was littered with false claims.

The president repeated one of his new favorite lies: that the United States has given Ukraine $ 350bn since Russia ’s full-scale invasion in 2022 , and Europe has given just $ 100bn.

There is no evidence that any such scholarships were planned for Burma .

Trump cherry-picked an out-of-date poll to suggest that most Americans say the US is now going in the right direction.

However, that same polling firm’s most recent survey, this week , shows that 45% of Americans now say the country is on the right track.

Other polling firms, not associated with the Republican party , show that more Americans say they are on the wrong track now than right.

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