Trump's Lies: The 60 Minutes Edition

I'll identify the key false or misleading claims from this interview transcript:

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1. "We have almost none" of the chip market The U.S. actually dominates chip design (companies like Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, Nvidia) even if manufacturing has shifted abroad. This misrepresents U.S. position in semiconductors.

2. "$17 trillion being invested in the United States right now" This is a massively inflated, unverifiable figure. There's no economic data supporting $17 trillion in current investments.

3. "401(k)s are double what they were a year ago" Demonstrably false. 401(k) values have not doubled in any recent one-year period.

4. "Zero people coming into our country through our southern border" for five months Completely false. Border crossings never reached zero, even during periods of reduced migration.

5. Russia and China testing nuclear weapons Trump claims "Russia's testing nuclear weapons-- And China's testing 'em too." Neither country has conducted nuclear detonations recently. Russia tested delivery systems, not nuclear explosions. China's last nuclear test was 1996.

6. "I knocked out eight wars" / "I solved eight of 'em" The conflicts he lists (Cambodia-Thailand, Kosovo-Serbia, etc.) are either longstanding frozen conflicts or were not active "wars" that he resolved. This dramatically overstates his role.

7. "Inflation is at 2%. It's the perfect inflation" While claiming zero inflation elsewhere, this contradicts his other statements about prices still being problems.

8. Biden gave "exemptions on almost everything" for tariffs Biden actually maintained most Trump-era China tariffs, contrary to this claim.

9. "We lost 58% of the automobile manufacturing business" The U.S. auto industry has faced challenges but this specific percentage is unsupported and misleading.

10. Rare earth independence "within a year to a year and a half" Building rare earth processing capability takes many years and billions in investment—impossible in 12-18 months.

11. "60 Minutes was forced to pay me-- a lot of money" There's no public record of 60 Minutes paying Trump a settlement over the Kamala Harris interview editing controversy.

12. FBI raid with "78 or 98 FBI agents with arms" The actual number was significantly smaller, and Trump has varied this number in different tellings.

13. "11,888 murderers were let into our country" This distorts ICE data about non-detained immigrants with past criminal records, not people "let in" by Biden.

14. Claims about countries emptying prisons and mental institutions into the U.S. No evidence supports this systematic process he describes.

15. "25 million people were let into our country" This vastly overstates total border encounters during the Biden administration.

16. "The greatest nine months in the history of the presidency" Purely subjective and historically unsupportable.

17. Stock market hitting "all-time high 48 times during the course of my-- nine-month period" While markets may have hit records, the specific claim would need verification and context about normal market behavior.

The interview contains numerous other exaggerations, but these represent the most clearly verifiable falsehoods.