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TrueAn authentic photograph from the White House Easter event in April 2025 shows U.S. President Donald Trump displaying — to a group of children — a collectible card with a photograph of the assassination attempt targeting him in July 2024.SnopesMay 2, 2025FalseSeattle's marine cargo terminals were empty and international vessels had stopped calling into the port as of April 29, 2025, due to the U.S.'s newly imposed tariffs.SnopesMay 2, 2025FalseA video clip shows Michelle Obama describing herself as “a Black man.”Said by X postsPolitiFactMay 2, 2025TrueOn April 30, 2025, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said fentanyl seizures in the first 100 days of President Donald Trump's second term have "saved 258 million lives."SnopesMay 2, 2025FalseA video authentically shows former first lady Michelle Obama telling entertainer Marlon Wayans she is a Black man.SnopesMay 2, 2025FalseWhite House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt successfully sued television talk show "The View" for $800 million.SnopesMay 1, 2025FalseA photo authentically shows tech entrepreneur Elon Musk with a larger-than-normal chest and stomach.SnopesMay 1, 2025TrueA video authentically showed U.S. President Donald Trump announcing his plan for the American Academy, a free university funded by taxing, fining and suing large private universities.SnopesMay 1, 2025TrueU.S. Capitol police officers arrested the Rev. William Barber II and two others for praying inside the Capitol Rotunda in Washington on April 28, 2025.SnopesMay 1, 2025MixedA post from U.S. President Donald Trump showing Kilmar Abrego Garcia's hand tattoos was unedited and proves he was affiliated with the Salvadoran gang MS-13.SnopesMay 1, 2025FalseIn President Donald Trump’s first 100 days, fentanyl seizures saved “119 million” to “258 million” lives.Said by Pam BondiPolitiFactMay 1, 2025TrueU.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, said on X he was happy President Donald Trump was considering becoming pope.SnopesMay 1, 2025FalseWhite House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was kicked off "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" after a confrontation with the host.SnopesApr 30, 2025TrueA video showing moths camouflaged like the tips of twigs is authentic.SnopesApr 30, 2025MixedRobert A. Chesebrough, the inventor of Vaseline, ate a spoonful of petroleum jelly every day until he died at age 96, and once cured himself of pleurisy by having a nurse cover his body in Vaseline.SnopesApr 30, 2025TrueU.S. President Donald Trump signed a memorandum calling on the U.S. Justice Department to investigate Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue for unlawful “straw donors” and allowing foreign contributions in election campaigns.SnopesApr 30, 2025FalseKilmar Armando Abrego Garcia “had ‘MS-13’ on his knuckles tattooed. … He had ‘MS’ as clear as you can be. Not 'interpreted.’”Said by Donald TrumpPolitiFactApr 30, 2025FalsePhotos prove U.S. President Donald Trump fell asleep while attending Pope Francis' funeral service on April 26, 2025.SnopesApr 30, 2025FalseWhite House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Tex., "Go back to Africa."SnopesApr 30, 2025FalseFollowing concerns Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Department of Health and Human Services would defund the U.S. LGBTQ+ youth suicide prevention hotline, Canada added a toll-free number to their national suicide hotline for Americans to use free of charge.SnopesApr 30, 2025FalseGerman intelligence services arrested two alleged Russian spies who had U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's private number stored in their cellphones.SnopesApr 30, 2025Can’t tellAnheuser-Busch closed its iconic brewery in St. Louis, Missouri, in April 2025.SnopesApr 30, 2025TrueA photograph authentically shows the skull of a mammoth discovered in a Michigan farm field in 2015.SnopesApr 29, 2025TruePopular Mechanics magazine once featured an invention that claimed to allow drivers to control a car's braking system using only their eyebrows.SnopesApr 29, 2025