Jobs, gas prices and ending wars: factchecking Trump’s State of the Union claims

The president's lengthy speech to Congress contained myriad inflated, misleading or simply false claims

Donald Trump officially made the longest State of the Union address in history on Tuesday night, with broad claims about the successes achieved during the first year of his second term.

But the speech that stretched across more than an hour and 41 minutes was filled with strong statements, many of them inflated, misleading or simply untrue.