Fact-checking Donald Trump’s interview with Elon Musk
Fact-checking Donald Trump’s interview with Elon MuskSource The Independent
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00:00Elon Musk sat down with presidential candidate Donald Trump for an honest interview.
00:04However, in usual Trump fashion, some of his off-handed statements' accuracy proved questionable.
00:09The biggest threat is not global warming, where the ocean's gonna rise one-fifth of an inch over the next 400 years.
00:15The big end, you'll have more oceanfront property, right?
00:18The biggest threat is not that.
00:19In this claim, Trump greatly underestimates the amount sea levels are expected to rise due to global warming.
00:25The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has estimated a range of 0.28 to 1.01 meter rise in global sea levels by 2100.
00:34The IPCC says a rise of one meter would put hundreds of millions of people at great risk, and that higher sea levels cannot be ruled out.
00:41You find a better way to...
00:42The only thing that's not obsolete is a wall and a wheel.
00:45And the wall...
00:46I built hundreds of miles of wall.
00:48The length of the border walls built during Trump's presidency depends heavily on what's being measured.
00:53If the number includes new sections, as well as repairing portions of the wall that were already in place, the total would be more than 450 miles.
01:01However, only 85 miles of entirely new sections of wall were built under Donald Trump's presidential term.
01:08We have... I think we have the worst inflation we've had in 100 years.
01:11They say it's 48 years. I don't believe it. I think we have the worst...
01:14They don't include a lot of the items that should be included.
01:17When I look at bacon costing five, four or five times more than it did a few years ago...
01:22Facts show this is false.
01:23Inflation peaked at 9.1% under the Biden administration, which would be the highest in 41 years, not 100.
01:30Inflation rose during 2021-2022 significantly as a result of COVID and the ongoing war in Ukraine.
01:37As far as bacon, prices have gone up 17% as opposed to four or five times.