FACT FOCUS: False claims from Trump in address to the nation

President Donald Trump's address to the nation on the Iran war did not always hew to the facts. In his remarks Wednesday night, Trump declared that he inherited a “dead and crippled country” and delivered an economy with “no inflation.” But in 2024, the last year of Joe Biden's presidency, the economy grew faster than any wealthy country in the world except Spain. And inflation has not been eliminated. Trump also depicted Iran's current leaders as less radical than the ones killed in the war. But the new supreme leader is viewed as even more hard-line than the one before, and Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard has grown even more ascendant.