Was Trump factual in his news conference?

President Donald Trump, facing reporters in a sprawling news conference Thursday, made this declaration about media coverage of the first few weeks of his presidency: “It’s all fake news.”

Well, PolitiFact’s here to tell you what’s real and what’s not.

The appearance was originally billed as the announcement of Trump’s new Labor Department secretary nominee Alexander Acosta. But focus quickly turned to the recent outpouring of leaks to the news media — from his phone calls with foreign leaders to federal investigations into whether his campaign coordinated with Russian operatives.

“I turn on the TV, open the newspapers and I see stories of chaos. Chaos,” Trump said from the East Room of the White House. “Yet it is the exact opposite. This administration is running like a fine-tuned machine, despite the fact that I can’t get my Cabinet approved.”

Trump insisted he has nothing to do with Russia, calling it a “ruse” and that “nobody I know of talked to Russia during the campaign.”

Trump returned to a number of themes from his campaign and repeated a slew of new and old falsehoods. He also touted progress on campaign promises, from a hiring freeze on federal workers to cutting regulations to ethics requirements of former White House staffers.

Here’s the rundown of the roughly hour-and-a-half event.

Electoral College victory not biggest since Reagan

Trump opened his remarks talking about his accomplishments, starting with the election itself.

“We got 306 because people came out and voted like they’ve never seen before so that’s the way it goes,” Trump said. “I guess it was the biggest electoral college win since Ronald Reagan.”

This is incorrect. Trump received a smaller share of the Electoral College votes (56.88 percent) than former presidents George H. W. Bush (79.18 percent), Bill Clinton (68.77 percent in 1992, and 70.45 percent in 1996) and Barack Obama (67.84 percent in 2008 and 61.71 percent in 2012).

So that’s five elections since Reagan and in which the winner got a larger percentage of the Electoral College votes than Trump.

Overall, Trump ranks in the bottom third in terms of the size of his Electoral College win.

We rated his repeated claim that he won in a “massive landslide” False.

Media has “a lower approval rate than Congress”

Assailing media coverage of his administration, Trump told the assembled reporters, “You have a lower approval rate than Congress, I think that’s right, I don’t know.”

Congress actually ranks below the news media, according to surveys from three different research groups spanning several years. In two polls, mistrust in the media broke 40 percent, which is hardly

anything to brag about. But in those studies, mistrust in Congress was over 50 percent.

Trump had a point that the media has a trust issue, but he was incorrect to rank them lower than Congress. This claim is Mostly False.

Trump says stock market record high shows optimism

Trump, saying he will create jobs as president, cited the stock market highs as a sign of a promising business environment.

“The stock market has hit record numbers, as you know. And there has been a tremendous surge of optimism in the business world,” he said.

The three major stock indexes, Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq, all closed at record highs for five consecutive days. While investors are optimistic about Trump’s plans to cut taxes and eliminate regulations, experts said factors other than Trump’s presidency play influential roles in the stock market.

This claim is Mostly True.

Trump’s flip-flop on leaks

During the presidential campaign, Trump couldn’t get enough of the private emails of senior Democrats released by WikiLeaks. But now Trump is assailing leaks from the intelligence community to the media about his campaign advisers’ contacts with Russian officials. “The press should be ashamed of themselves” for running stories based on leaks, he said at the press conference.

So Trump praised the release of private information during the campaign but criticized it after he became president. On our Flip-O-Meter, we rated Trump’s change in position about leaks a Full Flop.

Russia didn’t hack the Republicans

Trump touted the fact that while the Democratic National Committee was hacked during the election, “they tried to hack us and they failed.”

The gist of Trump’s claim is correct.

While Russians were able to get into the email accounts of some Republican individuals and state-level Republican organizations, they did not break into the Republican National Committee’s current system. Any information the hackers accessed was outdated and wasn’t released. It’s not completely clear why hackers did not break into the current RNC. We don’t know whether they tried and failed or didn’t try at all.

We rated a similar claim Mostly True.

On his relationship with Putin

Trump tried to distance himself personally from the Russian government.

“I have nothing to do with Russia,” he said. “Haven’t made a phone call to Russia in years. Don’t speak to people from Russia. Not that I wouldn’t. I just have nobody to speak to. I spoke to Putin twice. He called me on the election. I told you this. And he called me on the inauguration, a few days ago.”

Just a couple years ago, Trump touted his close relationship with Putin. “I do have a relationship (with him), and I can tell you that he’s very interested in what we’re doing here today,” he said in a 2013 MSNBC interview, for example. We rated this reversal a Full Flop.

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