FACT FOCUS: Trump made multiple false and misleading claim in front of the UN General Assembly

President Donald Trump made numerous false and misleading claims during his speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday. These claims, which he has frequently repeated throughout his second term, covered various topics such as munitions supply, drug seizures, oil production, and the economy.

One claim was that the United States possesses "more munitions than we could ever possibly even think of using, and we’re building them at levels that we have never done before." However, published reports and experts contradict this assertion, stating that U.S. weapons stockpiles are diminishing. Defense experts note that replenishing Tomahawk cruise missiles and Patriot and THAAD missile interceptors will take years, with a "beyond critical" shortage of advanced missile interceptors in Europe already being experienced due to the war in Iran.

Another claim by Trump was that "when you add the United States and Venezuela together, we have more than 60% of the oil in the world." This assertion is factually incorrect. While it is true that the U.S. signed a joint venture with Venezuela, granting it 100-year rights to 17 oil fields with 65 billion barrels of proven reserves, this only increases U.S. proven oil reserves by 46 billion barrels.

Even if the highest numbers were used, the combined resources would only account for approximately 22% of the world's nearly 1.6 trillion barrels of oil reserves. In 2025, global oil production stood at just over 27 billion barrels of crude, with the U.S. producing 5 billion barrels and Venezuela producing 394 million barrels, representing nearly 19.6% of the world's crude oil production.

Trump also claimed that the U.S. has "carried out dozens of strikes on cartel drug boats, destroying 97% of the drugs coming into the ocean and sea." While the U.S. has indeed made significant drug seizures, the percentages Trump has provided vary, making it impossible to determine the exact number of drugs intercepted. Data from Customs and Border Protection shows that drug seizures in coastal and interior waters were 98.2% lower in November 2025 compared to July 2025, but this represents only a snapshot of two specific months and does not provide a definitive measure of overall trafficking trends.