Fact check of Trump’s 100 days of speech

President Trump used a meeting in Michigan to mark what he claimed “had been the most successful first 100 days of every administration in the history of our country, according to many, many people”.

He emphasized his efforts to tackle illegal immigration, to bring jobs back to the US and to put an end to what he called “the inflation -nightmare”.

BBC Verify has investigated some of the most important claims of his speech.

Trump said, “The gasoline prices have fallen a lot” since he took office.

On April 29, the average price for a gallon of “regular” gas or gasoline – in the US was $ 3.16 (£ 2.36), according to Data from the American Automobile Association (AAA).

That is slightly higher than the $ 3.125 (£ 2.33) included by the AAA In the day Trump entered the White House.

In his speech, he added that the gas prices “had just hit $ 1.98 in many states”.

This is a claim that he has made several times, but we cannot find any evidence of the prices so low.

From April 29, no state had an average gas price lower than $ 2.67 (£ 1.99), according to the AAA.

The US president also spoke about the costs of eggs – a concern for many American consumers because of a continuous outbreak of Vogelgrie – and said, “Since I took office, the costs of eggs have fallen by 87%.”

This claim is incorrect.

The average national price for consumers of a dozen great class A eggs when Trump arrived in January was around $ 4.95 (£ 3.70).

This rose to a record high from round $ 6.23 (£ 4.65) per dozen in March – according to the latest available figures.

The White House has pointed to wholesale prices as proof of improvement.

Wholesale prices have fallen since Trump took on – but by around 52% – from $ 6.55 (£ 4.89) for a dozen large white eggs in January to $ 3.15 (£ 2.34) in the past week, According to the US Department of Agriculture.

Trump spoke extensively about his efforts to tackle illegal immigration – an important campaign issue in last year’s elections.

He said: “For two months in a row we have set records for the lowest number of illegal border crossings ever registered.”

This claim is supported by the last monthly figures about “Encounters” of illegal migrants who have been admitted by civil servants on the border between the US and Mexico.

In March there were 7,181 Migrants encounters There and in February there were 8,346.

These are the lowest figures, because these monthly records started in 2000.

For comparison: there were around 140,000 meetings on this border in each of those months last year under President Biden.

His term saw record numbers of border crossings that subsequently fell towards the end of his presidency.

The think tank of the Migration Policy Institute has studied monthly averages of annual figures before 2000 and says that this year’s illegal border crossings since the end of the 1960s are the lowest, rather than the lowest for “all time”.

President Trump praised Elon Musk’s work at the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) and said: “They have saved more than $ 150 billion on waste, fraud and abuse.”

Doge, an advisory authority, publishes an ongoing total of his estimated savings on its website – it was $ 160 billion the last time the site was updated on April 20.

However, less than 40% of this figure is split into individual savings – including the cancellation of government contracts, subsidies and lease contracts.

Analysis by BBC Verifieer Only about half of these specified savings had found a link to a document or another form of evidence.

Doge says it works to upload all coupons in a “digestible and transparent way”.

Federal contract experts with whom we spoke also praised questions about the largest claimed savings of Doge and said that some were exaggerated.

Trump said: “In three months we created 350,000 jobs.”

This claim is supported by official figures.

During Trump’s first two full months at the office until March (the latest available data), 345,000 jobs were added, According to the US Bureau or Labor Statistics.

In the same period last year, however, 468,000 jobs were added under President Biden.

Trump also said: “For the first time in recent memory, work profits for indigenous Americans now surpass work for foreign employees.”

It is true that during President Trump’s first two full months in office more jobs were created Indigenous employees than Foreign employees.

This also happened between February and April last year under President Biden.

Additional reporting by Gerry Georgieva and Tom Edgington