Fact-Checking What Donald Trump Said in His Latest Interview With TIME

President Donald Trump photographed at the White House in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 28, 2026.President Donald Trump photographed at the White House in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 28, 2026.Dan Winters for TIMEOn Sept. 28, about five weeks before Election Day, President Donald Trump sat down for an interview with TIME in the White House.TIME has published the transcript of that conversation. Below is a review of some of Trump’s statements from the interview.What Trump Said: “I won all seven swing states. They said if you won three swing states, I won all seven. I won the counties. It's very important, 86% popular vote.”The Facts: Trump did win the popular vote in the 2024 presidential election, and he did win all seven swing states, but he’s conflating two figures. He won the popular vote by receiving 49.8% of the vote to Kamala Harris' 48.3%. He won the electoral college by 86 votes, 312 to Harris’s 226. He did not win all of the counties in the seven swing states, but he surprised many pundits by winning counties in the Detroit, Milwaukee and Philadelphia metro areas.What Trump Said: “Their economy is gone. Their inflation is at 300% or something like that.”The Facts: At the end of A...