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A Long Island crime address built around new FBI data.

Trump traveled to the Nassau County police academy in Garden City, New York, where he promoted preliminary 2025 FBI crime data, backed Republican candidates and repeated claims about immigration, bail and drug prices.

6documented points
7claims assessed
11source records
Scope

“Everything” means activity visible in official schedules, pool reports, public statements and reliable reporting. Closed or private conduct cannot be independently reconstructed. Times are Eastern.

The record

What happened on the 14th of August, 2026

President Donald Trump smiling in his 2017 official White House portrait
Official White House photo by Shealah Craighead · Public domain ↗

Documented events, with the limits of the available evidence left intact.

Closed White House work

The public schedule listed Executive Time, a policy meeting and Signing Time under closed press. The entries establish the schedule but disclose no subject or outcome.

Limited detail

Travel to Long Island

Trump left the White House, flew from Joint Base Andrews to John F. Kennedy International Airport and traveled by motorcade to Garden City.

Verified event

Joint Base Andrews press gaggle

Trump spoke briefly with reporters before boarding Air Force One, highlighting prescription-drug prices and border enforcement before taking questions about the USS Abraham Lincoln.

Verified event

Crime and public-safety address

At the David S. Mack Center for Training and Intelligence, Trump promoted new preliminary FBI crime statistics, praised Nassau County law enforcement and campaigned for Republican candidates.

Verified event

Travel to Bedminster

Trump left Garden City, flew from John F. Kennedy International Airport to Morristown, New Jersey, and continued to Trump National Golf Club Bedminster, where a full lid was called.

Verified event

Two full Trump-participation transcripts reviewed

Roll Call/Factba.se published full text for Trump's Joint Base Andrews gaggle and Garden City address. Both are indexed under the exact 2026-08-14 bucket. A separate Air Force One briefing by press secretary Karoline Leavitt is omitted because Trump did not participate.

Verified event

Fact-check desk

What the evidence supports

Supported

Nassau County had been rated the safest county in the United States.

U.S. News & World Report's 2024 Healthiest Communities analysis ranked Nassau County first for public safety with a score of 100. The measure combined crime, injury and public-safety-capacity indicators, so the verdict supports the historical ranking Trump cited, not a claim that Nassau necessarily had the lowest current crime rate on every measure.

Speaker
Donald J. Trump
Supported

Prescription-drug prices recorded their sharpest annual decline in more than 60 years.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that its prescription-drug index fell 3.1% in the year ending July 2026, the largest 12-month decline since a 3.2% fall in March 1963. The verdict covers the price-index claim Trump read from a headline, not his administration's sole responsibility for the change or his broader drug-price claims later in the speech.

Speaker
Donald J. Trump
Misleading

The United States achieved the single largest reduction in violent crime in American history in 2025.

The FBI's preliminary 2025 release estimated a 9.3% decline in violent crime and described it as the largest decrease since 1937. That is a historic fall across the agency's long comparable series, but it does not establish the broader all-of-American-history superlative, and the preliminary figures remain subject to revision.

Speaker
Donald J. Trump
Misleading

The 2025 murder rate was the lowest in 125 years.

Preliminary FBI figures support a large 2025 murder decline and indicate the rate was likely the lowest since 1960. But reliable national comparisons do not extend cleanly to 1900: coverage and definitions changed, and the FBI's consistent national series does not establish the full 125-year claim. The modern-era low is real; the asserted historical span is not demonstrated.

Speaker
Donald J. Trump
False

Biden allowed 11,888 convicted murderers into the United States, many of whom had killed more than one person.

The ICE non-detained docket cited for this allegation accumulated cases over decades and multiple administrations, included lawful permanent residents and visa holders, and included people serving prison sentences. It does not show that Biden admitted 11,888 convicted murderers. No reviewed government record substantiates Trump's added assertion that many had killed more than one person.

Speaker
Donald J. Trump
False

New York's no-cash-bail law sends someone accused of killing a person straight back onto the street.

New York law treats any crime alleged to have caused another person's death as a bail-qualifying offense. A judge may set monetary bail and, for a qualifying felony, order remand. Outcomes vary by case, but the law does not require the automatic same-day release Trump described for an accused killer.

Speaker
Donald J. Trump
False

For 15 straight months, zero people had crossed the border illegally.

The administration reported successive months with zero Border Patrol releases, not zero illegal crossings. DHS and CBP reported 9,848 Border Patrol apprehensions along the southwest border in June 2026 alone. Trump accurately read the zero-release headline immediately before changing it into a zero-crossings claim.

Speaker
Donald J. Trump

Transcript audit

2 transcripts located

These full-text records were checked for testable factual claims. A verdict appears above only when corroborating evidence supports one.

Bottom line

August 14 produced seven responsibly assessable Trump claims: two Supported, three False and two Misleading. Official data support the cited prescription-drug decline and Nassau County's historical public-safety ranking. The FBI also documents a major 2025 crime decline, but not Trump's broader all-history and 125-year formulations. Immigration-docket records, New York bail law and border apprehension data contradict three other core propositions. Two Trump-participation transcripts are available and indexed; the staff-only Air Force One briefing is excluded.

Sources & notes

Records reviewed

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President's Public ScheduleFactba.se / Roll Call - August 14, 2026

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Joint Base Andrews press gaggleRoll Call / Factba.se - August 14, 2026

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Garden City crime and public-safety addressRoll Call / Factba.se - August 14, 2026

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Garden City event reportingAssociated Press - August 14, 2026

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Preliminary 2025 national crime dataFederal Bureau of Investigation - May 13, 2026

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Historical limits of the 125-year murder claimPolitiFact - February 12, 2026

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July prescription-drug price indexU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics - August 12, 2026

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Nassau County public-safety rankingCBS New York - August 13, 2024

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ICE non-detained docket claim reviewFactCheck.org - September 30, 2024

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New York bail-qualifying offensesNew York State Unified Court System - People v. Keitt

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Southwest-border apprehensions and zero releasesDHS / CBP - July 16, 2026

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