BBC Verify: Trump's chat with Musk on X fact-checked

Source: BBC

Trump's chat with Musk on X fact-checked

13 August 2024

Jake Horton, Mark Poynting & Lucy Gilder
BBC Verify

In a two-hour discussion with Elon Musk, on the billionaire's platform X, Donald Trump made a number of questionable and false claims - which went largely unchallenged.

The Republican presidential candidate returned to some familiar campaign themes, such as illegal immigration and rising prices, but he also talked about climate change.

BBC Verify has been checking some of his claims.

How fast are sea levels set to rise?

CLAIM: “The biggest threat is not global warming, where the ocean is going to rise one eighth of an inch over the next 400 years.”

VERDICT: According to climate projections, Trump is vastly underestimating the rise in sea levels.

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