It’s not surprising that politics are rapidly consuming our everyday lives. Whether it’s in school, on social media, or the news, political messages about a variety of different topics are being spread. While there has been a great increase in the amount of information spread, there has also been an increase in the spread of misinformation.

Misinformation in political messages can be extremely harmful to society. Whether it’s medical advice, lies about climate change, or the ‘dangers’ certain people bring to the U.S., arguments made by leaders, especially President Donald J. Trump, are not always factually accurate. Many of America’s population blindly follow his choices without fact checking the information they are being told. This ignorance is extremely alarming.

Trump gave unsupported medical advice at a White House press briefing in September. During the briefing, NBC News stated that Trump “announced that the Food and Drug Administration was warning doctors not to prescribe acetaminophen.” Acetaminophen is the active ingredient in Tylenol, a medication that acts as a painkiller and reduces fever. Trump stated that consuming acetaminophen while pregnant can lead to autism in children. 

Shockingly enough, Trump has no scientific or medical background, and he couldn’t even pronounce the word ‘acetaminophen’, yet people are still listening to him. There is also no scientific proof of any sort of Tylenol being harmful to those pregnant or the child. Lying about the effects of Tylenol is extremely dangerous because Tylenol is one of the few medications you can take during pregnancy to help prevent pain and fevers. This is just one example of the danger of unchecked political messaging.

Trump continues to promote disinformation by stating the “dangers” that immigrants bring to countries. While presenting a speech to the United Nations he started by bashing Europe and saying that they are being “invaded by a force of illegal aliens like nobody’s ever seen before.” Trump’s narcissistic words calling immigrants “illegal aliens” is enough to make many people’s heads turn. 

He claims that “four months in a row, the number of illegal aliens admitted and entering our country has been zero,” which has been proven false by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (USCBP) reports that the number of border crossings has dropped significantly in the past months with around 8,200 crossings in July 2025. Though this is the lowest it has ever been, it is not zero as Trump said. 

He gloated that his inhumane immigration policies allowed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to arrest immigrants and anyone in their way, violating their natural rights. With these statements Trump continues to spread about the “threats” immigrants pose and the violation of hundreds of thousands of citizens rights, it’s important to recognize the misinformation in these messages. Through this misinformation Trump is tearing apart communities, ripping apart families, and creating distrust in a large portion of the American population. This causes division and tension throughout America, and is only furthered when people support his policies without looking into their actual impacts on American citizens.

In an article from The Guardian, Trump expressed that renewable energy projects and climate change is so called “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world,” and that “all of these predictions made by the United Nations and many others, often for bad reasons, were wrong.” 

Facts provided by The Guardian prove that Trump is wrong. Scientists prove that the earth has been heating up ever since the Industrial Revolution, which is when oil and production of fossil fuels began to ramp up. Along with that, research from a paper in 2021 by Research Gate suggested that around 90% of all scientists agreed that human activity was causing the climate crisis. 

Climate change is at an all time high, and if something isn’t done now, wildlife will continue dying, our air will continue to be polluted, and dangerous weather will happen more frequently. Trump’s continued misinformation used to dissuade support for climate issues only impedes climate activist efforts to create a clean and safe planet.

Although Trump has proven to lie on numerous occasions, many people argue that Trump kept his promise of funding the United States military. Even though he has held true on some promises, that does not change that he continues to go back on promises and lie to the American public. Just because someone like Trump is presented as a leader, doesn’t mean they don’t spread misinformation. For the safety of yourself, your peers, family, and the society, do your research. Check the facts. And above all else, stay safe.