All these years later, and Daniel Dale is still fact checking Trump, who lies often enough to make fact-checking him a full time job.
> Fact check: Trump makes numerous false claims at Cabinet meeting
"Trump repeated his false claim that the European Union 'was formed in order to screw the United States'..
"'The President’s claims are preposterous,' said Desmond Dinan, a public policy professor at George Mason University who is an expert in the history of European integration... 'The European Communities (forerunner of the EU) were formed in the 1950s as part of a joint US-Western European plan to stabilize and secure Western Europe and promote prosperity, by means of trade liberalization and economic growth, throughout the shared transatlantic space.'"
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/26/politics/fact-check-trump-cabinet-meeting/index.html