CNBC Anchor Fact Checks President Trump During Live Interview And The Result Is Hilarious

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While being interviewed by CNBC, President Trump stated he had the most votes in Texas’s history.

Trump’s remarks were immediately met with suspicion by CNBC’s Joe Kernen, who said he had to fact-check that.

After fact-checking, Kernen concluded Trump was right.

Fox News reported more on the comical moment:

President Donald Trump answered Tuesday whether he would try to campaign for the White House a fourth time around.

During a phone interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Trump was discussing Bureau of Labor Statistics job numbers that he argues were “rigged” during the 2024 presidential election to inflate former President Joe Biden’s economic performance. While discussing gerrymandering, Trump said he “got the highest vote in the history of Texas” – a claim CNBC anchorman Joe Kernen initially challenged but then admitted a network fact-check showed Trump did get the highest number of votes in Texas.

“I got the highest vote in the history of Texas, a record that they say won’t be beaten unless I run again,” Trump said.

Watch the moment it went down here:

🚨 LMAO! President Trump "claimed" he got the most amount of votes in Texas history…

…the CNBC host said "we need to fact check you on that."

Then he came back: "So, you DID get the highest number of votes in Texas. So, that's true. Moving on."

🤣pic.twitter.com/XmEt4tZJzb

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 5, 2025

Later in the interview, Trump was asked if he plans to run again.

Fox News reported on Trump’s answer:

CNBC anchorwoman Rebecca Quick interjected, “Are you going to run again? The Constitution…”

“No, probably not,” Trump responded. “Probably not.”

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“And you’re not going to, and you’re not going to fire Jay Powell,” Kernen added, referencing tensions between Trump and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.

Trump circled back to address Quick directly: “I’d like to run,” Trump told the anchorwoman. “I have the best poll numbers I’ve ever had. You know why. Because people love the tariffs, and they love the trade deals, and they love that countries – they love that foreign countries aren’t ripping us off. For years, they ripped us. A friend, and foe and a friend. And the friends were worse.”