— September 24, 2026

Fox's Sean Hannity scrolled through a list of so-called Trump "top accomplishments" during an interview with Sen. Tom Cotton, and it's a doozy. While Hannity and Cotton took turns trashing Democrats and Cotton's opponent for the Senate in Arkansas, Hallie Shoffner, here's what Hannity wants his audience to believe they should all be proud of.

Revoked "Endangerment Finding" (Killing regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act, and the repeal of vehicle emission standards.)

Signed "Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation" Executive Order (Requiring agencies to cut 10 regulations for each new one)

Created manufacturing boom through tariffs, tax cuts and deregulation (False. The U.S. lost about 89,000 manufacturing jobs between "Liberation Day" (April 2025) and February 2026, many directly due to tariffs.)

Established Trump Accounts

Companies committed to removing artificial dyes

No tax on tips, overtime and Social Security (These are capped income-tax deductions, not exemptions.)

Nearly 100,000 construction jobs added

31,000 manufacturing jobs in 2026

Ended war between Kosovo and Serbia (False. There was no war to end.)

Ended war between Cambodia and Thailand

Ended war between DRC and Rwanda (The Washington Accords were signed, but fighting with the M23 rebels continued.)

Ended war between Pakistan and India (India rejects this.)

Ended war between Egypt and Ethiopia (False. Their dispute over the Nile dam has never turned into military conflict, and Trump's mediation hasn't resolved it.)

Ended war between Armenia and Azerbaijan (The fighting had ended in 2023, and there was no active war when the deal was signed.)

Slashed federal workforce (Apparently making sure people starve and die from AIDS and slashing government to make sure it doesn't work any more is something to be proud of.)

Signed Working Families Tax Cuts (Rebranding of the One Big Beautifull turd of a bill that slashed Medicaid and SNAP and the ACA subsidies so rich people could get a tax cut.)

Best military recruitment in 15 years (We'll see how that goes the longer this war with Iran goes on.)

Banned federal funding, sponsorship or promotion of mutilation of minors (No one is "mutilating" minors.)

Removed DEI from government and private sector (There is no law banning DEI in the private sector.)

Record oil and gas production in 2025

Restored nine military bases to rightful names (So putting Confederate traitors' names back on military bases is something to be proud of.)

Released new dietary guidelines

Stopped more than 10,000 with narco-terrorism ties from entering US

Lowest murder rate in 125 years (Half true from PolitiFact)

Lowest annual drop in violent crime in US history

This is what Hannity thinks Republicans should be running on for the midterms. Good luck with that. He's got a long habit of doing this, one of them I wrote about back in 2018 when he was telling Congressional Republicans to follow Trump off of the cliff.

If nothing else Hannity seems determined to keep the fact-checkers employed with this nonsense. There's more that deserves to be debunked, but the Gish gallop from these liars is exhausting.

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