Does China operate the Panama Canal? Trump's inauguration speech fact-checked

Donald Trump made several false and misleading claims in his first address after being sworn in for a second term as president, some of which go as far back as his first time in office.

They included claims about immigration, the economy, electric vehicles and the Panama Canal, and were followed by yet more dubious statements as he delivered remarks at the US Capitol's Emancipation Hall, such as misleading allegations about the pardons made by President Joe Biden as he left office.

Here's a summary of some of the most egregious claims.

In his Emancipation Hall speech, Trump said that Biden pardoned "33 murderers, absolute murderers, the worst murderers" who were on death row.

This isn't true; the outgoing president said on 23 December that he would commute the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on the US's federal death row, converting their punishments to life imprisonment.

Commuting a sentence is not the same as a pardon — the individual is still convicted, but they receive a lesser sentence.

"These commutations are consistent with the moratorium my Administration has imposed on federal executions, in cases other than terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder," Biden said at the time.

The move spared the lives of people convicted in killings, including the slayings of police and military officers, people on federal land and those involved in deadly bank robberies or drug deals, as well as the killings of guards or prisoners in federal facilities.

The three federal inmates that now face execution are Dylann Roof, who carried out the 2015 racist slayings of nine Black members of Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina; 2013 Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev; and Robert Bowers, who fatally shot 11 congregants