The Obama administration did transfer $1.7 billion — not $1.8 billion — to Iran in 2016. That money was delivered in cash, some of it on a plane. But it was a payment related to a decades-long dispute and was indirectly linked to the nuclear deal.

As The Times has previously reported:

Before the 1979 revolution, Iran’s shah had paid $400 million for American military goods but, after he was overthrown, they were never delivered. The clerics who seized control demanded the money back, but the United States refused. The additional $1.3 billion is interest accumulated over 35 years. An initial reimbursement was released after the Iran deal was implemented and to help secure the release of American hostages.

“We have accomplished more than any president in the first year by far, if you look at regulations, big tax cuts, Judge Gorsuch.”

This needs context.

Mr. Trump can claim deregulatory successes, but comparing regulatory activity between administrations is an imperfect exercise as laws evolve in a changing world. For context, The Times has previously reported:

Experts said that Mr. Trump’s efforts to cut through the bureaucracy fall far short of the structural changes made under Ronald Reagan, who abolished entire regulatory agencies and eliminated some economic regulations in the transportation, telecommunications and energy industries.

Mr. Trump’s tax cuts were indeed “big,” if not as large as he has claimed in the past. They were the eighth largest ever as a share of the economy, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

The naming of a Supreme Court justice — in Mr. Trump’s case, Neil M. Gorsuch — in the first year of a presidency is an opportunity afforded by the timeliness of a vacancy and was matched by Presidents Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan.