Trump Has Lied Over 12,000 Times

[Marilyn MonHoe 11,011]

President Trump’s proclivity for spouting exaggerated numbers, unwarranted boasts and outright falsehoods has continued at a remarkable pace. As of Aug. 5, his 928th day in office, he had made 12,019 false or misleading claims, according to the Fact Checker’s database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement the president has uttered.

Trump crossed the 10,000 mark on April 26, and he has been averaging about 20 fishy claims a day since then. From the start of his presidency, he has averaged about 13 such claims a day.

About one-fifth of these claims are about immigration, his signature issue — a percentage that has grown since the government shut down over funding for his promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. In fact, his most repeated claim — 190 times — is that his border wall is being built. Congress balked at funding the concrete barrier he envisioned, so he has tried to pitch bollard fencing and repairs of existing barriers as “a wall.”

False or misleading claims about trade, the economy and the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign each account for about 10 percent of the total. Claims on those subjects are also among his most repeated.

Trump has falsely claimed 186 times that the U.S. economy today is the best in history. He began making this claim in June 2018, and it quickly became one of his favorites. The president can certainly brag about the state of the economy, but he runs into trouble when he repeatedly makes a play for the history books. By just about any important measure, the economy today is not doing as well as it did under Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson or Bill Clinton — or Ulysses S. Grant. Moreover, the economy is beginning to hit the head winds caused by the president’s trade wars.

On 166 occasions, he has claimed the United States has “lost” money on trade deficits. This reflects a basic misunderstanding of economics. Countries do not “lose” money on trade deficits. A trade deficit simply means that people in one country are buying more goods from another country than people in the second country are buying from the first country. Trade deficits are also affected by macroeconomic factors, such as currencies, economic growth, and savings and investment rates.

Trump has falsely said 162 times that he passed the biggest tax cut in history. Even before his tax cut was crafted, he promised that it would be the biggest in U.S. history — bigger than Ronald Reagan’s in 1981. Reagan’s tax cut amounted to 2.9 percent of the gross domestic product, and none of the proposals under consideration came close to that level. Yet Trump persisted in this fiction even when the tax cut was eventually crafted to be the equivalent of 0.9 percent of GDP, making it the eighth-largest tax cut in 100 years. This continues to be an all-purpose applause line at the president’s rallies.

The president’s constant Twitter barragealso adds to his totals. More than 18 percent of the false and misleading statements stemmed from his itchy Twitter finger.

Trump’s penchant for repeating false claims is demonstrated by the fact that the Fact Checker database has recorded more than 300 instances in which he has repeated a variation of the same claim at least three times. He also now has earned 23 “Bottomless Pinocchios,” claims that have earned Three or Four Pinocchios and that have been repeated at least 20 times.

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/08/12/president-trump-has-made-false-or-misleading-claims-over-days/

[funkyhaus 7,697]

Nearly as many times as our Gagz 

[PinkJelly 1,819]

Why has America not got rid of this idiot yet? I know the U.K. now has Boris Johnson (who’s made a fair few false statements) but come on.

Too many politicians are allowed to make false/untrue claims and not account for the subsequent aftermath and it needs to change 

[DeleteMyAccount 11,881]

And what's most irritating about this is the fact that he's the one always going on rants about "fake news" and that the media is the enemy of the people crap.. Everyone lies, but he literally digs a hole for himself.. Like he wouldn't be as annoying if the rhetoric wasn't served on the side.

[androiduser 7,438]

1 minute ago, ZacharyMark said:

And what's most irritating about this is the fact that he's the one always going on rants about "fake news" and that the media is the enemy of the people crap.. Everyone lies, but he literally digs a hole for himself.. Like he wouldn't be as annoying if the rhetoric wasn't served on the side.

he uses the "fake news" excuse to discredit anyone who calls him out... whatever someone says, he has an answer to discredit their claims and satisfy his insane voters.

It's the equivalent of "they're jealous!" , "it's payola!" , "it was a buzz single!" etc in the diva stan world.

[Ariana Grindr 3,173]

Clown....a literal clown is the president of the United States of America 

[S0436 10,215]

Well I guess he is just confounding the stigma of politicians being liars.  You show me an honest politician and I think it will be the sign of the apocalypse. 

[tomsches 17,550]

He's the chosen one. Those aren't lies. They are prophecies that will be fulfilled in the future 

[Marilyn MonHoe 11,011]

1 minute ago, tomsches said:

He's the chosen one. Those aren't lies. They are prophecies that will be fulfilled in the future 

Would the king of Israel lie? 

[tomsches 17,550]

13 minutes ago, Marilyn MonHoe said:

Would the king of Israel lie? 

No. He was elected for our sins.