100 days of Trump claims

Donald Trump earned 59 Four-Pinocchio ratings as a presidential candidate. Now that he’s president, he has continued his proclivity for making dubious, misleading or false statements. He also often repeats the same debunked claims even though they have been fact-checked. It’s hard to keep up with all of Trump’s rhetoric, so the Fact Checker is assembling in one place all of his suspect statements from his first 100 days as president. You can sort them by various categories and see how many times he has repeated the same false statement.

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In the 57 days Trump has been in office, we’ve counted 247 false or misleading claims.

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Out of the 56 days tracked through Mar. 16, there have been 2 days without any recorded false or misleading claims.

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RabidAlpaca said:

This is my #1 problem with Trump, he can not go 5 minutes without spouting an objective lie. I can get past ideological differences, I had no problem respecting Bush as a human being. Trump on the other hand does not have a single shred of integrity and does not even attempt to speak the truth. It blows my mind that evangelicals despise gays for even existing but can wholeheartedly support a compulsive liar, especially considering the bible spent a lot more time talking about the latter than the former.

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Cardinal said:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims/







Hillary Clinton (the Republicans' standard bearer for dishonesty) has by contrast made a total of 145 comments that are not entirely true if we add up her half-true, mostly false, false and "pants on fire" statements.

That means that in just fifty-seven days of office, Trump has made 102 more false or misleading statements than Hillary Clinton has in the entire course of her 35 year career. Further, his lies have worked to undermine our electoral system our intelligence community, have embarrassed the country and his party repeatedly, and have antagonized relations with one of our closest allies.

To put the sheer frequency of his lying in perspective, if Trump served in politics for as long as Hillary Clinton, by the end of his 35 year career he will have made a total of fifty-five thousand, three hundred and fifty eight false or misleading statements.

Hillary Clinton's file | PolitiFact

But hey, those emails, y'know?

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tres borrachos said:

Cue his supporters now.

"OBAMA!"
"Fake news!"
"Politifact is run by libruls!"
"I have a crush on Trump! He's so dreamy! He's gonna create me a job!"

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Cardinal said:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims/







Hillary Clinton (the Republicans' standard bearer for dishonesty) has by contrast made a total of 145 comments that are not entirely true if we add up her half-true, mostly false, false and "pants on fire" statements.

That means that in just fifty-seven days of office, Trump has made 102 more false or misleading statements than Hillary Clinton has in the entire course of her 35 year career. Further, his lies have worked to undermine our electoral system our intelligence community, have embarrassed the country and his party repeatedly, and have antagonized relations with one of our closest allies.

To put the sheer frequency of his lying in perspective, if Trump served in politics for as long as Hillary Clinton, by the end of his 35 year career he will have made a total of fifty-five thousand, three hundred and fifty eight false or misleading statements.

Hillary Clinton's file | PolitiFact

But hey, those emails, y'know?

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Trump said:

Well, first of all, I think we need somebody absolutely that we can trust, who is totally responsible; who really knows what he or she is doing. That is so powerful and so important. And one of the things that I’m frankly most proud of is that in 2003, 2004, I was totally against going into Iraq because you’re going to destabilize the Middle East. I called it. I called it very strongly. And it was very important.

But we have to be extremely vigilant and extremely careful when it comes to nuclear. Nuclear changes the whole ball game. Frankly, I would have said get out of Syria; get out – if we didn’t have the power of weaponry today. The power is so massive that we can’t just leave areas that 50 years ago or 75 years ago we wouldn’t care. It was hand-to-hand combat.

The biggest problem this world has today is not President Obama with global warming, which is inconceivable, this is what he’s saying. The biggest problem we have is nuclear – nuclear proliferation and having some maniac, having some madman go out and get a nuclear weapon. That’s in my opinion, that is the single biggest problem that our country faces right now. I think – I think, for me, nuclear is just the power, the devastation is very important to me.

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Winston said:

Donald Trump on our Nuclear Triad:



Not technically a lie but, a rambling incoherent response with inaccurate information betraying someone who has no idea wtf he's talking about.

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Cardinal said:

Thanks for that, nothing gets the creative juices flowing quite like the threat of nuclear war. Trump's British intelligence claim has just started a bona fide international crisis, and all because he got pissy that Sessions recused himself from investigations into connections with Russia. When a crisis finally happens in which American and allied lives are at stake, who doesn't think Trump is going to completely monkey-panic?

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Winston said:

Care to link me to British intelligence claims? Is it in reference to the dossier?

And here's what Trump will do when he faces a crisis: blame everyone around him and panic.

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Cardinal said:

I'm referring to the most recent ****-show in which the White House accused the GCHQ of working with Obama to illegally spy on Trump.

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