He lied about this during the impeachment. The truth gets out eventually.
Category: Trump Lies
Trump lies during the State of the Union address
Here are fact checks and comments:
Fact Checks
— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 5, 2020
A team of our reporters who cover the economy, national security, health care and more will be fact-checking President Trump's claims during the State of the Union address. Follow along here. https://t.co/va51u3a81B
fact checking the SOTUhttps://t.co/FokwFdXwAY
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 5, 2020
31 false and misleading claims! –> Fact-checking President Trump’s 2020 State of the Union address https://t.co/vPUwZSyb6H
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) February 5, 2020
This conduct has been normalized which is tragic.
— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) February 5, 2020
Read this headline below again and consider that this is The President of the United States. https://t.co/bQqPqWtHIl
Last night @realDonaldTrump came before Congress and the American people and made up a series of lies. That was unbecoming, violated tradition & was offensive.
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) February 5, 2020
And right now the Administration is still suing to eliminate coverage for pre-existing conditions.#WednesdayWisdom https://t.co/nXE1sFk2bc
A pathological liar has a huge rhetorical advantage over rivals who are too timid to call lying by its rightful name
— Brent Staples (@BrentNYT) February 5, 2020
"How do you qualify something as a good speech if it's fed by lies?" —@JoeNBC pic.twitter.com/kSkxnkEHhe
— Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) February 5, 2020
Why are Trump's nonstop lies to Congress during his SOTU speech being treated as less of a breach of "decorum" than @SpeakerPelosi's ripping up of his speech is?https://t.co/3C4RscHgot
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) February 5, 2020
Perhaps the biggest lie President Trump told tonight was his claim he'll protect patients with pre-existing conditions.
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) February 5, 2020
His admin is in court trying to take those protections away.
The only way he can truly protect people with pre-existing conditions is to drop the lawsuit now.
"drew on falsehoods." They will bend over backwards to not call a lie a lie. This is just embarrassing levels of equivocation https://t.co/F0WDrWYQtu
— Daniel Gilmore (@gilmored85) February 5, 2020
Rick Santorum is saying on CNN right now that Trump isn't lying when he says he wants to protect pre-existing conditions. The other 6 panelists are shaking their heads, rolling their eyes & pushing back. The problem, though, is CNN inviting Santorum on to keep spewing lies on air
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) February 5, 2020
Trump lied less on the economy tonight than he has before. I counted single-digit lies. There were at least 22 in a speech on the economy he gave in November. @YahooFinance documented them: https://t.co/GGVlxkcWJm pic.twitter.com/wOAk8f8SZ7
— Rick Newman (@rickjnewman) February 5, 2020
WATCH: @SteveRattner fact checks Pres. Trump's #SOTU claims on the economy.
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) February 6, 2020
"Anyway you slice it – this is at best a continuation of the Obama recovery, and at worst, a slower version of the Obama recovery."https://t.co/IgFm0151VZ
Trump lies update 1/20/20
He lies more than ever.
Trump takes advantage of the fact that if the media keeps accusing him of lying, he and his supporters will say they’re biased. The media understates what a liar Trump is in order to appear balanced and fair. It took most of the media years to call him a liar. They used much wimpier terms instead of stating the truth. Nobody will confront Trump and call him a liar to his face. Trump wins on this one.
NEW –> President Trump made 16,241 false or misleading claims in his first three years https://t.co/p5HiSDpSzt
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) January 20, 2020
In mid-November, I published a list of 45 ways Trump had been dishonest about Ukraine and impeachment.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 20, 2020
It’s now 65 ways. Here’s the updated version, with quick fact checks of all 65: https://t.co/Hsxx7N6OBS
CNN's @ddale8 and @tarasubramaniam counted 81 false claims from Trump last week. "Trump is now up to 1,636 false claims since July 8, an average of about nine per day…" https://t.co/gJ9bkG1lKw
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 19, 2020
Honoring the LSU national championship football team, Trump falsely claims the USMCA and his preliminary China deal are the two biggest trade deals in history. Ignoring GATT/WTO rounds: the Trans-Pacific Partnership included all three USMCA countries and also nine others.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 17, 2020
"That’s one of the reasons why Trump kind of wants you to watch CNN instead of MSNBC," Lawrence O’Donnell said in a new interview https://t.co/Hc0AW96qVW
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) January 14, 2020
Fact-check: 5 times President Trump misquoted his allies and critics on impeachment https://t.co/jBtSB6lpOW pic.twitter.com/laZFjtnQSX
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) January 13, 2020
“If nothing the president says can be trusted, reporting what the president says becomes absurd. You can still do it, but it’s hard to respect what you are doing. If the president doesn’t know anything, the solemnity of the presidency becomes a joke. That’s painful.” https://t.co/bFBKTutCeU
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) January 12, 2020
Fact check: Trump made 15 false claims during a quiet week in Florida https://t.co/5AYBTVIrDr pic.twitter.com/6KvqCv2MAI
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) January 11, 2020
Trump is not at 53% approval in any recent poll I can see; he’s at 48% even in the latest Rasmussen daily tracker. (Please let me know if I’m missing a poll.) He’s also still not at 95% with Republicans. Also, 95% with Republicans wouldn’t be a record; GWBush hit 99% post-9/11. pic.twitter.com/vxLDdDMXZm
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 11, 2020
Preliminary report: Trump’s interview with Laura Ingraham last night was extremely dishonest. At least 15 false claims.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 11, 2020
Trump continues to claim that median family income has increased by $10,000 under him. What happened: he took a research firm's estimate of around a $5,000 pre-tax increase, which is much higher than the Census Bureau estimate, and added another $5,000 for nonsensical reasons.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 9, 2020
Stop putting liars on TV
Trump supporters have to lie in order to defend Trump’s lies. The media should not put liars on TV to spread garbage. I am all for a balanced approach as long as both sides tell the truth. Trump wins when the media reports his endless lies.
This was my message to the media going into 2020. Your responsibility is to the truth, not to "giving both sides" when one side is lies. And you cannot expose lies without spreading them. So repeat the facts. https://t.co/4EavbYO1AI
— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) December 26, 2019
If cable TV news got serious about patrolling the truth, it could screen guests and panelists. Did Russia interfere with the election? Did Ukraine? If the answers are not yes and no, respectively, the person is not put on the air. https://t.co/hG7RFekFAA
— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) December 31, 2019
Trump lies and lies and lies…
I assume what he says is a lie until I see proof that it’s true. He has no credibility and he has destroyed our country’s credibility. Sad!
Here are my picks for Donald Trump's top 12 lies of the year, one for every month.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) December 31, 2019
It was hard to choose. https://t.co/5qyZL1aEc8
Now he's just flatly lying about the Iran deal. Everything traces back to these original lies. We're in this situation because of them, and his incoherence flows directly from the demented, pathologically-motivated idiocy at their core. https://t.co/HLHiiYWgru
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) January 8, 2020
Here's our internal chart of Trump's false claims per day from July 8, when we started counting at CNN, through December 29. He averaged nine per day over that period.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 6, 2020
October, when he embarked on a Ukraine-related dishonesty blitz, was by far the worst month — 13 per day. pic.twitter.com/RTvS3xkBSK
this is an invented figure. https://t.co/kYwGjyNhOV https://t.co/vcufIliXRq
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) January 4, 2020
From dishwasher dishonesty to an imaginary war on Christmas: President Trump makes 90 false claims during the final two weeks of 2019 https://t.co/omGEEXz576 pic.twitter.com/HGki8iQKGc
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) January 4, 2020
Trump said last week that Michelle Obama was part of a last-minute campaign trip to Michigan in 2016. She was not.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) December 27, 2019
This is the second state Trump has falsely claimed Michelle Obama campaigned in. He also likes to say she went to Georgia, along with Oprah, for Stacey Abrams.
Went on with @JohnAvlon and Alisyn Camerota to run through some (some! a fraction!) of the worst and weirdest Trump lies of the year.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) December 27, 2019
What would you say were the worst and weirdest? Worst defined as some combo of most important, most damaging, most inflammatory. pic.twitter.com/WjC6icxLCP
Trump’s endless lies – update 9/18/19
There's no dishonesty off switch for Trump; he lies not only to average citizens but to audiences who know he's making most of this stuff up. He made 25 false claims at his NC rally last week — and, also, 22 in his speech to the House Republican Retreat. https://t.co/zuxdiLieBB
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 18, 2019
Trump made at least 26 false claims at his rally last night.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 17, 2019
That’s 26 I can immediately call false without doing additional research, because he’s said them before or because they’re so obvious. https://t.co/0LRrYRx2rX
Committee Republicans and Corey Lewandowski have both claimed that Trump was never notified that Russia was interfering with the 2016 election.
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) September 17, 2019
This is not true.
Trump received his first intelligence briefing on 17 Aug. 2016. The hacking and theft of Dem emails was covered.
Eric Trump’s Four-Pinocchio claim that the Obamacare website cost more than Trump’s border barrier https://t.co/PBYmcw2YJC
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) September 16, 2019
>> @ddale8's latest: "Trump criticizes the media for accurately reporting his comments on meeting with Iran"https://t.co/5ffgkiIISQ
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) September 16, 2019
Trump lies about Representative Omar
Disgusting and dangerous
Trump used his Twitter account to boost a baseless smear claiming that @IlhanMN partied on the anniversary of 9/11, a claim that’s based on footage of her dancing that wasn’t actually taken from that day https://t.co/7Y5oBKZnkL
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) September 18, 2019
A Twitter spokesperson tells @donie that Terrence K. Williams deleted the tweet that smeared Omar — Twitter did not remove it. (Trump's tweet promoting the now-deleted smear remains active.)
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 18, 2019
Rep. Ilhan Omar said Trump's retweet of a video falsely claiming she celebrated the anniversary of 9/11 "puts [her] life at risk."
— Axios (@axios) September 18, 2019
Twitter is currently looking into the matter.https://t.co/R7V0t7bGpv
Since July, I've written stories on Trump falsely accusing Omar of calling Jews evil, Trump falsely accusing Omar of saying Al Qaeda makes her proud, and Trump sharing a tweet falsely accusing Omar of dancing on the anniversary of 9/11.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 18, 2019
1/ Anatomy of a smear: progressive activist @AdamGreen posts on Sept 13, at a reception for the Congressional Black Caucus annual legislative conference, video of @IlhanMN dancing:https://t.co/sYFKN76rto
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) September 18, 2019
If anyone is still wondering, this is the event where Rep. Ilhan Omar was dancing, on September 13. The president, who has repeatedly smeared Omar, promoted a video claiming she was dancing on the September 11 anniversary. pic.twitter.com/G20rzLHV3F
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 18, 2019
On the retweet Trump did, which falsely claimed she was dancing around 9/11 – this appears to be yet another in a four year effort to validate his debunked claim of seeing “thousands” of cheering Muslims in NJ that day. https://t.co/HuSxExLPGt
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) September 18, 2019
Trump lies update – 9/4/19
I made a separate post about his lies about Hurricane Dorian.
Trump made 62 false claims last week. There were some weird ones. My breakdown and full list with @tarasubramaniam: https://t.co/mPe7Vsn4Uv
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 4, 2019
The #1 venue for Trump's false claims over the last six weeks: his exchanges with reporters, many of them in front of the Marine One helicopter.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 31, 2019
That's partly just because he's letting these "Chopper Talk" sessions run very long, but still notable. https://t.co/AUApkQ5r1q pic.twitter.com/vSo6DiOlc4
Six weeks, 328 false claims. Breaking down Trump's dishonesty | Analysis https://t.co/A6mhr5P2si pic.twitter.com/OFLoz5LkFK
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) September 2, 2019
President Donald Trump on the existence of Category 5 hurricanes, 2017-2019. pic.twitter.com/IRRny20hfp
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 1, 2019
Trump lies about Hurricane Dorian
Trump said it was going to affect Alabama – it isn’t.
Trump accuses the media of giving out a phony report when they give correct information.
Trump continues to lie about it – this is dangerous. People’s lives are affected by the hurricane. Sad!
A freaking Sharpie? https://t.co/rNVDUP96Lk
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) September 4, 2019
I wrote about the Trump Sharpie-hurricane map and, more broadly, how it reinforces Trump's refusal to concede to reality. https://t.co/YsTVhgKdiA
— Philip Bump (@pbump) September 4, 2019
A source familiar with the matter says DHS did not provide the altered map Trump showed in the Oval.
— Jeremy Diamond (@JDiamond1) September 4, 2019
“The map was not brought by DHS for this briefing,” the source said. https://t.co/oKeXF89A61
As a hurricane moves along the eastern United States and residents are told to heed all warnings from government officials, the President appears to have publicly displayed an altered map of the hurricane's trajectory with portions of Alabama circled with a Sharpie pic.twitter.com/0UJmJnDKYA
— Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) September 4, 2019
President Trump says he doesn’t know about the hurricane map being altered by a Sharpie. He also insisted there are “other, better maps” that show Alabama was in the area that could be affected by Hurricane Dorian, though the weather service said that’s not true.
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) September 4, 2019
Here's why the Alabama/Dorian story matters, especially with Trump showing off a distorted map today: The president spread false info during an emergency situation three times in one day. Then insisted he was right when he was corrected. https://t.co/1XOYGkMhMh
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) September 4, 2019
Reporter just asked Trump about the map: "It looked like someone took a Sharpie…."
— David Nakamura (@DavidNakamura) September 4, 2019
Trump: "I don't know. I don't know." (But Potus insists several times that Alabama was in the Dorian's path despite evidence to contrary.) https://t.co/2S92ndpnB1
The President held up a fake and doctored hurricane forecast map from the National Hurricane Center today to try and substantiate his claim that Hurricane Dorian would hit Alabama.
— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) September 4, 2019
That's the facts: https://t.co/icyHuq3TfX
As #Dorian approached, @realdonaldtrump spread misinformation about Alabama. Within minutes @NWSBirmingham corrected Trump without mentioning him by name. https://t.co/x0LjbdRmu3 pic.twitter.com/5YgFFdnq0c
— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) September 4, 2019
Perhaps not a great idea for the White House to be showing the country fake hurricane tracking maps while Dorian remains an active storm. https://t.co/TmCbJ8j4k4
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) September 4, 2019
Trump intended to tweet at Jonathan Karl, the chief White House correspondent for ABC News. He instead tagged Johnathan Carl, a Kentucky pastor and veteran. https://t.co/rfe02BI6gs
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) September 3, 2019
Trump lies update – 9/1/19
The most notable thing to me about Trump's dishonesty this summer: immigration, usually by far his #1 subject of false claims, has been only #5. #1 has been the economy — mostly trade-related claims. https://t.co/AUApkQ5r1q pic.twitter.com/rV8ZYl8ezZ
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 31, 2019
Trump has been saying since 2017 that he doesn’t know if he’s heard of a Category 5 hurricane, even as he’s heard of additional Category 5 hurricanes. https://t.co/4TEY2GDFU5
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 1, 2019
NEW: Trump misleads about NC Democratic candidate Dan McCready's immigration stances. https://t.co/LmvDsp2vuB
— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) August 31, 2019
But okay—how about when he claimed that he didn’t say “Tim Apple,” but actually said “Tim Cook Apple,” really fast, which, of course, he didn’t, and then when everyone laughed at him because it was on tape, he said he intentionally said “Tim Apple” to save time.
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) August 31, 2019
The dollar is not the strongest in history. There’s a measure, the broad, nominal trade-weighted index, where it’s around a high, but experts say it’s meaningless given how it’s affected by inflation in Venezuela etc. Other indices (https://t.co/jWVqssQSKK) nowhere near a high. pic.twitter.com/2HkY1sCHRU
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 30, 2019
President Trump's aides said he lied about calls from China in order to manipulate the markets, according to CNN. Wow. https://t.co/oYyxKVmmc2
— Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) August 30, 2019
There was the insane lie Trump told in front of the Pakistani PM that PM Modi of India had asked Trump to mediate Kashmir, which no Indian gov’t would ever do. India flipped out, basically calling Trump a liar. https://t.co/hkLCigD8rE
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) August 31, 2019
Sad! 