Trump's 73-false-claim week last week was the 7th-most-dishonest of his presidency. Here's the updated chart. pic.twitter.com/4ghQ5s7x2M
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 27, 2018
Here's the top 10 list of Trump's most dishonest weeks in office. Eight of the 10 have come in the last three months. pic.twitter.com/iBDPYLeDlQ
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 27, 2018
‘Give it to me’: Trump lets loose with 81 minutes of bluster, falsehoods and insults, by @AshleyRParker https://t.co/4ledJBtPxZ
— Dan Eggen (@DanEggenWPost) September 27, 2018
"Steel is like the hottest industry there is." — Donald Trumphttps://t.co/UUh3c6rhXq
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) September 27, 2018
Even for Trump today's press conference was a disaster. Here are the funniest tweets about today's incoherent #TrumpPressConference. https://t.co/bsF2XV8WSv pic.twitter.com/4KzaTlJ2f7
— Paste Magazine (@PasteMagazine) September 27, 2018
great thread:
Trump says the potential 2020 Democratic candidates are "total lightweights."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 26, 2018
The new KORUS is just the old KORUS with minor tweaks: https://t.co/B80TDELgoO https://t.co/OmoKVYB8rD
— Simon Lester (@snlester) September 24, 2018
More lies and other nonsense
"I'm not thrilled, but after the election, they're all telling me were getting our wall the way we want it, so let's see what happens. Let's see what happens. Let's see if they produce." — Trumphttps://t.co/JJonJ6h6vP
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) September 21, 2018
Trump says he is going to "drain the swamp." There is a "drain the swamp" chant. He says "Wacky Jacky" again.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump throws a hat. People scream. I Want It That Way plays. "The president has a weird thing for Backstreet Boys or something," the host of the Right Side Broadcasting web stream says.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump says America is "being respected again," and the economy is the best ever, and if Hillary Clinton had won it would have been a "sad, sad period of time."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
"Except for a lot of the fake news that you see from these people back here" – BOOOO – "this is an incredible time for our country," Trump begins.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
"Poverty is plummeting," Trump boasts. Government report last week showed that the poverty rate dropped from 12.7% in 2016 to 12.3% in 2017.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump: "Remember the tears from the fake news media when it was obvious we were going to win. And you know what: they're still crying. Look at 'em, they're still crying. They're still crying. And let 'em cry. They don't know what the hell happened."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
For at least the 12th time, Trump falsely claims that presidents had failed to pass the Veterans Choice program for decades before him. (This time he says it took "46 years.") The Choice program was created in 2014 under Obama. Trump's law modified the program.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
This is the part of the rally where Trump, on-script, attacks the local Democratic candidate, providing material for the local Republicans' ads. It is usually followed by him no longer being on script any more.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump says the Democrats' new platform is "radical socialism," vowing, "I won't allow the United States of America to become the next Venezuela." There is a…"build that wall" chant.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
"We started the wall a year ago," Trump lies for the 35th time of the wall he has not started. "We've done a lot."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump lies that Democrats voted for a wall in 2006. They voted for fencing. The law was called the Secure Fence Act.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump mentions Hillary Clinton. There is a very loud "LOCK HER UP" chant, the loudest chant of the night.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump: "A lot of people think that I'm always angry at Congress. I'm angry at Democrats."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump slams the media at length, then lies, for the 6th time, that the red lights of their cameras are "starting to go off" because they don't like the criticism. No station has ever turned off its camera during his media criticism.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump says that without the "fake news," Democrats would not even get 5% of the vote. "I'll tell you. It's true," he concludes.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
For the 12th time, Trump lies that the New York Times apologized to its subscribers after the election. It made a sales pitch, not an apology.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump lies again that his election hurt the sales of the New York Times: "When we won, they suffered." The Times added 276,000 digital subscribers in the three months after the election.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump says that Americans voted to reject corrupt globalism: "Hey, I'm the president of the United States! I'm not. The president. Of the glooobe."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
This is Trump's most concerted rally pitch for his supporters to vote in the midterms, which he often makes only passingly. This time, he frames it as his own election: "I want to give a victory speech. I want to give a victory speech on the evening of Election Day."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
"We've created more than 400,000 manufacturing jobs," Trump says of the 348,000 manufacturing jobs created during his presidency.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
"Remember when President Obama said you can't have manufacturing jobs anymore," Trump falsely says of Obama's 2016 comments on PBS. Obama said some particular manufacturing jobs were gone, but boasted of how many he'd brought back and how many America still has.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump is boasting of how he told African-American voters, "WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO LOSE? WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO LOSE? REMEMBER?" He says he did it because African-Americans have "the worst education, the worst home ownership" and such.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
For the 26th time, Trump falsely says Asian unemployment is at a record low. (It was in May, but jumped back up to a higher level than at the end of the Obama era.) For the 27th time, Trump falsely says women's unemployment is at a 65-year low. (Again, was in May but jumped.)
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Donald Trump: "I'm an environmentalist."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump keeps recounting his 2016 election victory, twice speaking in the voice of a newscaster announcing that Donald Trump is the next president of the United States.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
"Democrats want to give welfare and free health care to illegal aliens," Trump says to boos, adding of Gavin Newsom, "How about this clown in California who's running for governor?"
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
"We have the cleanest air now in the world," Trump says of air the Environmental Performance Index ranks as the 10th-best in the world. "We have the cleanest water," Trump says of the U.S.'s 29th-ranked water.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump is again mounting an extended attack on Democrats' "Medicare for all" proposals, saying that would be an all-time disaster. We'll likely hear a lot of this for the next two years.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump is trying something new recently: arguing that "Democrats would bankrupt the safety net" with left-wing proposals and with proposals to pay for benefits for immigrants. After all he's proposed, he's positioning himself as the saviour of essential benefit programs.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump has concluded. He was stunningly dishonest by the standard of any other politician but on quite good behaviour for himself, and especially on-message in pleading for midterm turnout.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
The amount of cash that's flowed back to the U.S. after Trump's massive tax law overhaul is just 3.5% of what he predicted https://t.co/PjE8ay3kPE
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) September 17, 2018
As long as the US tax rate is higher than the tax rate in foreign jurisdictions where multinationals hold their un-repatriated profits, there is still a tax advantage in delaying repatriation. Cf. https://t.co/ANIPhugYi4. TCJA didn’t change that fact https://t.co/JQig0BXx2x
— Daniel Hemel (@DanielJHemel) September 16, 2018
New HuffPost/YouGov poll: about a quarter of the public buys into Trump's conspiracy theory about hurricane deaths. Numbers remarkably consistent whether or not context (including his lack of basis for the claim) is provided. https://t.co/U9dRUA76pd pic.twitter.com/JAE6I0h1OE
— Ariel Edwards-Levy (@aedwardslevy) September 18, 2018
New: Trump made *115* false claims in the first week of September, second-most of any week of his presidency: https://t.co/Dzg0Aoe0Ju
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 17, 2018
Headlines like this, which amplify Trump claims made in transparent bad faith without informing readers that they are false based on the known facts, actively reward Trump's lying.
This is a huge, ongoing problem.
I have a chapter on this in my book: https://t.co/TehBe3RmWx https://t.co/ozavfueiIC
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) September 13, 2018
A running list of Trump’s conspiracy theories
President Trump claimed, without any evidence, that the estimated death toll in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria was being inflated by his political enemies. Here's a look at Trump's embrace of other conspiracy theories. pic.twitter.com/vFMcwVspnX
— Hardball (@hardball) September 13, 2018
Trump’s conspiracy theories disputing official government findings/records:
-Puerto Rico death toll isn’t 3,000
-Millions voted illegally, all for Hillary
-Russia maybe didn’t interfere
-Obama maybe not born here
-Connecting vaccines and autism
-Climate change is a hoax
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) September 13, 2018
Trump cited misinformation from Geraldo Rivera. Daniel Dale of the Toronto Star did a great job cutting through Trump’s crap.
The president is now citing Geraldo in support of his hurricane deatherism. There's no apparent basis for the claim that "70% of the power was out before the storm." pic.twitter.com/QyTvacqpHT
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 14, 2018
In summary: according to news reports a day prior to Maria hitting Puerto Rico, 4% of Puerto Rican customers (60,000 of 1,500,000) did not have power at the time — not the 70% the president is claiming to spread his ludicrous conspiracy theory. https://t.co/2h05oDqoat
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 14, 2018
One more point of fact: Trump is wrong to suggest there was nothing in between the "64 deaths" count and the "3,000 deaths" estimate. In August, Puerto Rico reported to Congress that there were 1,427 more deaths than normal over the 4 months post-Maria. https://t.co/xbn16KYM95
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 15, 2018
Here’s a column from someone who calculated the death toll:
Opinion: We calculated the deaths from Hurricane Maria. Politics played no role. https://t.co/8QsaRaJ3hR
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 15, 2018
Chuck Todd: “Do you believe any of these studies were done to make the president look bad?”
FEMA chief Brock Long: “I mean, there’s, there’s, uh, I don’t think the studies – I don’t know why the studies were done.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 16, 2018
Sad!