Trump reaches a new milestone — surpassing the 5,000 mark for false or misleading claims as president, according to WaPo’s Fact Checker https://t.co/5xkBLuuXDS

— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) September 13, 2018

Anatomy of a Trump rally: 68 percent of claims are false, misleading or lacking evidence https://t.co/zYjZUHdcLS

— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 12, 2018

In his first 100 days, Donald Trump averaged 4 misleading or false claims.

Through 600 days, he's averaging more than 8.https://t.co/B33xold6UP

— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) September 13, 2018

Of all Trump‘s 4713 lies, this is perhaps the ugliest. The Talmud says that when you save a single life, it is like saving an entire world. Trump just erased 2982 worlds. https://t.co/PiJJZmHWA0

— Norm Eisen (@NormEisen) September 13, 2018

Paul Ryan is now using Trump's "it's an island!" defence: https://t.co/AaQPjHWL13

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 13, 2018

.@mattgertz has conclusively demonstrated that the answer to "why is the president tweeting about THAT this morning" is almost always "because he's responding to his television." https://t.co/tB0mTTy86d

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 13, 2018

Trump has been lying about Puerto Rico from the start to make himself look better. A recap of false things he has said:

1) "It actually touched down as a Category 5. People have never seen anything like that." (It touched down as a Category 4. People have seen Category 5s.)

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 13, 2018

Paul Ryan claims that the deaths in Puerto Rico were “no one’s fault.” But most of the deaths were due to the federal government’s failed response to the hurricane. That *is* Trump’s fault. https://t.co/ueu18jTKg7

— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) September 13, 2018

This is grossly misleading. The best estimate is that 3,000 died b/c of Maria. That many if not most of those deaths occurred well after the storm is an indictment of federal/local response. Thousands were without power FOR MONTHS. People died w/o access to basic services. /1 https://t.co/WnbX7qNGeg

— John D. Sutter (@jdsutter) September 13, 2018

In a normal government there would be a commission investigating the Puerto Rico response for months already and hauling administration officials to testify how the president got this information https://t.co/Rju4fCWXU9

— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) September 13, 2018

When the facts are inconvenient, attack the facts. https://t.co/XQBz5bstY3

— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) September 13, 2018

Trump says Dems manufactured the 3,000 death toll from the hurricane in Puerto Rico last year “to make me look bad.” For those who ask if he really believes this, the answer is yes. https://t.co/N3wJPZianj

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) September 13, 2018

For over a year, Trump has insisted the federal government’s response to Hurricane Maria has been getting “great marks.” That’s true: It’s been getting great marks from the president himself, and almost no one else. https://t.co/LfGCPxivy1 pic.twitter.com/KTnUaraZnp

— The New Republic (@newrepublic) September 13, 2018

Innovations in presidenting https://t.co/3msgTRRNEV

— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) September 13, 2018

I didn't think he could make this worse than his 1st tweet

But he did! https://t.co/OJqCsCEZqP

— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) September 13, 2018

The idea that the huge death toll on Puerto Rico is "really no one's fault" rather than an urgent question for Congress to investigate through oversight is the perfect encapsulation of @SpeakerRyan utter abandonment of oversight role & any effort to hold Trump accountable https://t.co/AyndrkWuxi

— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) September 13, 2018

Lindsey Graham tells us that Trump views every slight as “undercutting his legitimacy,” which is why he can’t admit mistakes like in Puerto Rico. He says that it shouldn’t be hard to acknowledge some mistakes were made.

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) September 13, 2018

New White House response to Puerto Rico deaths from hurricane and why @realDonaldTrump tweeted on this today stirring new controversy pic.twitter.com/mVCpJKUVkO

— Kelly O'Donnell (@KellyO) September 13, 2018

Amartya Sen famously argued that preventable mass-fatality natural disasters don't happen in a well-functioning democracy. Political feedback loops of free press+free elections make this too costly to people in power. The extent of our polarization is frightening in this context. https://t.co/ocNmSxZk0l

— Harold Pollack (@haroldpollack) September 14, 2018

Refusing to endorse an unsupported conspiracy theory = disloyalty https://t.co/O7DQTsdcWg

— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) September 18, 2018

Woodward reports that Trump lies in phone calls with Gold Star families about what their dead loved-ones did in the military. #Fear pic.twitter.com/lLSFqvBo8c

— Max de Haldevang (@MddeH) September 11, 2018

This is simply not true. Death toll in Puerto Rico was near 3,000, basically same as 9/11. GAO ripped FEMA response: https://t.co/VPzOKkRvzl https://t.co/24E5RPHxc0

— Paul Farhi (@farhip) September 12, 2018

Trump is bragging about his handling of Puerto Rico.

3,000 people DIED. What an awful human being.

— Zerlina Maxwell (@ZerlinaMaxwell) September 11, 2018

The current death toll for Puerto Rico – revised upward from 64 initially – is now estimated at roughly the same as those on Sept. 11, 2001. https://t.co/JsptEzlubE

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) September 11, 2018

Trump just told reporters that the admin's response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico was "incredibly successful." He continues, "it was an incredible, unsung success."

Puerto Rico just changed the death toll from Maria from 64 to 2,975.

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 11, 2018

Here's the chart of Trump's false claims by month. It's been bad since mid-2017, but the last three months have been by far the worst. pic.twitter.com/jTJgPQMEp0

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 12, 2018

My favourite Trump lie from the last week of August was his claim, at an official event, that the lake beside his Charlotte golf course is the "largest man-made lake in the world, by far."

The largest man-made lake in the United States is 25 times larger. pic.twitter.com/cbcBQQW0yp

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 12, 2018

Trump false claims in the last week of August:
– 20 in Bloomberg interview
– 17 at Indiana campaign rally
– 13 at NC GOP fundraiser
– 10 on Twitter
– 9 at NC speech "on retirement security"https://t.co/t2bnPJQqIV

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 12, 2018

17 Years of Donald Trump's Weird Lies About 9/11 pic.twitter.com/5TMIt0QlyR

— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) September 11, 2018

https://t.co/Xfe1GsSZ87 pic.twitter.com/vmupo5ZI1N

— Share the Facts (@sharethefact) September 6, 2018