Trump’s false claims since he became president

Trump is now at 1,829 false claims for his presidency. His average is now up to 3.5 per day. It was 2.9 per day at the end of 2017. https://t.co/tUlVsaIQoY

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 26, 2018

The public wants to keep coverage for people with pre-existing conditions

The Trump administration wants to eliminate guaranteed coverage for people with pre-existing conditions. The public opposes this but that won’t stop them.

Trump said he would protect people with pre-existing conditions but that’s another lie.

ICYMI
65% of voters say a candidate’s support for continued protections for people with pre-existing health conditions is either the “single most important factor” or “very important” to their vote in the midterm elections (@KaiserFamFound) details: https://t.co/v9PCp9JRMW pic.twitter.com/3IaOBlSS6o

— OpinionToday.com (@OpinionToday) June 27, 2018

NEW: The Trump Administration has targeted the elimination of pre-existing condition protections through the courts.

Here’s what it means. Consider circulating. pic.twitter.com/PBWP5RWFKN

— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) June 26, 2018

Today, I and 47 other senators are calling on President Trump to abandon his administration’s latest efforts to take the guarantee of health care coverage away from more than 133 million Americans with pre-existing conditions – including 7.8 million in Florida. pic.twitter.com/IGlfHL5QUt

— Senator Bill Nelson (@SenBillNelson) June 26, 2018

"It’s hard to imagine anyone fighting to return to a system that left many people with pre-existing conditions unable to buy health insurance… but that’s exactly what many Republican-led states and the Trump administration are doing."https://t.co/tFD0Td3EbZ

— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) June 25, 2018

Trump promised during the campaign that he'd keep those protections.

"A bipartisan group of governors blasted President Trump for his decision to argue that ObamaCare’s protections for those who have pre-existing condition should be overturned." https://t.co/ncjT0b8KzA

— Barry Wile (@BarryWile82) June 19, 2018

“During his campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly promised to protect people with pre-existing conditions like cancer or diabetes… That was a lie. Now he's trying to strike down the protections he once called ‘one of the strongest assets’ of Obamacare.”https://t.co/tipjj5CVCl

— Ways and Means Dems (@WaysMeansCmte) June 15, 2018

100% agree. Also, if ins cos are able to discriminate again based on pre-existing conditions, upcoding is going to screw regular people, who'll have pre-existing conditions that inflate their healthcare premiums. https://t.co/t6It3bMgF9

— rajkmd (@rajkmd) June 18, 2018

By embracing a lawsuit that would end the ACA’s popular protections for people with pre-existing conditions, the Trump Administration has given Democrats a potential campaign weapon for the midterms, writes @DrewAltman in @axios https://t.co/1e2qwzaYRk

— Kaiser Family Foundation (@KaiserFamFound) June 11, 2018

Fact-checking Trump

Daniel Dale of the Toronto Star discussing Trump’s lies about U. S. Steel

Here’s a little thread about a major corporation, Trump’s lying, and the weirdness of attempting to fact-check him.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 25, 2018

Read the whole thread but I liked this one:

Companies would sometimes prefer the president lie about them than confirm that the president is lying about them. The End.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 25, 2018

Trump false claims

I would call them lies but Daniel Dale does a great job of tracking things Trump says that are not true. I recommend following him on Twitter. He comments on Trump’s speeches in real time.

TRUMP SHATTERS DISHONESTY RECORD: The president of the United States made 103 — 103 — false claims last week. Fifteen per day. https://t.co/2mL4fbjh0L

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 26, 2018

The New York Times: what to do when Trump says something that isn’t true?

This article shows Times editorial opinion and reader reaction.

I would call them lies, especially if he repeats them after they have been disproven which he does often.

Trump lie about alleged call from Fallon

Trump said Fallon called him. Fallon said he didn’t. Trump is a pathological liar so I believe Fallon. Trump has done this before as noted below.

Fallon says Trump was lying when he claimed Fallon called him to say his episode got big ratings. (Boy Scouts, president of Mexico, news anchors, probably US Steel — Trump is often lying when he says someone called or wrote him to give him a compliment.) https://t.co/9q8T0WREii

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 26, 2018

Trump doesn’t want to follow the immigration laws

Trump claims to support law and order but doesn’t want to follow the laws when it comes to immigration. Hypocrite. He’s playing to the bigoted part of his base.

We cannot allow all of these people to invade our Country. When somebody comes in, we must immediately, with no Judges or Court Cases, bring them back from where they came. Our system is a mockery to good immigration policy and Law and Order. Most children come without parents…

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 24, 2018

In a pair of tweets sent during his drive (to golf course?), Trump:
-described immigrants as invaders
-suggested stripping them of their legal rights
-said laws were a mockery and must be changed so undocumented immigrants could be deported immediately with no right to a trial

— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) June 24, 2018

Trump consistently behaves and speaks as though he longs to be a despot, unconstrained by democratic checks, due process, rule of law, or the press. This is a demonstrable fact. Republicans in Congress are complicit in his attacks on democratic institutions and should be ashamed. https://t.co/M6GDCJiIdL

— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) June 24, 2018

Trump claims immigration laws are 'a mockery,' seeks to deprive migrants of due process by deporting them without trial https://t.co/cLvcyvnljV

— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 24, 2018

Why is @realDonaldTrump just focusing on those who illegally crossed the southern boarder-Brown people and not focusing on the millions who of other races overstay their visas? That is part of illegal immigration!!!!

— AprilDRyan (@AprilDRyan) June 24, 2018

It is NOT an invasion.

An INVASION is what RUSSIA did via a campaign of CYBERWARFARE in 2016.

You FACILITATED that foreign invasion by repeatedly LYING about it in public statements and PERSECUTING those investigating it.

You now ENCOURAGE a REPEAT INVASION with your inaction. https://t.co/IN8g4TVAiJ

— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) June 24, 2018

Dear @realDonaldTrump: I will support merit based immigration based on the same standards that allowed your grandfather, who started off poor & as a barber, to immigrate to America as an unaccompanied minor.#SundayMorning Thoughts https://t.co/wthRMAUKRv

— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) June 24, 2018

If this had been our standard throughout history, America as we know it wouldn’t exist. https://t.co/Dx98sAhgNC

— Josh Greenman (@joshgreenman) June 24, 2018

One consistent theme of @realDonaldTrump’s immigration rhetoric is the belief that there should be little or no due process for illegal immigrants. His executive order seeks to detain families indefinitely. And here, he calls for no court cases at all before deportation. https://t.co/OtTGhRJOSh

— Michael D. Shear (@shearm) June 24, 2018

Trump called the media “almost treasonous”

This sounds like a dictator to me. I don’t think much of the “deal”. It doesn’t end the nuclear threat like Trump claims. It was good that he met with Kim – that’s a start.

In an interview by Mike Huckabee, Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s dad, Trump just denounced the failure of media to depict his “deal” with NK as a great triumph as “almost treasonous.” That leaves “enemy of the people” a distant second in the fascist anti-1st Amendment sweepstakes.

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) June 24, 2018

What would you say if you saw it in another country? https://t.co/84YwihANVy

— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) June 24, 2018

Remember when he said not clapping for him was treasonous.

Trump’s border hoax

Trump knows immigration was a very successful issue for him since the first day of his campaign. He has created this crisis to rile up his base. I think he really doesn’t want to settle it before the 2018 election so he can keep ranting about immigration. This week, he sabotaged Republican efforts to make an immigration law. Democrats had earlier offered to fund the wall but he turned that deal opportunity down too.

This is an excellent column by Catherine Rampell in the Washington Post. She writes:

“The hoax is the premise that President Trump’s administration has invented to rationalize such crimes against humanity: his narrative that America has been “ infest[ed]” with hordes of crime-committing, culture-diluting, job-stealing, tax-shirking, benefits-draining “aliens.”
No part of that description is remotely true. Yet the Trump administration seems to have successfully shifted the national dialogue away from “Do we have a border immigration problem?” to “What’s the right way to fix our border immigration problem?””

This article states “…there is evidence, in federal data and on the ground in places like Brownsville that the immigration crisis Mr. Trump has cited over the past week to justify the separation of families is actually no crisis at all.”

There’s no immigration crisis, and these charts prove it https://t.co/pxR9BGwUer

— Michiko Kakutani (@michikokakutani) June 23, 2018

The Texas Monthly had a statewide survey a few years back 2/ https://t.co/YSXjzbB3Mo pic.twitter.com/emkaIbtdzY

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) June 23, 2018

A mayor of a border city pushes back on President Trump's claims of a crisis on the border https://t.co/XCNzJCAUyJ pic.twitter.com/gU3ZUjzse1

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 27, 2018

update:

The president calls it an illegal immigration crisis. Texas ranchers living along the border in the Rio Grande Valley call it business as usual — as Jaime Portillo says, “igual,” the same as ever. https://t.co/EXwDzsTj09

— amanda zamora (@amzam) June 30, 2018

Opinion: A visit to the southern border would change your mind https://t.co/vSQlu4CIrV

— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 4, 2018

Trump lies about the diversity lottery

https://twitter.com/BenjySarlin/status/1010250976111005699

Trump repeats his regular lie about the diversity visa lottery, falsely claiming other countries "put their absolute worst in a bin and start drawing people."

Individuals enter themselves in the lottery. The State Department conducts the lottery, not foreign countries.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 22, 2018

examples of people who benefitted from the lottery

Hello yes I won the Diversity Lottery. The gov't of my country of birth did not even know I entered, I did not need their clearance and certainly was not encouraged by them. I DID however need the US's clearance, which took time effort money and background checks. FWIW.

— Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir MPH&PhD (@kristjanahronn) June 22, 2018

When @Abdi_Iftin won the U.S. Diversity Visa lottery, he chose June 20, #WorldRefugeeDay, as his birthday. Today he reminds us that "the luckiest people are those who get to be born in free and peaceful countries."https://t.co/dUhw0m9FSt

— Alfred A. Knopf (@AAKnopf) June 20, 2018

https://twitter.com/S0nofaB1tch/status/1010259817640759297