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By Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly May 1 at 3:00 AM
In the 466 days since he took the oath of office, President Trump has made 3,001 false or misleading claims, according to The Fact Checkers database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement uttered by the president.
Thats an average of nearly 6.5 claims a day.
When we first started this project for the presidents first 100 days, he averaged 4.9 claims a day. Slowly, the average number of claims has been creeping up.
Indeed, since we last updated this tally two months ago, the president has averaged about 9 claims a day.
Our interactive graphic, created with the help of Leslie Shapiro and Kaeti Hinck of The Washington Posts graphics department, displays a running list of every false or misleading statement made by Trump. We also catalogued the presidents many flip-flops, since those earn Upside-Down Pinocchios if a politician shifts position on an issue without acknowledging that he or she did so.
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Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)6 lies a day. How in the hell did we get here?
imanamerican63
(13,668 posts)10,001 more to come before the end of this week!
NewJeffCT
(56,827 posts)does that include lies he tells multiple times? I mean, if he says "NO COLLUSION" 100 times does that count as one lie or 100?
k8conant
(3,030 posts)There's an interactive timeline to check by topic or keywords and it shows how many times that "claim" is repeated.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)That tells a whole lot about the moral rot at the heart of the KGOP.
This is a record
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)What about all the lies the Democrat President has told? You libruls never talk about that, do you? You're so partisan!
Rhiannon12866
(202,966 posts)Jimmy Carter promised to "always tell the truth" as president and the press were all over every single statement he ever made, looking for the slightest mistruth!