Fact check: No evidence for Trump's claim he was once named Michigan's 'Man of the Year'
(CNN)At a campaign rally in New Hampshire on Thursday, President Donald Trump made a handful of false claims, including returning to a claim he's made since the final days of the 2016 campaign.
He said he was once named Michigan's "Man of the Year."
Sounds impressive, but there is a significant problem here.
Facts First: Nobody has been able to find any evidence of Trump receiving such an award.
It is hard to definitively prove that something vague has not happened. So we'll leave open the possibility that Trump is talking about some actual event and that he and his team are just being coy about the details.
But neither we nor anyone else has been able to find a single detail. CNN has reached out to the White House and the Trump campaign about the claim, but has not heard back.
Trump first publicly uttered the claim on November 6, 2016, two days before the election, when he was making his successful last-ditch effort to win Michigan.
"I've been fighting for the car industry for years. I was honored five years ago. Man of the Year in Michigan. That was a great honor for me," he said at a rally in Sterling Heights, Michigan.
He then described a supposed controversy over his supposed Man of the Year acceptance speech.
"During my speech, all I talked about is what Mexico and these other countries are doing to us. And especially what they're doing to Michigan," he said. "That's all I talked about. And I was criticized. They said, 'Donald, speak about something else.' I said, 'No. What's happening is horrible."
Trump has repeated versions of the claim at least six times since, including at a roundtable with corporate leaders in Michigan in 2017 and a rally in Wisconsin this April.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/16/politics/donald-trump-michigan-man-of-the-year-fact-check/index.html
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Trumphausen's Syndrome
Like Munchausen's - but with tales of 21st century kleptocracy, rather than 18th century swashbuckling.
The late, great John Neville as Terry Gilliam's Baron Munchausen.
Mike Myers as Baron Trumphausen?
CNN failed to investigate Ku Klux Klan meetings, where Trump can get named "man of the year," anytime.
Young Donald Trump poses with his parents, who proudly display their Ku Klux Klan robes.
I have no problem believing Chump's claim. 
