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Trump's press secretary says with any other president, 'the media would take him at his word' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2020 OP
Telling, isn't it? iemitsu May 2020 #1
The reason he never tells the truth is the truth never benefits him. Eliot Rosewater May 2020 #2
No One Else Ever Lied So Much, Sir The Magistrate May 2020 #3
Gee, she noticed... Wounded Bear May 2020 #4
No insight or self-awareness displayed by Trumpland at any time in any circumstance... RockRaven May 2020 #5
"That's because no president has lied as much as diaper Donnie has." Ferrets are Cool May 2020 #6
Where has she been for the last 3 1/2 years? All he's done is lie. But she knows that. brush May 2020 #7
Yes but he is a chronic liar bottomofthehill May 2020 #8
Any other Democratic President yes SoonerPride May 2020 #9
In 1,170 days, President Trump has made 18,000 false or misleading claims UpInArms May 2020 #10

The Magistrate

(95,247 posts)
3. No One Else Ever Lied So Much, Sir
Wed May 20, 2020, 08:16 PM
May 2020

Nixon by compare was a paragon of truthfulness, and LBJ, 'credibility gap' and all, might have been hailed by Diogenes as a cause to put down his lamp, having found his honest man....

RockRaven

(14,964 posts)
5. No insight or self-awareness displayed by Trumpland at any time in any circumstance...
Wed May 20, 2020, 08:23 PM
May 2020

Willful or not, it's terribly pathetic.

Ferrets are Cool

(21,106 posts)
6. "That's because no president has lied as much as diaper Donnie has."
Wed May 20, 2020, 09:08 PM
May 2020

And that is saying a LOT after all the lies told during the jr administration. Lies that led to the deaths of almost ONE MILLION children, women and men.

brush

(53,773 posts)
7. Where has she been for the last 3 1/2 years? All he's done is lie. But she knows that.
Wed May 20, 2020, 10:10 PM
May 2020

That weak "any other president would be taken at his word" is all she could come up with.

Wanna hear a joke on the subject?

Guy dies and goes to heaven. St. Peter meets him at the Pearly Gates and there are clocks there as far as the eye can see.

He asks what the clocks are for?

St. Peter tells him they're lie clocks for everybody. When someone tells a lie the hands move. We keep track. See that one there that hands haven't moved? That's Mother Teresa's. And that one there where the hands moved one time, that's George Washington's.

The guy asks, since we're talking about president's, where's donald trump's?

St. Peter says, oh that one. Jesus keeps it in his office as a ceiling fan.

SoonerPride

(12,286 posts)
9. Any other Democratic President yes
Wed May 20, 2020, 10:40 PM
May 2020

Not republicans

I didn’t trust Bush
Or Bush
Or Reagan

I was too young to distrust Nixon (4 years old) but I’m sure had I known what he was saying I would have known he was lying too

UpInArms

(51,282 posts)
10. In 1,170 days, President Trump has made 18,000 false or misleading claims
Wed May 20, 2020, 10:42 PM
May 2020

The Fact Checker’s ongoing database of the false or misleading claims made by President Trump since assuming office.

Most repeated claims


“Again, we had the strongest economy in the world. We had our best ever. We had probably the best economy in the history of the world, bigger than China, bigger than anybody.”

FACT CHECK:
Trump normally just claims he once had the best economy in the history of the United States but here he even claims it was best economy in the history of the world. But it's not true even for the U.S. Before the coronavirus pandemic shuttered businesses and sent unemployment soaring, the president could certainly brag about the state of the economy in his first three years as president. But he ran into trouble when he made a play for the history books. By just about any important measure, the economy under Trump did not do as well as it did under Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson or Bill Clinton. The gross domestic product grew at an annual rate of 2.3 percent in 2019, slipping from 2.9 percent in 2018 and 2.4 percent in 2017. But in 1997, 1998 and 1999, GDP grew 4.5 percent, 4.5 percent and 4.7 percent, respectively. Yet even that period paled in comparison against the 1950s and 1960s. Growth between 1962 and 1966 ranged from 4.4 percent to 6.6 percent. In postwar 1950 and 1951, it was 8.7 percent and 8 percent, respectively. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate reached a low of 3.5 percent under Trump, but it dipped as low as 2.5 percent in 1953.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/
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