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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's press secretary says with any other president, 'the media would take him at his word'
https://news.yahoo.com/trumps-press-secretary-says-other-043700599.htmlThat's because no president has lied as much as diaper Donnie has.
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(3,888 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)The Magistrate
(95,247 posts)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....
Wounded Bear
(58,648 posts)RockRaven
(14,964 posts)Willful or not, it's terribly pathetic.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)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)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.
bottomofthehill
(8,329 posts)So they cant trust a word he says.
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)Not republicans
I didnt trust Bush
Or Bush
Or Reagan
I was too young to distrust Nixon (4 years old) but Im sure had I known what he was saying I would have known he was lying too
UpInArms
(51,282 posts)The Fact Checkers ongoing database of the false or misleading claims made by President Trump since assuming office.
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/