Jan.
21 “I wasn't a fan of Iraq. I didn't want to go into Iraq.” (He
was for an invasion before he was against it.) “A reporter
for Time magazine — and I have been on their cover 14 or 15 times. I think we
have the all-time record in the history of Time magazine.” (Trump was on the
cover 11 times and Nixon appeared 55 times.)
Jan. 23 “Between 3
million and 5 million illegal votes caused me to lose the popular vote.” (There's
no evidence of illegal voting.)
Jan. 25 “Now, the audience was the
biggest ever. But this crowd was massive. Look how far back it goes. This crowd
was massive.” (Official aerial photos show Obama's 2009 inauguration was much
more heavily attended.) “Take a look at the Pew reports
(which show voter fraud.)” (The report never mentioned voter fraud.) “You had millions of people that now aren't insured anymore.” (The
real number is less than 1 million, according to the Urban Institute.) “So, look, when President Obama was there two weeks ago making a
speech, very nice speech. Two people were shot and killed during his speech.
You can't have that.” (There were no gun homicide victims in Chicago that day.)
Jan.
26 “We've taken in tens of thousands of people. We know nothing about
them. They can say they vet them. They didn't vet them. They have no papers.
How can you vet somebody when you don't know anything about them and you have
no papers? How do you vet them? You can't.” (Vetting lasts up to two years.) “I cut off hundreds of millions of dollars off one particular
plane, hundreds of millions of dollars in a short period of time. It wasn't
like I spent, like, weeks, hours, less than hours, and many, many hundreds of
millions of dollars. And the plane's going to be better.” (Most of the cuts
were already planned.)
Jan. 28 “The coverage about me in the
@nytimes and the @washingtonpost has been so false and angry that the Times
actually apologized to its dwindling subscribers and readers.” (It never
apologized.)
Jan. 29 “The Cuban-Americans, I got 84 percent of that
vote.” (There is no support for this.)
Jan. 30 “Only 109 people out
of 325,000 were detained and held for questioning. Big problems at airports
were caused by Delta computer outage.” (At least 746 people were detained and
processed, and the Delta outage happened two days later.)
Feb.
3 “Professional anarchists, thugs and paid protesters are
proving the point of the millions of people who voted to MAKE AMERICA GREAT
AGAIN!” (There is no evidence of paid protesters.)
Feb. 4 “After being
forced to apologize for its bad and inaccurate coverage of me after winning the
election, the FAKE NEWS @nytimes is still lost!” (It never apologized.)
Feb.
5 “We had 109 people out of hundreds of thousands of travelers and all
we did was vet those people very, very carefully.” (About 60,000 people were
affected.)
Feb. 6 “I have already saved more than $700 million when
I got involved in the negotiation on the F-35.” (Much of the price drop was
projected before Trump took office.) “It's gotten to a point
where it is not even being reported. And in many cases, the very, very
dishonest press doesn't want to report it.” (Terrorism has been reported on,
often in detail.) “The failing @nytimes was forced to
apologize to its subscribers for the poor reporting it did on my election win.
Now they are worse!” (It didn't apologize.) “And the previous
administration allowed it to happen because we shouldn't have been in Iraq, but
we shouldn't have gotten out the way we got out. It created a vacuum, ISIS was
formed.” (The group’s origins date to 2004.)
Feb. 7 “And yet the
murder rate in our country is the highest it’s been in 47 years, right? Did you
know that? Forty-seven years.” (It was higher in the 1980s and '90s.) “I saved more than $600 million. I got involved in negotiation on a
fighter jet, the F-35.” (The Defense Department projected this price drop
before Trump took office.)
Feb. 9 “Chris Cuomo, in his interview
with Sen. Blumenthal, never asked him about his long-term lie about his brave
‘service’ in Vietnam. FAKE NEWS!” (It was part of Cuomo's first question.) Sen. Richard Blumenthal “now misrepresents what Judge Gorsuch told
him?” (The Gorsuch comments were later corroborated.)
Feb. 10 “I
don’t know about it. I haven’t seen it. What report is that?” (Trump knew about
Flynn's actions for weeks.)
Feb. 12 “Just leaving Florida. Big
crowds of enthusiastic supporters lining the road that the FAKE NEWS media
refuses to mention. Very dishonest!” (The media did cover it.)
Feb. 16 “We
got 306 because people came out and voted like they've never seen before so
that's the way it goes. I guess it was the biggest Electoral College win since
Ronald Reagan.” (George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama all won bigger
margins in the Electoral College.) “That’s the other thing
that was wrong with the travel ban. You had Delta with a massive problem with
their computer system at the airports.” (Delta's problems happened two days
later.) “Walmart announced it will create 10,000 jobs in the
United States just this year because of our various plans and initiatives.” (The
jobs are a result of its investment plans announced in October 2016.) “When WikiLeaks, which I had nothing to do with, comes out and
happens to give, they’re not giving classified information.” (Not always. They
have released classified information in the past.) “We had a
very smooth rollout of the travel ban. But we had a bad court. Got a bad
decision.” (The rollout was chaotic.) “They’re giving stuff
— what was said at an office about Hillary cheating on the debates. Which, by
the way, nobody mentions. Nobody mentions that Hillary received the questions
to the debates.” (It was widely covered.)
Feb. 18 “And there was no
way to vet those people. There was no documentation. There was no nothing.” (Refugees
receive multiple background checks, taking up to two years.) “You
look at what's happening in Germany, you look at what's happening last night in
Sweden. Sweden, who would believe this?” (Trump implied there was a terror
attack in Sweden, but there was no such attack.)
Feb. 24 “By the
way, you folks are in here — this place is packed, there are lines that go back
six blocks.” (There was no evidence of long lines.) “ICE
came and endorsed me.” (Only its union did.) “Obamacare
covers very few people — and remember, deduct from the number all of the people
that had great health care that they loved that was taken away from them — it
was taken away from them.” (Obamacare increased coverage by a net of about 20
million.)
Feb. 27 “Since Obamacare went into effect, nearly half of
the insurers are stopped and have stopped from participating in the Obamacare
exchanges.” (Many fewer pulled out.) “On one plane, on a
small order of one plane, I saved $725 million. And I would say I devoted
about, if I added it up, all those calls, probably about an hour. So I think
that might be my highest and best use.” (Much of the price cut was already
projected.)
Feb. 28 “And now, based on our very strong and frank
discussions, they are beginning to do just that.” (NATO countries agreed to
meet defense spending requirements in 2014.) “The E.P.A.’s
regulators were putting people out of jobs by the hundreds of thousands.” (There's
no evidence that the Waters of the United States rule caused severe job
losses.) “We have begun to drain the swamp of government
corruption by imposing a five-year ban on lobbying by executive branch
officials.” (They can't lobby their former agency but can still become
lobbyists.)
March
3 “It is so pathetic that the Dems have still not approved my
full Cabinet.” (Paperwork for the last two candidates was still not submitted
to the Senate.)
March 4 “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my
‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is
McCarthyism!” (There's no evidence of a wiretap.) “How low
has President Obama gone to tap my phones during the very sacred election
process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!” (There's no evidence of a
wiretap.)
March 7 “122 vicious prisoners, released by the Obama
Administration from Gitmo, have returned to the battlefield. Just another
terrible decision!” (113 of them were released by President George W. Bush.)
March
13 “I saved a lot of money on those jets, didn't I? Did I do a good
job? More than $725 million on them.” (Much of the cost cuts were planned
before Trump.) “First of all, it covers very few people.” (About
20 million people gained insurance under Obamacare.)
March 15 “On
the airplanes, I saved $725 million. Probably took me a half an hour if you
added up all of the times.” (Much of the cost cuts were planned before Trump.)
March
17 “I was in Tennessee — I was just telling the folks — and half of
the state has no insurance company, and the other half is going to lose the
insurance company.” (There's at least one insurer in every Tennessee county.)
March
20 “With just one negotiation on one set of airplanes, I saved the
taxpayers of our country over $700 million.” (Much of the cost cuts were
planned before Trump.)
March 21 “To save taxpayer dollars, I’ve
already begun negotiating better contracts for the federal government — saving
over $700 million on just one set of airplanes of which there are many sets.” (Much
of the cost cuts were planned before Trump.)
March 22 “I make the
statement, everyone goes crazy. The next day they have a massive riot, and
death, and problems.” (Riots in Sweden broke out two days later and there were
no deaths.) “NATO, obsolete, because it doesn’t cover
terrorism. They fixed that.” (It has fought terrorism since the 1980s.) “Well, now, if you take a look at the votes, when I say that, I
mean mostly they register wrong — in other words, for the votes, they register
incorrectly and/or illegally. And they then vote. You have tremendous numbers
of people.” (There's no evidence of widespread voter fraud.)
March 29 “Remember
when the failing @nytimes apologized to its subscribers, right after the
election, because their coverage was so wrong. Now worse!” (It didn't
apologize.)
March 31 “We have a lot of plants going up now in
Michigan that were never going to be there if I — if I didn’t win this
election, those plants would never even think about going back. They were
gone.” (These investments were already planned.)
April
2 “And I was totally opposed to the war in the Middle East
which I think finally has been proven, people tried very hard to say I wasn’t
but you’ve seen that it is now improving.” (He was for an invasion before he
was against it.) “Now, my last tweet — you know, the one
that you are talking about, perhaps — was the one about being, in quotes,
wiretapped, meaning surveilled. Guess what, it is turning out to be true.” (There
is still no evidence.)
April 5 “You have many states coming up where
they’re going to have no insurance company. O.K.? It’s already happened in
Tennessee. It’s happening in Kentucky. Tennessee only has half coverage. Half
the state is gone. They left.” (Every marketplace region in Tennessee had at
least one insurer.)
April 6 “If you look at the kind of cost-cutting
we’ve been able to achieve with the military and at the same time ordering vast
amounts of equipment — saved hundreds of millions of dollars on airplanes, and
really billions, because if you take that out over a period of years it’s many
billions of dollars — I think we’ve had a tremendous success.” (Much of the
price cuts were already projected.)
April 11 “I like Steve, but you
have to remember he was not involved in my campaign until very late. I had
already beaten all the senators and all the governors, and I didn’t know
Steve.” (He knew Steve Bannon since 2011.)
April 12 “You can't do it
faster, because they're obstructing. They're obstructionists. So I have people
— hundreds of people that we're trying to get through. I mean you have — you
see the backlog. We can't get them through.” (At this point, he had not
nominated anyone for hundreds of positions.) “The New York
Times said the word wiretapped in the headline of the first edition. Then they
took it out of there fast when they realized.” (There were separate headlines
for print and web, but neither were altered.) “The
secretary general and I had a productive discussion about what more NATO can do
in the fight against terrorism. I complained about that a long time ago and
they made a change, and now they do fight terrorism.” (NATO has been engaged in
counterterrorism efforts since the 1980s.) “Mosul was
supposed to last for a week and now they’ve been fighting it for many months
and so many more people died.” (The campaign was expected to take months.)
April
16 “Someone should look into who paid for the small organized rallies
yesterday. The election is over!” (There's no evidence of paid protesters.)
April
18 “The fake media goes, ‘Donald Trump changed his stance on China.’ I
haven’t changed my stance.” (He did.)
April 21 “On 90 planes I saved
$725 million. It's actually a little bit more than that, but it's $725
million.” (Much of the price cuts were already projected.) “When
WikiLeaks came out … never heard of WikiLeaks, never heard of it.” (He
criticized it as early as 2010.)
April 27 “I want to help our miners
while the Democrats are blocking their healthcare.” (The bill to extend health
benefits for certain coal miners was introduced by a Democrat and was
co-sponsored by mostly Democrats.)
April 28 “The trade deficit with
Mexico is close to $70 billion, even with Canada it’s $17 billion trade deficit
with Canada.” (The U.S. had an $8.1 billion trade surplus, not deficit, with
Canada in 2016.) “She's running against someone who's going
to raise your taxes to the sky, destroy your health care, and he's for open
borders — lots of crime.” (Those are not Jon Ossoff's positions.) “The F-35 fighter jet program — it was way over budget. I’ve saved
$725 million plus, just by getting involved in the negotiation.” (Much of the
price cuts were planned before Trump.)
April 29 “They're
incompetent, dishonest people who after an election had to apologize because
they covered it, us, me, but all of us, they covered it so badly that they felt
they were forced to apologize because their predictions were so bad.” (The
Times did not apologize.) “As you know, I've been a big
critic of China, and I've been talking about currency manipulation for a long
time. But I have to tell you that during the election, number one, they
stopped.” (China stopped years ago.) “I've already saved
more than $725 million on a simple order of F-35 planes. I got involved in the
negotiation.” (Much of the price cuts were planned before Trump.) “We're also getting NATO countries to finally step up and
contribute their fair share. They've begun to increase their contributions by
billions of dollars, but we are not going to be satisfied until everyone pays
what they owe.” (The deal was struck in 2014.) “When they
talk about currency manipulation, and I did say I would call China, if they
were, a currency manipulator, early in my tenure. And then I get there. Number
one, they — as soon as I got elected, they stopped.” (China stopped in 2014.) “I was negotiating to reduce the price of the big fighter jet
contract, the F-35, which was totally out of control. I will save billions and
billions and billions of dollars.” (Most of the cuts were planned before
Trump.) “I think our side's been proven very strongly. And
everybody's talking about it.” (There's still no evidence Trump's phones were
tapped.)
May
1 “Well, we are protecting pre-existing conditions. And it'll
be every good — bit as good on pre-existing conditions as Obamacare.” (The bill
weakens protections for people with pre-existing conditions.) “The
F-35 fighter jet — I saved — I got involved in the negotiation. It's 2,500
jets. I negotiated for 90 planes, lot 10. I got $725 million off the price.” (Much
of the price cuts were planned before Trump.) “First of all,
since I started running, they haven't increased their — you know, they have not
manipulated their currency. I think that was out of respect to me and the
campaign.” (China stopped years ago.)
May 2 “I love buying those
planes at a reduced price. I have been really — I have cut billions — I have to
tell you this, and they can check, right, Martha? I have cut billions and
billions of dollars off plane contracts sitting here.” (Much of the cost cuts
were planned before Trump.)
May 4 “Number two, they’re actually not
a currency [manipulator]. You know, since I’ve been talking about currency
manipulation with respect to them and other countries, they stopped.” (China
stopped years ago.) “We’re the highest-taxed nation in the
world.” (We're not.) “Nobody cares about my tax return except
for the reporters.” (Polls show most Americans do care.)
May 8 “You
know we’ve gotten billions of dollars more in NATO than we’re getting. All
because of me.” (The deal was struck in 2014.) “But when I did
his show, which by the way was very highly rated. It was high — highest rating.
The highest rating he’s ever had.” (Colbert's “Late Show” debut had nearly two
million more viewers.) “Director Clapper reiterated what
everybody, including the fake media already knows — there is ‘no evidence’ of
collusion w/ Russia and Trump.” (Clapper only said he wasn't aware of an
investigation.)
May 12 “Again, the story that there was collusion
between the Russians & Trump campaign was fabricated by Dems as an excuse
for losing the election.” (The F.B.I. was investigating before the election.) “When James Clapper himself, and virtually everyone else with
knowledge of the witch hunt, says there is no collusion, when does it end?” (Clapper
said he wouldn't have been told of an investigation into collusion.)
May
13 “I'm cutting the price of airplanes with Lockheed.” (The cost cuts
were planned before he became president.)
May 26 “Just arrived in
Italy for the G7. Trip has been very successful. We made and saved the USA many
billions of dollars and millions of jobs.” (He's referencing an arms deal
that's not enacted and other apparent deals that weren't announced on the
trip.)
June
1 “China will be allowed to build hundreds of additional coal
plants. So, we can’t build the plants, but they can, according to this
agreement. India will be allowed to double its coal production by 2020.” (The
agreement doesn’t allow or disallow building coal plants.) “I’ve
just returned from a trip overseas where we concluded nearly $350 billion of
military and economic development for the United States, creating hundreds of
thousands of jobs.” (Trump’s figures are inflated and premature.)
June
4 “At least 7 dead and 48 wounded in terror attack and Mayor of London
says there is ‘no reason to be alarmed!’” (The mayor was specifically talking
about the enlarged police presence on the streets.)
June 5 “The Justice
Dept. should have stayed with the original Travel Ban, not the watered down,
politically correct version they submitted to S.C.” (Trump signed this version
of the travel ban, not the Justice Department.)
June 21 “They all
say it's 'nonbinding.' Like hell it's nonbinding.” (The Paris climate agreement
is nonbinding — and Trump said so in his speech announcing the withdrawal.) “Right now, we are one of the highest-taxed nations in the world.” (We're
not.)…
I read the NYT yesterday, courtesy of a fellow traveler (we, too, paid it forward, leaving the Sunday NYT for others to read, enjoy & pass on to others).
ReplyDeleteThere was a lie for each day (& it was EVERY day), & this took up an ENTIRE page.
Most politicians spin, stretch the truth, and lie outrightly to one degree or another, but one can be certain that all things that pour from Trump mouth are bold-faced lies. The difference in lying between Trump and other politicians is that Trump is so bad at it.
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