Donald Trump’s streak of falsehoods now stands at 33 days according to the Washington Post's fact-checkers:
Their calendar of his false statements looks like this:
Other fact-checkers had similar findings during Trump's campaign:
Various conservative posters here have taken to saying "[citation needed]" when people refer to Agent Orange's tendency to lie a lot, so I thought I'd clear things up with this thread.
Donald Trump has been president for all or part of 33 days. He has averaged four falsehoods or misleading statements a day(!) in that time. There hasn't been a single day of Trump's presidency in which he has said nothing false or misleading.
Their calendar of his false statements looks like this:
Other fact-checkers had similar findings during Trump's campaign:
- The Toronto Star fact-checked every public word out of Trump's mouth for a period of 28 days last September, and found 560 falsehoods - i.e. 20 per day. (They fact-checked every word out of Clinton's mouth during the same period and found 13 falsehoods)
- Politico's fact-checker found Trump making 87 false statements in 5 days, which worked out at 17 falsehoods a day, or one false statement per 3.25 minutes of speaking during 5 hours of talking analysed.
- Politifact has a number of categories it ranks statements in, but of the hundreds of Trump's statements it has fact-checked it has ranked 70% as mostly false, false, or pants on fire
Various conservative posters here have taken to saying "[citation needed]" when people refer to Agent Orange's tendency to lie a lot, so I thought I'd clear things up with this thread.
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