Statements made by US President Trump during his first month in office that PolitiFact has rated as False, Mostly False or Pants on Fire:
January 20th 2017:
“We’ve made other countries rich while the wealth … of our country has dissipated over the horizon.”
Mostly False: Not by the typical measures.
January 22nd:
“The media … sort of made it sound like I had a feud with the intelligence community.”
False: Unprecedented tough words.
January 23rd:
“In our nation’s capital, killings have risen by 50 percent.”
Mostly False: Most recent data shows a decline.
January 26th:
“Here in Philadelphia murder has been steady — I mean — just terribly increasing.”
False: They were the third-lowest last year since 1990.
January 26th:
Says ICE and border patrol officers “unanimously endorsed me for president.”
Mostly False: Support from unions, but not from all members.
January 29th:
“If you were a Muslim, you could come in, if you were a Christian, it was impossible.”
False: Christian refugees have entered US.
January 30th:
“My policy is similar to what President Obama did in 2011 when he banned visas for refugees from Iraq for six months.”
Mostly False: Obama was more specific and narrower.
February 6th:
Says “109 people out of hundreds of thousands of travelers” were affected by the immigration executive order.
False: More like 60,000+.
February 6th:
Terrorism and terrorist attacks in the United States and Europe have “gotten to a point where it’s not even being reported.”
Pants on Fire: An abundance of coverage.
February 7th:
“Smart! ‘Kuwait issues its own Trump-esque visa ban for five Muslim-majority countries.’ “
Mostly False: Kuwait move was old news, at best.
February 7th:
“I have already saved more than $700 million when I got involved in the negotiation on the F-35.”
Mostly False: Savings already in the works.
February 8th:
“The murder rate in our country is the highest it’s been in 47 years.”
False: This is wrong.
February 9th:
Says CNN’s Chris Cuomo “never asked” Sen. Richard Blumenthal about Blumenthal’s misstatements on his own service in Vietnam.
False: Cuomo did ask about it.
February 12th:
“While on FAKE NEWS @CNN, Bernie Sanders was cut off for using the term fake news to describe the network. They said technical difficulties!”
False: Sanders was mocking Trump.
February 16th:
The media has “a lower approval rate than Congress.”
Mostly False: Congress wins a race to the bottom.
February 19th:
“Look at what’s happening last night in Sweden. Sweden, who would believe this? Sweden. They took in large numbers. They’re having problems like they never thought possible.”
False: Bowling Green massacre, part two.
And this does not even count the stuff said on his behalf by his spokesman Sean “Alternative Facts” Spicer or adviser Kellyanne “Bowling Green Massacre” Conway.
Nor does it count Trump’s Mind-Bender of the Month (February 16th):
“The leaks are absolutely real, but the news is fake.”
Republican Bubble: According to an Emerson College poll that came out on Feburary 7th, 91% of registered Republican voters think the Trump Administration is truthful, while 88% think the press is untruthful.
– Abagond, 2017.
Source: PolitiFact, Emerson College, YouTube.
See also:
- fake news
- alternative facts
- Bowling Green Massacre
- Republican Bubble
- Trump’s truthfulness during the debates:
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Who needs black history anyway? Judging by the number of posts this month about Trump, his beliefs, policies or the presidency, Breitbart, etc. abagond should go ahead and declare this Trump History Month.
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He’s a liar. Plain and simple.
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Tom the Dancing Bug misses the obvious culprit. Putin did it!!! He planted that knife on Trump. Accusing the leaker sounds like the playbook of the Obama administration and Hillary. The crime is not what Obama or Hillary did. It’s those pesky leakers. Like Snowden and Manning and Assange and WikiLeaks. Look away from the malfeasance of these political predators! Stole the election! Killed innocents! Spied on the world! Never mind that. It’s those nefarious leakers that are the real murderers.
And Putin.
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“…. abagond should go ahead and declare this Trump History Month.”
@resw
Don’t you mean the Trump History AND Prophetic Future (as told by the ongoing local legion of resident Trump experts: seers, third eye gypsies, fortune tellers and pre-crime specialists that have specialized foreknowledge of what Trump is going to do next) Month??
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I’m surprised he’s not claiming USA’s the only country on earth without WMDs. Or am I predicting his next one…? 😀
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“I’m surprised he’s not claiming USA’s the only country on earth without WMDs.”
and I’m surprised that no one here is claiming that he’s the literal antichrist …. not that he can’t be coz anything is possible… (even if Hillary is a more fitting candidate for that prestigious job description) Just sayin’
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Reblogged this on League of Bloggers For a Better World.
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That was an awesome comic
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True, Trump lies a lot. But it seems to be a lot of little trivial, shaking your head why lies. There’s lies. And then theirs lies. We have had presidents lie about some mighty big things. Like the need to drop the atomic bomb or invade Iraq. Big lies. The president we’ve just had is one of the biggest liars I’ve ever seen; if not the biggest. Not so much the quantity but the size of the lies. Like ‘I’m gon close Guantanamo’ or’ I’m for universal healthcare’ or ‘Assad used poison gas’ and on and on. But one thing about Trump that makes him more honest than Obama or most other presidents. He’s doing what he said he was going to do during his campaign. Or attempting to. You may not like what he’s attempting to do. The Wall. The Muslim ban. But he’s doing what he promised. That’s a kind of honesty, in spite of all the lies. What he most talked about on the campaign trail, the TTP or as some call it the TPP. Gone! Just like he said, in the first week of his presidency. He lies a lot, but he’s a president that keeps his campaign promises, which is more than I can say for Obama.
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@Abagond
Trump is such a liar. Great job keep exposing him.
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His first full sentence as a baby was probably a lie: “I didn’t S myself Mommy a Nword must’ve planted it on me.
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“He’s doing what he said he was going to do during his campaign. Or attempting to. You may not like what he’s attempting to do. The Wall. The Muslim ban. But he’s doing what he promised. ”
Which in itself is a gigantic departure from normalcy in Amerikan politics.
Maybe if Trump had a career in politics in a state (Vermont?) where his constituents were big time drug users, or previously held a high office (Sec of State) where the stakes were ya gotta pay (big time to a certain foundation) to play, the Amerikan MSM wouldn’t be so focused on his lies – as opposed to everyone else’s. Hypocrisy isn’t a strong enough word!
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Trump is intent on perpetuating a narrative that is advantageous to him. In doing so, his statements don’t need to be true. They only need to be repeated. It’s a key technique used in advertising and propaganda.
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Oh yes, busily draining the swamp and locking her up.
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abagond
https://normanpilon.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/cjones11142016.jpg?w=620&h=468
yeah, youre right about that. the swamp just keeps getting scarier. lets hope once the dust settles from all of these deep state attacks, he’ll get around to prosecuting Hillary. that’s one promise id like to see him keep.
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He made a statemnent about Sweden which was completely “wtf”. A former foreign minister, who was right-wing, even mocked it:http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/02/19/former-swedish-prime-minister-mocks-trump-on-twitter-what-has-he-been-smoking/
The US preisdent is a complete nutcase.
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While there is some entertainment value in cataloguing Trump’s lies, I think we should be intensely focused on the policies and actions of the Trump cabinet and the Republican controlled Congress.
Focusing on Trump’s lies is like pulling the curtain on the Wizard of Oz over and over again while ignoring the Wicked Witches and their Flying Monkeys who are wreaking havoc on the ground and in the air——–and who are planning even more havoc to come.
For example, Ajit Pai, the new head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has already taken steps to undo the net neutrality victory won by activists under the Obama administration. According to the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers:
https://blog.wan-ifra.org/2017/02/08/new-fcc-head-starts-undoing-net-neutrality
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Amanda Marcotte wrote an article in Salon that explored how Chairman Pai is targeting the removal of phone and broadband subsidies for low-income Americans. Marcotte writes:
Marcotte sums up Pai’s (and other rightwingers) opposition to the Lifeline subsidy with this statement:
http://www.salon.com/2017/02/07/from-obamaphones-to-an-attack-on-internet-access-the-strange-afterlife-of-a-right-wing-meme/
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@Afrofem: I see no lies told in your post i knew this administration would come for the low income working class and disenfranchised to keep them in the dark where they won’t even be able to do the simplest things like pay their bills online and inconvience those individuals. I like the Wizard of Oz reference about the flying monkeys and the wicked witch because that’s who this evil administration is Trump being the wicked witch and the cabinet are his evil minions the flying monkeys.
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I dunno which is worse: The lying or that there are people stupid enough to believe them.
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@Brothawolf:The lying and the stupid people who believe him are scary. You just never know what insane thing that will come out of his diseased brain.
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I dunno which is worse: The lying or that there are people stupid enough to believe them.
A bit of both I suspect.
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hatred of trump is well and good. but remember. when you impeach trump, you get pence. shudder!
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2017/03/palace-coup-replace-trump-pence.html
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for those who think trump voters were primarily white racists, here’s some interesting data
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2017/03/democratic-party-facing-demographic-crisis.html
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@Nomad
Ummm….that actually doesn’t disprove that they weren’t. The word primarily is equivalent to mainly. His main voters were simply white males. Not to mention Rion the possibilities of members of those minority groups being supporters of white supremacy ideaology.
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careful what you wish for. you might get it.
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@nomad
You are right, Pence represents a poison pill we would all have to swallow if the Deep State succeeds in ejecting Trump. No good choices there.
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allow white people the same leeway you would allow yourselves.
all of you, as far as I can tell, would have voted or did vote for the racist Hillary as the lesser of two evils. many whites (not to mention blacks and Hispanics) voted for trump not because he was a racist, but because they saw him as the lesser of two evils; the same as you did when you voted for that racist Hillary Clinton. does your vote for that racist make you a racist too?
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@Afrofem
I always wonder how much of the things trump does it his idea vs pence. Trump knows nothing and does not really seem to care. So is trump not the face and pence the actual man in action?
@Nomad
I voted Stein so the “would have” logic does not apply to me, because in the moment I chose not to.
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@sharinalr
You make a good point. Pence is likely the person already doing the heavy lifting in the White House. Trump and his advisors are the clown car act of this circus.
@nomad
I voted for Stein, too.
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I stand corrected. all but two people here.
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@Afrofem
My theory is Pence was always meant to be the man, but because of his past of racist actions they felt he was hard to sell to the people. Now while Trump has said somethings that can be seen as racist, he was much more sell-able. Trump also is an easy puppet. They could do what they want with his approval, because he really doesn’t know anything regarding politics and so forth. I even believe that they are allowing him to make a spectacle so the people will kick him out and Pence can officially replace him.
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@sharinalr
Only time will tell. We are still less than 90 days into a 1,460 day presidency.
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