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For some reason, our year-long project analyzing, categorizing and tracking every false or misleading claim by President Trump had seemed like quite a burden in the past month. Well, the numbers are in and now we know why: In the past 35 days, Trump has averaged an astonishing nine claims a day.

The total now stands at 1,628 claims in 298 days, or an average of 5.5 claims a day. That puts the president on track to reach 1,999 claims by the end of his first year in office, though he obviously would easily exceed 2,000 if he maintained the pace of the past month. (Our full interactive graphic can be found here.)

As regular readers know, the president has a tendency to repeat himself — often. There are now at least 50 claims that he has repeated three or more times.

Trump’s most repeated claim, uttered 60 times, was some variation of the statement that the Affordable Care Act is dying and “essentially dead.” The Congressional Budget Office has said that the Obamacare exchanges, despite well-documented issues, are not imploding and are expected to remain stable for the foreseeable future. Indeed, healthy enrollment for the coming year has surprised health-care experts.

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Trump also repeatedly takes credit for events or business decisions that happened before he took the oath of office — or had even been elected. Fifty-five times, he has touted that he secured business investments and job announcements that had been previously announced and could easily be found with a Google search.

But with the push in Congress to pass a tax plan, two of Trump’s favorite talking points about taxes — that the tax plan will be the biggest tax cut in U.S. history and that the United States is one of the highest-taxed nations — have been moving up the list.

Trump repeated the falsehood about having the biggest tax cut 40 times, even though Treasury Department data shows it would only rank eighth. And 50 times Trump has claimed that the United States pays the highest corporate taxes (19 times) or that it is one of the highest-taxed nations (31 times). The latter is false; the former is misleading, as the effective U.S. corporate tax rate (what companies end up paying after deductions and benefits) ends up being lower than the statutory tax rate.


We also track the president’s flip-flops on our list, as they are so glaring. He spent the 2016 campaign telling supporters that the unemployment rate was really 42 percent and the official statistics were phony; now, on 33 occasions he has hailed the lowest unemployment rate in 17 years. It was already very low when he was elected — 4.6 percent, the lowest in a decade — so his failure to acknowledge that is misleading.

Fifty-seven times, Trump has celebrated a rise in the stock market — even though in the campaign he repeatedly said it was a “bubble” that was ready to crash as soon as the Federal Reserve started raising interest rates. Well, the Fed did raise rates three times since the election — and yet it has not plunged as Trump predicted. It has continued a rise in stock prices that began under Barack Obama in 2009.

Again, the president has never explained his shift in position on the stock market. But he couldn’t stop talking about it during his trip to Asia.

We maintain the database by closely reading or watching Trump’s myriad public appearances and television and radio interviews. The interviews are especially hard to keep up with, in part because the White House does not routinely post on them on its website. Moreover, Trump tends to seek out right-leaning interviewers who rarely challenge him or question him when he repeats false claims that have already been fact-checked. The interviews thus often contain a torrent of misleading claims, and we despair that supposed journalists are not confronting the president about his rhetoric.


So we were amused to see a foreign leader fact-check the president on his Asian trip. On Nov. 13, Trump met with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe when he started to repeat one of his favorite false claims that the United States has “deficits with almost everybody.”

“Except us,” interjected Turnbull.

“Except with you,” Trump agreed, adding: “You’re the only one.” He then suggested he should check the figures, but Turnbull assured him, “It’s real.”

Indeed, the United States has a goods trade surplus of $13 billion and services trade surpluses of $15 billion with Australia, largely because of a Free Trade Agreement, according to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.

We assume Trump was joking when he said Australia was the “only one.” But for the record, the United States also has trade surpluses with the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Belgium, Singapore, Hong Kong, Chile, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, among other countries, according to the International Trade Commission.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/11/14/president-trump-has-made-1628-false-or-misleading-claims-over-298-days/?tid=sm_fb&utm_term=.bbc6d75b497f

mckazzy:
He never mentioned name. Y attributing what he did not say to him.

Guess instead make you watch the video na NTA Oyo you dey watch abi?

Yes,For the first time in Years i made front-page..I need to go celebrate it..Made FP on Mugabe's story this shows his ousting is a good one for Zimbabwe and Africa in General..However it might not be a good one in the long run if the Former VP that orchestrated this coup is retained back in Power..Time will tell!

Isoriat..

danilmo:
u lack logical reasoning if u still talk like this after the illustrations I gav u,..
get off

Come and heal the two people you are blabbing and going back and forth..nonesense

danilmo:
same tbing they told jesus..
wo
rest jor, u didn't get d analogy.. adamant to ur idea portraying ignorance ..
though nobody is forcing u to beliv or not.
this is christian not islam

I am not even a muslim so dont get it wrong..So why is it so hard to heal those two people are mentioned?You have only gone on a tirade..come and heal those people,you dey blab..abegi.

danilmo:
Jesus couldn't perform any miracle in his village, does that make jesus fake, Jesus did miracle for others which roman govt dint deny but did nothing on the cross, does that make him fake or made the whole jesus crusade on earth futile ?..

putting to test and confirm for ur belief may not work out , Christians gat faith before it work.. but for proving, nope except if need be which jesus asked his father in his days on earth while in mortal nature

Telling him to come and heal those two people is too hard for jesus to do?He already healed two people,let him come and heal these two too..Abi is that too hard for him to do?Why the epistle naa..Let him come and heal those two too..

QED!!!

In my street we have two mentally challenged People..One a woman that stays with her siblings and a retired soldier who lives all alone in his house..Mr Pastor this is a good case,The street is adeosun,Lifeforte-Apete,Ibadan..I would be happy if you can do it too abi you wan make these ones mad for life nii?

veekid:
So we should not wear condom any longer? Happney65!!!!! Where you dey? They say condom is not safe for the ministry no more oooooo

Them dey mad..As long as the condom no burst..Nothing do you..These people think they can scare person sha..Me,Lailai..TeamCondom all the way..

Who is that girl that came on stage with Akon?

Pray2425:
give you evidence that point to the fact that Asaba got the state capital due to maryam babaginda

Google is ur friend!!!

Most Delta People still do not count asaba as their state capital..Asaba became the capital courtsey of Babaginda's wife,Maryam babaginda who is from Asaba...She got the capital taken to asaba courtsey of her..Warri till the end of the world would still be regarded as the unofficial capital of Delta state

Hissssssssssssssssss

Lucasbalo:
You meant the fool that his parents are suffering in Ogbomosho and forming Bigman on nairaland.

Me no talk anything ohh..

schwarzkopf:
When the politics section was on fire, we dugged out the pictures of his poverty stricken household.

Unbelievable..Can i see those pictures?shey he dey there too?

schwarzkopf:
The in-house coward ran to the MOD when I wanna splash the thread with the pictures of his poverty ridden family.

Henhen?How were you able to do that?Is he that poor?

This thread was closed briefly..Wetin happen?

raumdeuter:
Lol Go ahead and write your GRE apply to schools and send your transcript, Contrary to what liberals want you to believe, America is still a great nation a prosperous nation and its getting better

There is no better place to be in the world if you are hardworking and willing to take risks

It is you conservatives that claim America is no longer a great Nation..You claimed unemployment is over 10% and the monthly job employment successes recorded month after month whole Obama held office was all fake..But nowadays it is no longer fake and it's real.very real..Isn't it?Yet under you conservatives unemployment was rife courtesy of the Bush years..Remember the type.of economy Clinton handed over to bush?remember the one bush handed over to Obama, and remember the one Obama handed over to Trump?

Under you,ur president is openly in bed with a foreign adversary Russia. .it is known fact that he is a Russian stooge and reluctant to offend his paymaster putin..so much for someone that claims he is strong and Obama is weak..so much for make America great again..

Dude made mad money from coming to Nigeria every now and then and claiming he is winning souls..which kain yeye souls.sometimes ago sef,pastors in oyo state even embezzled his money one time sef..All of them are all Mad.Reinhard Bonnke ohh,Daniel Kolenda,Cfan,CAN,MSSN.All of them weere..

timesup234:
Apple the greatest criminal corporation ever known to mankind. Every single company on the dow jones industrial average are very active in the theft and plunder that is associated with capitalism. You read and watch too much mainstrem media. I cant help your case. It will be difficult to break these things down for your since you are just a consumer

..Weere omooo ale jatijati

timesup234:
Lies, all the wealth of america were stolen via global capitalism. It is only fools who compare wealth of a nation via gdp that is backed by worthless paper money. The day the dollars dies the illusion will fall off your eyes. DRC Congo is a trillion times richer than America

Okay,let your own country too steal through global capitalism...Apple is on its way to become the world's trillion dollar company..I guess na capitalism them take steal that one too?You no get sense at all...Infact your brain don die patapata saying DR Congo get money pass america,infact somalia sef get money pass them...odee omoo

kroger:
chairman it will suprise you that the OP is still a small kid living with his parents in one remote area without electricity. He come nairaland dey talk trash..

Abi ohh..A country that more or less determine what goes on in almost all parts of the world..The comparism is not here at all..He should compare the US with other developed countries not Nigeria.He should make comparism between the US and Europe not Nigeria..Nigeria bawo?Infact seun suppose ban him for life for coming here and saying nonesense...He is very very stupid and i have no apologies to tender...Odeee omo

timesup234:
someone should get a gun and shooting this person. He is a fuckinggggggg slowpoke. Why dont you dispute all the facts i laid out? Why dont you start from there instead of insults. Cos you cant face the truth? Your ignorance will be punished

You are ignorant and something is wrong with you..Comparing America that is 200years ahead of Nigeria to us?Are you in your senses at all?A country that has 247 around the clock power,light,security who's state economy alone is bigger than the whole of Nigeria..Texas alone can buy the whole of Nigeria..Walmart alone can buy the whole of Nigeria with Buhari sef..Do you know how many Americans are in the list of the world's richest alone?Africa's richest Man Aliko with all his wealth no dey top 100 sef in the world...A country and its citizens that can buy you,your father,mother and your entire generations you dey claim nonesene..Infact you no get any sense at all...I no fit dey talk with an ode and opomu like you...Oloshi

someone should get a Gun and shoot the OP..He is a fuckinggggg idiot..

stanech:
Didn’t hear liberals asking for a truck ban after last week’s terror attack,yet they think stripping away our gun rights is the answer now.

Weere,You ran away last week..Senseless Gun violence has killed more people in the US than the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan..your friend ramu said a little sensible statement above.I dont know if that is so hard to do..You can ask for stricter entry into the US because this isnt 1877 but you cant ask for sensible gun control..Your fellow mad man trump said he will try and ban the diversity visa lottery just because one terrorist killed people..A terrorist that got radicalized in the US.But yet,he cant push a law banning automatic and semi automatic rifles on the street and he is there saying nonesense..This isnt rocket science..Rifles like that meant for War should not be in the hands of every dick,tom and harry..

Infact i should not be talking with you again because you are very very Mad...You have no sense at all..Ode omo..Oloshi..Nonesense

folakemigeh:
Femi has always been a chronic womanizer. He's fond of sleeping with Unilag girls and Osu girls whenever he's on location at Lagos and Ogun respectively.

The so-call girls also throw themselves at him..He is a Fine Boy,Celebrity,rich etc..I dont envy celebs one bit..Not at all.