Tag: Donald Trump’s Lies
Trump’s Biggest Healthcare Lie
“Since he began running for president, Donald Trump has been lying about health care in general, and protections for patients with preexisting conditions in particular. Trump’s long-standing lie is that he has a plan to help people with preexisting conditions afford insurance, or will shortly unveil such a plan. His most recent version of this lie goes even farther. Trump is now saying that he actually created the protection for preexisting conditions, and that Democrats are trying to take it away. … This is the literal polar opposite of reality.”
— Jonathan Chait
Biden Won’t Give Trump Benefit of the Doubt on Soleimani Assassination
“I don’t give him the benefit of the doubt because he’s lied so much about virtually everything.”
— Joe Biden, in an interview with NBC News, on giving President Trump the benefit of the doubt of justification for assassinating an Iranian general.
Trump Wins ‘Lie of the Year’
President Trump’s claim that the Ukraine whistleblower was “almost completely wrong” is the “Lie of the Year.”
— Politifact
Trump’s Lies Top 15,000
15,413
In case you’ve lost count, President Trump has now made 15,413 false or misleading claims over his 1,055 days in office, according to the Washington Post. That’s an average of nearly 15 every single day.
Orwell Nailed It
“For quite long periods, at any rate, people can remain undisturbed by obvious lies, either because they simply forget what is said from day to day or because they are under such a constant propaganda bombardment that they become anaesthetized to the whole business.”
— George Orwell, writing in “As I Please” in 1944.
Mister Misdirection
Despite the facts, Trump keeps pushin’
The notion it was Ukrainians, not Russians
Who backed his play
And won the day,
When in fact, he owes it all to Vladimir Putin.