President Donald Trump is now on track to exceed 2,000 false or misleading claims he has made during his first year in office, The Washington Post reports citing a database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement uttered by the president. As of Monday, the total stood at 1,950 claims in 347 days, or an average of 5.6 claims a day.
The Post has also counted Trump’s repeated claims. According to their data, there are more than 60 claims that Trump has repeated three or more times.
Even Trump’s recent interview with the New York Times was full of false or misleading claims, at least 24. The newspaper reported that it had a tie for Trump’s most repeated claims, both made 61 times and both date from the beginning of his presidency. One of those claims was variation of the statement that the Affordable Care Act is dying and essentially dead. Trump has quieted down after his efforts to repeal ObamaCare flopped.
Furthermore, Trump has touted 61 times that he secured business investments and job announcements that had been previously announced. Two of Trump’s favorite talking points about taxes rapidly moved up the list. Those claims are that the tax plan will be the biggest tax cut in the history of the United States and that the U.S. is one of the highest-taxed nations.
During his campaign, Trump told his supporters that the unemployment rate was really 42 percent, but now, on 46 occasions he hailed the lowest unemployment rate in 17 years. The Post reports that the rate was already low when he was elected.
Trump celebrated the rise in the stock market 85 times, even though before entering the White House, he repeatedly said it was a bubble ready to crash as soon as the Federal Reserve started raising interest rates. The Federal Reserve has raised rates three times since the election and the stock market has not plunged.
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