Detailed
Catalog of Trump's Falsehoods
By Julia Conley, staff writer
for Common
Dreams
To watch this video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhmMFfkh2tk
A new video produced by the Washington Post asserts
that President Donald Trump has mislead or blatantly lied to the public more
than 1,000 times since taking office in January.
The newspaper counted a total of 1,057 lies, with
the president averaging nearly five falsehoods per day since his inauguration.
The video catalogues just a few of President Donald Trump's most
frequent lies about his influence on the economy, the negative impact of the
Obama administration, and his ongoing battle with the news media.
Trump's lies frequently involve the promotion of his status as a
"deal-maker."
As the Post notes, he has repeatedly taken credit
for cutting the cost of the F-35 fighter jet, an increase in defense spending
by NATO member countries, and Ford's decision to build a plant in Michigan
instead of Mexico—though the president had nothing to do with any of these
developments.
The video also shows that Trump's supporters are so familiar
with his frequent characterization of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) as a
"disaster" that many are able to finish his sentences about the law.
The ACA has actually been deemed stable by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, and following the passage of the law the uninsured rate dropped to a historic low of nine percent.
