Trump Has Told Over 20,000 Lies While In Office. So Far.

“It took President Trump 827 days to top 10,000 false and misleading claims in The Fact Checker’s database, an average of 12 claims a day.

But on July 9, just 440 days later, the president crossed the 20,000 mark — an average of 23 claims a day over a 14-month period, which included the events leading up to Trump’s impeachment trial, the worldwide pandemic that crashed the economy and the eruption of protests over the death of George Floyd in police custody.”

— “President Trump has made more than 20,000 false or misleading claims,” Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo, and Meg Kelly, Washington Post

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Dissembler-in-Chief

To general amazement, President Donald J. Trump addressed a joint session of Congress in a normal tone of voice last night. To no one’s surprise, however, he continued to base his dubious policies on alternative facts.

More:

“Fact-checking President Trump’s address to Congress,” Glenn Kessler and Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post

“When you fact-check Donald Trump’s latest speech, you find that even the technically true parts aren’t really true,” Holly Baxter, The Independent

“Fact Check: Trump’s First Address to Congress,” New York Times

“Fact-checking Donald Trump’s first presidential address to Congress,” Alan Yuhas, The Guardian

“Fact-checkers had a field day with President Trump’s address to Congress,” Peter Weber, The Week

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Alternative Facts

On the first full day of the Trump Administration, we were met with the odd spectacle of a White House Press Secretary who did not take questions from the  White House press corps, but instead made claims that were demonstrably untrue.

On Day 2, Counselor the President Kellyanne Conway explained that these were not lies, they were “alternative facts“: