Trump Told Lies, Today

Trump Told Lies, Today

(Does Trump ever take the day off, and not tell lies ?)

"He believes that reality itself can be denied and that big lies can sow enough confusion to keep the truth from taking hold."
- E.J. Dionne

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Trump's last press conference

525.9 days since Donald Trump held a press conference

Feb 16, 2017

https://www.washingtonpost.com/apps/g/page/politics/trumps-last-press-conference/2140/



February 16, 2017


Trump Ends the Presidential Press Conference As We Know It


http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence...sidential-press-conference-as-we-know-it.html

There is no conferring, during a Trump media blitz

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-conference-annotated/?utm_term=.0acff5a3192e


February 16, 2018

It’s the One-Year Anniversary of Trump’s First and Only Press Conference

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence...iversary-of-trumps-only-press-conference.html

July 27, 2018 1

Why Does Trump Keep Lying About His Dealings With Russia?

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence...-trump-tower-russian-meeting-keeps-lying.html

Lying is his default position.

can we make this thread a sticky?

Trump claimed that he won a majority of women voters in 2016. He did not.

https://qz.com/833003/election-2016...whelmingly-for-clinton-except-the-white-ones/


Trump says U.S. Steel is opening up seven new plants — but it's not.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/busin...teel-expansion-fact-check-20180628-story.html

2018/07/30

Trump’s Sunday tweets included the lies that have become a standard part of his attacks on the special counsel investigation

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...-very-clear-He-hates-Robert-Mueller#read-more


https://www.motherjones.com/politic...mp-trying-to-fire-special-prosecutor-mueller/

In a tweet on Sunday morning, Trump lied.

"...literally did not happen."

https://www.wonkette.com/trump-tweets

The once-secret session provides a fascinating look at Trump’s capacity to feign charm and receptiveness to criticism in private and then return to a war footing not long after.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/trump-vs-the-times-inside-an-off-the-record-meeting

July 29, 2018

Trump violated their off-the-record agreement by not only tweeting about the meeting more than a week later, but also mis-characterizing what they talked about.

"...what Trump ultimately reconsidered instead, nine days later, was why he hadn’t taken advantage of his meeting with “the enemy” sooner."


http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence...mits-failed-attempt-to-reason-with-trump.html

"Only negative stories from the fakers back there,” (Orange tRump) declared.

With each denunciation, the crowd jeered and screamed at the press in the holding pen.

The inflammatory performance came just hours after White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders refused to distance herself from Trump’s previous assertions that the media is the “enemy” of the American people. Pressed during a White House briefing on the issue, Sanders said Trump “has made his position known.”


https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/8/2/1785495/-PA-speech-More-Trump-More-Lies

Now, we know why Sarah Huckabee Sanders stubbornly refused to cave in to sanity. She gave Orange tRump what he wanted.

SHS is there at the WH podium to announce what Orange tRump has said. Not what she can see with her own eyes.

On the Other Side of Alice in Wonderland's Looking Glass, all truthful, fact based, evidence based media contradicts the Looking Glass World.


Ivanka was very careful to leave her answers open to re-definition.



Donald J. Trump
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@realDonaldTrump
They asked my daughter Ivanka whether or not the media is the enemy of the people. She correctly said no. It is the FAKE NEWS, which is a large percentage of the media, that is the enemy of the people!

4:24 PM - Aug 2, 2018


The Looking Glass favorite, FOX TV gives Orange tRump what he wants

Randi Rhodes
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@RandiRhodes

Tonight at a rally in #WilkesBarre Trump spent the first 10 minutes bragging about his election two years ago (2016) and saying that Putin wanted Hillary to win.

Tomthunkit™
@TomthunkitsMind

Ironclad proof that the White House altered the Helsinki press conference video & transcript

This is purposeful disinformation from POTUS that is indistinguishable from how autocratic regimes wield information as a weapon against their own populace. Sick

9:57 PM · Aug 2, 2018

Kelly O'Donnell
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@KellyO
Tonight’s takeaway: Hours after his top intelligence chiefs united in their alarm about ongoing Russian election interference, @realDonaldTrump said the “Russian hoax” is “hindering “ the US relationship with Russia at his PA rally.

9:33 PM - Aug 2, 2018


This week featured a blow-up between CNN's Jim Acosta and Sarah Huckabee Sanders over Trump's "enemy of the people" attacks on the press.


White House "Strategic Communications" Director Mercedes Schlapp doubled down on Trump's campaign rally rhetoric, by calling the CNN reporter ( Jim Acosta) "dangerous."


https://crooksandliars.com/2018/08/wh-comms-advisor-tells-fox-news-jim-acosta

Well, to be fair to whoever is White House spokesperson, they aren't there to give their own views. They are, in fact, the spokesperson for the White House and, ultimately, the president. When they are at the podium in a White House briefing, they aren't there to give their own views on anything.

It seems Trump lies every day.

dplady said:

It seems Trump lies every day.

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Multiple times. Per minute.

Trump lies constantly, but he's never developed any skill at it. He lies like an intellectually-lazy four-year old.

Trump Fail/Trump Weak

https://www.nj.com/politics/index.s...responded_to_the_1st_anniversary_of_char.html


Selfish Trump


https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...faa-secret-service-us-president-a7886596.html

Senator Bob Menendez
@SenatorMenendez
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We’ll never forget the events in Charlottesville & the values Heather Heyer died for. Nor will we forget that when a nation in pain needed healing, Pres. Trump rubbed salt in our wounds by refusing to immediately denounce those marching under the ugly banner of white nationalism


11:13 AM · Aug 11, 2018
Nate Lerner
@NathanLerner

Trump is having supporters sign up for "Real News Updates" on their phones

This is a blatant effort to create a communication network that can immediately undermine the wave of criminal accusations Mueller is about to bring against Trump


2:07 PM · Aug 11, 2018




August 11, 2018

Yesterday, King tweeted, “Space Force: I keep thinking of one of those old Saturday morning shows with puppets n shit. Retweet ONLY if you think this is possibly the dumbest idea out of Trump’s admittedly dumb head so far.”

The responses were overwhelming.



Stephen King
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@StephenKing

Space Force: I keep thinking of one of those old Saturday morning shows with puppets n shit. Retweet ONLY if you think this is possibly the dumbest idea out of Trump's admittedly dumb head so far.

9:54 PM - Aug 10, 2018



US Army Resistance
@bobover52
Space please keep them out there.

10:00 PM - Aug 10, 2018

US Army Resistance Retweeted

tRump dragged President Obama into it




But President Obama was talking about Trump’s claim that he’s going to “bring back jobs,” and Obama didn’t even refer to Trump by name.

Original quote


When somebody says, like the person you just mentioned who I’m not gonna advertise for, that he’s gonna bring all these jobs back. Well, how exactly are you gonna do that, what are you gonna do? There’s no answer to it — he just says, I’m gonna, I’m gonna negotiate a better deal. How exactly are you going to negotiate that? What magic wand do you have? And usually the answer is … he doesn’t have an answer.

-President Obama

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Hear the original quote-Obama: Some jobs 'are just not going to come back


on youtube PBS NewsHour

tRump's Clown Show on twitter


Donald J. Trump
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@realDonaldTrump

“President Trump would need a magic wand to get to 4% GDP,” stated President Obama. I guess I have a magic wand, 4.2%, and we will do MUCH better than this! We have just begun


10:42 AM - Sep 10, 2018



Oh, and by the way — tRump was also lying about his GDP claim, of course


Serge Kovaleski
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@sergenyt

Trump's own economist sets the record straight after Trump makes another false claim about the economy under his administration.

Top White House economist says Trump's GDP and unemployment claim was wrong - ABC News


3:39 PM - Sep 10, 2018


Top White House economist fact-checks Trump on GDP claim


White House economist Kevin Hassett fact-checked a seemingly extraordinary claim about the country's GDP growth rate overtaking the unemployment rate for the first time in more than 100 years.
abcnews.go.com


Trump Falsely Claims G.D.P. Growth Is Higher Than Unemployment ...

NYT Fact Check of the Day

The New York Times › politics › trump-

2 days ago · A version of this article appears in print on Sept. 10, 2018


Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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Sep 10
The GDP Rate (4.2%) is higher than the Unemployment Rate (3.9%) for the first time in over 100 years

7:03 AM · Sep 10, 2018


2:51 p.m. ET, September 10, 2018
Trump adviser concedes GDP tweet was false
Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Kevin Hassett suggested that blamed "somebody" for "adding a zero" in economic numbers that made their way to President Trump, who incorrectly claimed in a tweet this morning that the GDP rate is higher than the unemployment rate for the fist time in 100 years.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/politics/li...09-10-18/index.html?__twitter_impression=true


Trump got it wrong — way wrong — when he said it hasn't happened in a century.


In the last 70 years, it's happened in at least 62 quarters, most recently in 2006.


tRump- Bloviate, Boast, and Bullshit

Trump likes to have a friendly audience when he tells his lies. He doesn't like for fact-checkers to be in the room when he's lying.

At his one and only press conference, Trump claimed that he "inherited a mess" from President Obama.

This, of course, was a huge lie.


"As you know, our administration inherited many problems across government and across the economy," he told the assembled reporters. "To be honest, I inherited a mess. It's a mess. At home and abroad, a mess”

Okay, let’s take a look at the “mess” that Donald Trump inherited from Barack Obama.

When Donald Trump was sworn into office, he inherited a nation where the unemployment rate was down to 4.7 percent.

In addition to inheriting a nation with a low unemployment rate, Trump also inherited a nation where gas prices are down, real estate values are up, veteran homelessness has been cut in half and the number of American living in poverty is down. We’ve had seventy-five consecutive months of job growth; rising stock prices, low inflation and a record spike in middle-class incomes.

And all of these economic advances were made while reducing the federal deficit from 9.8 percent of GDP in 2009 to 3.2 percent in 2016.

Okay, so that’s the “mess” that Donald inherited at home. Let’s take a look at the “mess” he inherited abroad.

President Obama used diplomacy, new policies and responsible leadership and reversed the sharp decline in world opinion toward the U.S. that was created during the Bush years. Favorable opinion toward the United States rose during Obama’s first term in ten of fifteen countries surveyed by the Pew Global Attitudes Project, with an average increase of 26 percent, and have stayed high ever since.

President Obama had initiated the biannual Nuclear Security Summit to address the global threat posed by nuclear terrorism and advance a common approach to strengthening nuclear security. As a result, weapons-usable highly enriched uranium has been removed from sixteen countries. Also, President Obama forced an agreement on Syrian leader Bashar Assad, which forced Assad to destroy Syria’s stockpile of chemical weapons. In 2016, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons confirmed the destruction of thousands of tons of mustard gas and other toxic chemicals.

Oh, and lest I forget, President Obama located the elusive terrorist mastermind, Osama bin laden, sent a Special Forces team to attack his secret compound in Pakistan, and the raid was a great success. Osama bin Laden was killed and a treasure trove of al-Qaeda documents was obtained by the U.S. government in the raid.

So, that’s the “mess” that Donald Trump inherited abroad.

John Tyler inherited a mess when he was sworn into office back in 1841. Franklin D Roosevelt inherited a mess when he was sworn into office back in 1933. Barack Obama inherited a mess when he was sworn into office back in 2009!

However, Donald Trump inherited a nation with a growing economy, low inflation, low unemployment and international respect!

Men like Tyler, Roosevelt and Obama would have been THRILLED to inherit the kind of “mess” that Trump inherited!

Today Trump is once again spouting FAKE NEWS in regard to the death toll in Puerto Rico with hurricane Maria. He claims 2975 people did not die but his enemies are trying to make him look bad.


Trump is incompetent. Impeach 45 NOW.

he's a disgrace


but, yanno, manafort is such a gooooooooooooood guy! witch hunt!

manafort pleads guilty to all that came before and is actively assisting the government agencies in all the breadth of their investigations

Despite scientific evidence, Orange tRump lied about Elizabeth Warren, today.

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"He’s Comey’s best friend. And I could give you 100 pictures of him and Comey hugging and kissing each other.”

-Orange tRump

Trump made the unusual claim on Sept. 5 during an interview with the Daily Caller

October 23, 2018

After BuzzFeed News made a records request for any such pictures with the FBI last month, we finally got an answer Tuesday: The FBI said they had no pictures of Mueller and Comey embracing each other. None.

“Based on the information you provided, we conducted a search of the locations or entities where records responsive to your request would reasonably be found,” an FBI official wrote. “We were unable to locate records responsive to your request. Therefore, your request is being administratively closed.”


https://www.buzzfeednews.com/articl...y-robert-mueller-hugging-kissing-donald-trump

Up to 5,000 documented lies as of yesterday.

Wonder if that beats the records of some of the Trumpettes posting to the GB.

Finland’s president, Sauli Niinistö, emphasized that he had said no such thing to Trump. Niinistö told the Finnish newspaper Ilta-Sanomat that he did speak with Trump about wildfires while the two were in Paris to observe Armistice Day, but Trump must have misunderstood what he said.

“I told him that Finland is a land covered by forests, but we also have a good control system and network,” Niinistö told the newspaper. Asked by a reporter about Trump’s raking comment, the Finnish president laughed.


https://splinternews.com/finland-s-president-calls-bullshit-on-trump-s-raking-th-1830526112

The people of Finland respond

November 18, 2018

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/articl...nd-rakes-forest-camp-fire-paradise-california

November 19, 2018

Why did Trump’s lies fail so badly? Important new data provides a clue

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amph..._term=.714354d9b093&__twitter_impression=true

Glenn Kessler
Glenn Kessler
@GlennKesslerWP
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10h
This is worth your time.

@rizzoTK methodically compared Trump's estimates of the crowd size at his rallies with the local news and police estimates. The differences are, shall we say, striking

Analysis | President Trump’s crowd-size estimates: Increasingly unbelievable
washingtonpost.com


9:43 AM · Nov 19, 2018

November 19, 2018

Trump claimed 50,000 people were outside a rally in Houston because they couldn’t get in, but the city’s police chief said the number was much lower: 3,000. In Cleveland, Trump claimed “thousands” of people were outside because the venue was packed. But Twitter users at the event posted evidence that Trump didn’t fill the venue and that only a handful of people were milling around in the parking lot.

In Tampa, Trump claimed thousands of people who couldn’t get in were watching outside on a “tremendous movie screen” — that didn’t exist.
(read article-reseacher did a thorough search)


These claims deserve Four Pinocchios. Or, if you prefer to use Trump’s math, “thousands and thousands” of Pinocchios.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...easingly-unbelievable/?utm_term=.a2a255b17089


gsgs comment- it does not take many people to fill enough space, to give a false impression on camera. Crop the picture frame, until it seems crowded.

Some people couldn’t resist reusing an internet meme to drag Trump further about the raking, twisting the popular image of the US president with a small child mowing the White House lawn.

When You Finish Here

Go Rake CALIFORNIA

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/19/make-america-rake-again-finland-trump-forest-fire

Tigersman said:

Today Trump is once again spouting FAKE NEWS in regard to the death toll in Puerto Rico with hurricane Maria. He claims 2975 people did not die but his enemies are trying to make him look bad.


Trump is incompetent. Impeach 45 NOW.

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Unfortunately, incompetence is not an impeachable offense.