| JAN. 21 “I wasn't a fan of
Iraq. I didn't want to go into Iraq.”
|
He was for an invasion before he was against it. |
| JAN. 21 “A reporter for
Time magazine — and I have been on their cover 14 or 15 times. I
think we have the all-time record in the history of Time magazine.”
|
Trump was on the cover 11 times
and Nixon appeared 55 times. |
| JAN. 23 “Between 3 million and 5 million
illegal votes caused me to lose the popular
vote.” |
There's no evidence of illegal voting. |
| JAN. 25 “Now, the audience was the biggest
ever. But this crowd was massive. Look how far back it goes. This crowd was
massive.” |
Official aerial photos show Obama's 2009
inauguration was much more heavily attended. |
| JAN. 25 “Take a look at the Pew reports which
show voter fraud. |
The report never mentioned voter fraud. |
| JAN. 25 “You had millions of people that now
aren't insured anymore.” |
The real number is less than 1 million, according to the
Urban Institute. |
| JAN. 25 “So, look, when President Obama was
there two weeks ago making a speech, very nice
speech. Two people were shot and killed during his speech. You can't have
that.” |
There were no gun homicide victims in
Chicago that day. |
| JAN. 26 “We've taken in tens of thousands of
people. We know nothing about them. They can say they vet them. They didn't
vet them. They have no papers. How can you vet somebody when you don't know
anything about them and you have no papers? How do you vet them? You can't.”
|
Immigrant Vetting lasts up to
two years. |
| JAN. 26 “I cut off hundreds of millions of
dollars off one particular plane, hundreds of
millions of dollars in a short period of time. It wasn't like I spent, like,
weeks, hours, less than hours, and many, many hundreds of millions of
dollars. And the plane's going to be better.” |
Most of the cuts were already planned. |
| JAN. 28 “The coverage about me in the @nytimes and the @washingtonpost
has been so false and angry that the Times actually apologized to its
dwindling subscribers and readers.” |
It never apologized. |
| JAN. 29 “The
Cuban-Americans, I got 84 percent of that vote.”
|
There is no support for this. |
| JAN. 30 “Only 109 people out of 325,000 were
detained and held for questioning. Big problems at airports were caused by
Delta computer outage.” |
At least 746 people were detained
and processed, and the Delta outage happened two days later. |
| FEB. 3 “Professional anarchists, thugs and
paid protesters are proving the point of the millions of people who voted to
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” |
There is no evidence of paid protesters. |
| FEB. 4 “After being forced to apologize for
its bad and inaccurate coverage of me after winning the election, the FAKE
NEWS @nytimes is still lost!” |
It never apologized. |
| FEB. 5 “We had 109 people out of hundreds of
thousands of travelers and all we did was
vet those people very, very carefully.”
|
About 60,000 people were affected. |
| FEB. 6 “I have already saved more than $700
million when I got involved in the negotiation on the
F-35.” |
Much of the price drop was projected before Trump took
office. |
| FEB. 6 “It's gotten to a point where it is
not even being reported. And in many cases, the very, very dishonest
press doesn't want to report it.” |
Terrorism has been reported on, often in detail. |
| FEB. 6 “The failing @nytimes
was forced to apologize to its subscribers for the poor reporting it did on
my election win. Now they are worse!” |
It didn't apologize. |
| FEB. 6 “And the previous administration
allowed it to happen because we shouldn't have been in Iraq, but we
shouldn't have gotten out the way we got out. It created a vacuum,
ISIS was formed.” |
ISIS’s origins date to 2004. |
| FEB. 7 “And yet the
murder rate in our country is the highest it’s been in 47 years,
right? Did you know that? Forty-seven years.” |
It was higher in the 1980s and '90s. |
| FEB. 7 “I saved more than $600 million. I got
involved in negotiation on a fighter jet, the F-35.”
|
The Defense Department projected this price drop before
Trump took office. |
| FEB. 9 “Chris Cuomo,
in his interview with Sen. Blumenthal, never
asked him about his long-term lie about his brave ‘service’ in Vietnam. FAKE
NEWS!” |
It was part of Cuomo's first question. |
| FEB. 9 Sen. Richard Blumenthal “now
misrepresents what Judge Gorsuch told him?”
|
The Gorsuch comments were later corroborated. |
| FEB. 10 “I don’t know about it. I haven’t
seen it. What report is that?” |
Trump knew about Flynn's
actions for weeks. |
| FEB. 12 “Just leaving Florida. Big crowds of
enthusiastic supporters lining the road that the FAKE
NEWS media refuses to mention. Very dishonest!” |
The media did cover it. |
| FEB. 16 “We got 306 because people came out
and voted like they've never seen before so that's the way it goes. I guess
it was the biggest Electoral College win since
Ronald Reagan.” |
George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama all won
bigger margins in the Electoral College. |
| FEB. 16 “That’s the other thing that was
wrong with the travel ban. You had Delta with a
massive problem with their computer system at the airports.” |
Delta's problems happened two days later. |
| FEB. 16 “Walmart announced it will create
10,000 jobs in the United States just this year
because of our various plans and initiatives.” |
The jobs are a result of its
investment plans announced in October 2016. |
| FEB. 16 “When WikiLeaks,
which I had nothing to do with, comes out and happens to give, they’re not
giving classified information.” |
Not always. They have released classified information in the
past. |
| FEB. 16 “We had a very smooth rollout of the
travel ban. But we had a bad court. Got a bad
decision.” |
The rollout was chaotic. |
| FEB. 16 “They’re giving stuff — what was said
at an office about Hillary cheating on the
debates. Which, by the way, nobody mentions.
Nobody mentions that Hillary received the questions to the debates.”
|
It was widely covered. |
| FEB. 18 “And there was no way to
vet those people. There was no documentation.
There was no nothing.” |
Refugees receive multiple
background checks, taking up to two years. |
| FEB. 18 “You look at what's happening in
Germany, you look at what's happening last night in Sweden. Sweden, who
would believe this?” |
Trump implied there was a terror
attack in Sweden, but there was no such attack. |
| FEB. 24 “By the way, you folks are in here —
this place is packed, there are lines that go back six blocks.” |
There was no evidence of long lines. |
| FEB. 24 “ICE
came and endorsed me.” |
Only its union did. |
| FEB. 24 “Obamacare covers very few people —
and remember, deduct from the number all of the people that had great health
care that they loved that was taken away from them — it was taken away from
them.” |
Obamacare increased coverage by
a net of about 20 million. |
| FEB. 27 “Since
Obamacare went into effect, nearly half of the
insurers are stopped and have stopped from participating in the
Obamacare exchanges.” |
Many fewer pulled out. |
| FEB. 27 “On one plane,
on a small order of one plane, I saved $725
million. And I would say I devoted about, if I added it up, all those calls,
probably about an hour. So I think that might be my highest and best use.”
|
Much of the price cut was already projected. |
| FEB. 28 “And now, based on our very strong
and frank discussions, they are beginning to do just that.” |
NATO countries agreed to meet
defense spending requirements in 2014. |
| FEB. 28 “The E.P.A.’s
regulators were putting people out of jobs by the hundreds of thousands.”
|
There's no evidence that the Waters of the United States
rule caused severe job losses. |
| FEB. 28 “We have begun to drain the swamp of
government corruption by imposing a five-year ban on
lobbying by executive branch officials.” |
They can't lobby their former agency but can still become
lobbyists. |
| MARCH 3 “It is so pathetic that the Dems have
still not approved my full Cabinet.” |
Paperwork for the last two candidates was still not
submitted to the Senate. |
| MARCH 4 “Terrible! Just found out that
Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just
before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!” |
There's no evidence of a wiretap. |
| MARCH 4 “How low has President Obama gone to
tap my phones during the very sacred election process. This is
Nixon/Watergate. Bad or sick guy!” |
There's no evidence of a wiretap. |
| MARCH 7 “122 vicious prisoners, released by
the Obama Administration from Gitmo, have
returned to the battlefield. Just another terrible decision!” |
113 of them were released by President George W. Bush. |
| MARCH 13 “I saved a lot of money on those
jets, didn't I? Did I do a good job? More than
$725 million on them.” |
Much of the cost cuts were planned before Trump. |
| MARCH 13 “First of all, it covers very few
people.” |
About 20 million people gained insurance under
Obamacare. |
| MARCH 15 “On the
airplanes, I saved $725 million. Probably took me a half an hour if
you added up all of the times.” |
Much of the cost cuts were planned before Trump. |
| MARCH 17 “I was in
Tennessee — I was just telling the folks — and half of the state has
no insurance company, and the other half is going to lose the
insurance company.” |
There's at least one insurer in every Tennessee county. |
| MARCH 20 “With just one negotiation on one
set of airplanes, I saved the taxpayers of our
country over $700 million.” |
Much of the cost cuts were planned before Trump. |
| MARCH 21 “To save taxpayer dollars, I’ve
already begun negotiating better contracts for the federal government —
saving over $700 million on just one set of airplanes
of which there are many sets.” |
Much of the cost cuts were planned before Trump. |
| MARCH 22 “I make the statement, everyone goes
crazy. The next day they have a massive riot, and death, and problems.”
|
Riots in Sweden broke out two
days later and there were no deaths. |
| MARCH 22 “NATO,
obsolete, because it doesn’t cover terrorism. They fixed that.” |
It has fought terrorism since the 1980s. |
| MARCH 22 “Well, now, if you take a look at
the votes, when I say that, I mean mostly they register wrong — in other
words, for the votes, they register incorrectly and/or illegally. And they
then vote. You have tremendous numbers of people.” |
There's no evidence of widespread
voter fraud. |
| MARCH 29 “Remember when the failing @nytimes apologized to its subscribers, right after
the election, because their coverage was so wrong. Now worse!” |
It didn't apologize. |
| MARCH 31 “We have a lot of
plants going up now in
Michigan that were never going to be there if I — if I didn’t win
this election, those plants would never even think about going back. They
were gone.” |
These investments were already planned. |
| APRIL 2 “And I was totally opposed to the
war in the Middle East which I think finally
has been proven, people tried very hard to say I wasn’t but you’ve seen that
it is now improving.” |
He was for an invasion before he was against it. |
| APRIL 2 “Now, my last tweet — you know, the
one that you are talking about, perhaps — was the one about being, in
quotes, wiretapped, meaning surveilled. Guess
what, it is turning out to be true.” |
There is still no evidence. |
| APRIL 5 “You have many states coming up where
they’re going to have no insurance company.
O.K.? It’s already happened in Tennessee. It’s
happening in Kentucky. Tennessee only has half coverage. Half the state is
gone. They left.” |
Every marketplace region in Tennessee had at least one
insurer. |
| APRIL 6 “If you look at the kind of
cost-cutting we’ve been able to achieve with the
military and at the same time ordering vast amounts of equipment —
saved hundreds of millions of dollars on airplanes,
and really billions, because if you take that out over a period of years
it’s many billions of dollars — I think we’ve had a tremendous success.”
|
Much of the price cuts were already projected. |
| APRIL 11 “I like Steve, but you have to
remember he was not involved in my campaign until very late. I had already
beaten all the senators and all the governors, and I didn’t know Steve.”
|
He knew Steve Bannon since
2011. |
| APRIL 12 “You can't do it faster, because
they're obstructing. They're obstructionists. So I have people — hundreds of
people that we're trying to get through. I mean you have — you see the
backlog. We can't get them through.” |
At this point, he had not nominated
anyone for hundreds of positions. |
| APRIL 12 “The New York
Times said the word wiretapped in the
headline of the first edition. Then they took it out of there fast when they
realized.” |
There were separate headlines for print and web, but neither
were altered. |
| APRIL 12 “The secretary general and I had a
productive discussion about what more NATO can do in the fight against
terrorism. I complained about that a long time ago and they made a change,
and now they do fight terrorism.” |
NATO has been engaged in
counterterrorism efforts since the 1980s. |
| APRIL 12 “Mosul
was supposed to last for a week and now they’ve been fighting it for many
months and so many more people died.” |
The campaign was expected to take months. |
| APRIL 16 “Someone should look into who paid
for the small organized rallies yesterday. The election is over!”
|
There's no evidence of paid protesters. |
| APRIL 18 “The fake media goes, ‘Donald Trump
changed his stance on
China.’ I haven’t changed my stance.” |
He did. |
| APRIL 21 “On 90 planes
I saved $725 million. It's actually a little bit more than that, but it's
$725 million.” |
Much of the price cuts were already projected. |
| APRIL 21 “When
WikiLeaks came out … never heard of WikiLeaks, never heard of it.”
|
He criticized it as early as 2010. |
| APRIL 27 “I want to help our miners while the
Democrats are blocking their healthcare.” |
The bill to extend health benefits
for certain coal miners was introduced by a
Democrat and was co-sponsored by mostly Democrats. |
| APRIL 28 “The trade
deficit with Mexico is close to $70 billion, even with Canada it’s
$17 billion trade deficit with Canada.” |
The U.S. had an $8.1 billion trade
surplus, not deficit, with Canada in
2016. |
| APRIL 28 “She's running against someone who's
going to raise your taxes to the sky, destroy your health care, and he's for
open borders — lots of crime.” |
Those are not Jon Ossoff's
positions. |
| APRIL 28 “The F-35
fighter jet program — it was way over budget. I’ve saved $725 million plus,
just by getting involved in the negotiation.” |
Much of the price cuts were planned before Trump. |
| APRIL 29 “They're incompetent, dishonest
people who after an election had to apologize because they covered it, us,
me, but all of us, they covered it so badly that they felt they were forced
to apologize because their predictions were so bad.” |
The Times did not apologize. |
| APRIL 29 “As you know, I've been a big critic
of China, and I've been talking about currency
manipulation for a long time. But I have to tell you that during the
election, number one, they stopped.” |
China stopped years ago. |
| APRIL 29 “I've already saved more than $725
million on a simple order of F-35 planes. I got
involved in the negotiation.” |
Much of the price cuts were planned before Trump. |
| APRIL 29 “We're also getting
NATO countries to finally step up and
contribute their fair share. They've begun to increase their contributions
by billions of dollars, but we are not going to be satisfied until everyone
pays what they owe.” |
The deal was struck in 2014. |
| APRIL 29 “When they talk about
currency manipulation, and I did say I would
call China, if they were, a currency manipulator, early in my tenure. And
then I get there. Number one, they — as soon as I got elected, they
stopped.” |
China stopped in 2014. |
| APRIL 29 “I was negotiating to reduce the
price of the big fighter jet contract, the F-35,
which was totally out of control. I will save billions and billions and
billions of dollars.” |
Most of the cuts were planned before Trump. |
| APRIL 29 “I think our side's been proven very
strongly. And everybody's talking about it.” |
There's still no evidence Trump's phones were tapped. |
| MAY 1 “Well, we are protecting pre-existing
conditions. And it'll be every good — bit as good on pre-existing conditions
as Obamacare.” |
The bill weakens protections
for people with pre-existing conditions. |
| MAY 1 “The F-35
fighter jet — I saved — I got involved in the negotiation. It's 2,500 jets.
I negotiated for 90 planes, lot 10. I got $725 million off the price.”
|
Much of the price cuts were planned before Trump. |
| MAY 1 “First of all, since I started running,
they haven't increased their — you know, they have not manipulated their
currency. I think that was out of respect to me
and the campaign.” |
China stopped years ago. |
| MAY 2 “I love buying those
planes at a reduced price. I have been really —
I have cut billions — I have to tell you this, and they can check, right,
Martha? I have cut billions and billions of dollars off plane contracts
sitting here.” |
Much of the cost cuts were planned before Trump. |
| MAY 4 “Number two, they’re actually not a
currency [manipulator]. You know, since I’ve
been talking about currency manipulation with respect to them and other
countries, they stopped.” |
China stopped years ago. |
| MAY 4 “We’re the highest-taxed nation in the world.” |
We're not. |
| MAY 4 “Nobody cares about my
tax return except for the reporters.”
|
Polls show most Americans do care. |
| MAY 8 “You know we’ve gotten billions of
dollars more in NATO than we’re getting. All
because of me.” |
The deal was struck in 2014. |
| MAY 8 “But when I did his show, which by the
way was very highly rated. It was high — highest rating. The highest
rating he’s ever had.” |
Colbert's “Late Show” debut had
nearly two million more viewers. |
| MAY 8 “Director Clapper reiterated what
everybody, including the fake media already knows — there is ‘no evidence’
of collusion with Russia and Trump.”
|
Clapper only said he wasn't
aware of an investigation. |
| MAY 12 “Again, the story that there was
collusion between the Russians & Trump campaign
was fabricated by Dems as an excuse for losing the election.” |
The F.B.I. was investigating
before the election. |
| MAY 12 “When James Clapper himself, and
virtually everyone else with knowledge of the witch hunt, says there is no
collusion, when does it end?” |
Clapper said he wouldn't have been told of an investigation
into collusion. |
| MAY 13 “I'm cutting the price of
airplanes with Lockheed.” |
The cost cuts were planned before he became president. |
| MAY 26 “Just arrived in Italy for the G7.
Trip has been very successful. We made and saved the USA many billions of
dollars and millions of
jobs.” |
He's referencing an arms deal that's not enacted and other
apparent deals that weren't announced on the trip. |
| JUNE 1 “China
will be allowed to build hundreds of additional coal
plants. So, we can’t build the plants, but they can, according to this
agreement. India will be allowed to double its coal production by 2020.”
|
The Paris
agreement doesn’t allow or disallow building
coal plants. |
| JUNE 1 “I’ve just returned from a trip
overseas where we concluded nearly $350 billion of military and economic
development for the United States, creating hundreds of thousands of
jobs.” |
Trump’s figures are inflated and premature. |
| JUNE 4 “At least 7 dead and 48 wounded in
terror attack and Mayor of
London says there is ‘no reason to be
alarmed!’” |
The mayor was specifically talking about the enlarged police
presence on the streets. |
| JUNE 5 “The Justice Dept. should have stayed
with the original Travel Ban, not the watered
down, politically correct version they submitted to S.C.” |
Trump signed this version of the travel ban, not the Justice
Department. |
| JUNE 21 “They all say it's 'nonbinding.' Like
hell it's nonbinding.” |
The Paris climate agreement is
nonbinding — and Trump said so in his speech announcing the withdrawal. |
| JUNE 21 “Right now, we are one of the
highest-taxed nations in the world.”
|
We're not. |
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