Tag: Trump lies

A Time magazine with Trump on the cover hangs in his golf clubs. It’s fake.

The following article by David A. Fahrenthold was posted on the Washington Post website June 27, 2017:

This article has been updated.

The framed copy of Time magazine was hung up in at least five of President Trump’s clubs, from South Florida to Scotland. Filling the entire cover was a photo of Donald Trump.

“Donald Trump: The ‘Apprentice’ is a television smash!” the big headline said. Above the Time nameplate, there was another headline in all caps: “TRUMP IS HITTING ON ALL FRONTS . . . EVEN TV!”

This cover — dated March 1, 2009 — looks like an impressive memento from Trump’s pre-presidential career. To club members eating lunch, or golfers waiting for a pro-shop purchase, it seemed to be a signal that Trump had always been a man who mattered. Even when he was just a reality TV star, Trump was the kind of star who got a cover story in Time.

But that wasn’t true. Continue reading “A Time magazine with Trump on the cover hangs in his golf clubs. It’s fake.”

Trump’s claim about the ‘catastrophe’ of Obamacare premiums increasing 204 percent in Alaska

The following article by Michelle Ye Hee Lee was posted on the Washington Post website June 23, 2017:

“In Alaska, they’ve gone up 207 percent on Obamacare. You know, I used to mention only Arizona because they were up 116 percent in Arizona. Now Arizona is like good by comparison to some of the numbers. But they’re way up in Arizona, also.”
— President Trump, remarks at lunch with members of Congress, June 13

“Okay, so I have been saying all hundred and 116 percent for so long. That was Arizona. That was — so yesterday I have a new number — 204 percent in Alaska increase. It is a catastrophe.”
— Trump, remarks at Faith and Freedom Coalition’s conference, June 8

President Trump likes to talk about premium increases under the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. As Trump says, he used to point out Arizona as the extreme example of premium increases. But he is now using Alaska as a new example, where premiums soared more than 200 percent. Is that really the case?

Continue reading “Trump’s claim about the ‘catastrophe’ of Obamacare premiums increasing 204 percent in Alaska”

Video: Trump’s flip-flops on remarks in his 2015 campaign announcement speech

The following article by Meg Kelly was posted on the Washington Post website June 16, 2017:

Two years ago, Donald Trump rode down the escalator at the Trump Tower and launched a presidential campaign that changed history. (Here’s our fact check of his announcement speech, in which we described Trump as “a fact checker’s dream — and nightmare.”)

In this Fact Checker video, we rewind the tape and look at what he said then — and what’s changed now, including:

• the unemployment rate (he called it “nonsense” on the campaign trail; now he touts it as legitimate);
• China currency devaluation (he no longer blames them for devaluing their currency, which was false to begin with);
• and immigration (he promised to end Obama’s executive order granting deferred action to children of undocumented immigrants, which he now says he won’t do).

 

View the pos here.

President Trump’s misleading claims about new mines and ‘clean coal’

The following article by Michelle Ye Hee Lee was posted on the Washington Post website June 9, 2017:

Fact Checkers Glenn Kessler and Michelle Lee examine several of President Trump’s claims from his speech announcing the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris climate accord on Thursday. (Video: Meg Kelly/Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

“The bottom line is that the Paris accord is very unfair at the highest level to the United States. Further, while the current agreement effectively blocks the development of clean coal in America, which it does. And the mines are starting to open up, having a big opening in two weeks, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, so many places. A big opening of a brand, new mine. It’s unheard of. For many, many years that hasn’t happened.”
— President Trump, speech announcing U.S. withdrawal from the Paris climate-change agreement, June 1

“Next week we’re opening a big coal mine. You know about that. One in Pennsylvania. It’s actually a new mine. That hadn’t happened in a long time, folks. But we’re putting the people and we’re putting the miners back to work.”
–Trump, remarks in Cincinnati, June 7 Continue reading “President Trump’s misleading claims about new mines and ‘clean coal’”

Opinion vs. Fact

The following was posted on the TrumpAccountable.org website May 1, 2017:

In an interview posted today with CBS anchor John Dickerson, President Trump asserted again that President Obama ordered surveillance of Trump Tower before the election. Dickerson was asking about Trump’s relationship with Obama and Trump himself brought the unsubstantiated wiretapping claims up unprompted.

Here are the two most revealing and telling quotes from the conversation: Continue reading “Opinion vs. Fact”

When President Trump takes credit and assigns blame

The following article by Calvin Woodward and Jim Drinkard of the Associated Press was posted on the Boston Globe website April 22, 2017:

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WASHINGTON — One of the most consistent features of President Trump’s public statements is his tendency to take credit and assign blame. It has consistently puts him at odds with historical facts, and has been on display as he approaches his 100th day in office on April 29.

Over the past week, the president claimed unprecedented achievement as he tried to shape perceptions of his 100-day legacy. He then played down that benchmark as time ran short for him to get big things done. Continue reading “When President Trump takes credit and assigns blame”

Donald Trump flubs how unemployment is calculated

The following article by Louis Jacobson was posted on the Politifact website April 4, 2017:

“When you look for a job, you can’t find it and you give up. You are now considered statistically employed.”

— Donald Trump on Tuesday, April 4th, 2017 in a CEO town hall

At a town hall with CEOs, President Donald Trump revived some of his longstanding concerns about how the nation’s unemployment statistics are calculated.

Appearing to reference the number of Americans out of work, Trump said, “We have 100 million people if you look. You know, the real number’s not 4.6 percent (for the unemployment rate). They told me I had 4.6 percent last month. I’m doing great. I said yeah, but what about the hundred million people? A lot of those people came out and voted for me. I call them the forgotten man, the forgotten woman. But a lot of those people — a good percentage of them would like to have jobs and they don’t. You know, one of the statistics that, to me, is just ridiculous — so, the 4.6 sounds good. But when you look for a job, you can’t find it and you give up. You are now considered statistically employed. But I don’t consider those people employed.” Continue reading “Donald Trump flubs how unemployment is calculated”

Trump keeps blaming Obama. Fresh polls show voters don’t buy it.

The following article by James Hohmann with Breanne Deppisch  was posted on the Washington Post website April 5, 2017:

Barack Obama and Donald Trump arrive for the inauguration ceremony in January. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP/Pool)

THE BIG IDEA: For Donald Trump, the buck stops … with Barack Obama.

As the Western world processed stomach-churning images of dead children, apparently murdered by chemical weapons, the president couldn’t help but take a potshot at his predecessor. “These heinous actions by the Bashar al-Assad regime are a consequence of the past administration’s weakness and irresolution,” Trump said in a statement yesterday afternoon. “President Obama said in 2012 that he would establish a ‘red line’ against the use of chemical weapons and then did nothing. The United States stands with our allies across the globe to condemn this intolerable attack.” Continue reading “Trump keeps blaming Obama. Fresh polls show voters don’t buy it.”