The Post's Fact Checker database has been updated with President Trump's weekend remarks. He has surpassed 10,000 false claims during his presidency.
By Glenn Kessler , Glenn Kessler The Fact Checker Email Bio Follow Salvador Rizzo and Salvador Rizzo Reporter for The Fact Checker Email Bio Follow Meg Kelly Meg Kelly Video editor for The Fact Checker Email Bio Follow April 29 at 3:00 AM It took President Trump 601 days to top 5,000 false and misleading claims in The Fact Checker’s database, an average of eight claims a day.
As of April 27, including the president’s rally in Green Bay, Wis., the tally in our database stands at 10,111 claims in 828 days. About one-fifth of the president’s claims are about immigration issues, a percentage that has grown since the government shutdown over funding for his promised border wall. In fact, his most repeated claim — 160 times — is that his border wall is being built. Congress balked at funding the concrete wall he envisioned, and so he has tried to pitch bollard fencing and repairs of existing barriers as “a wall.
— He exaggerated the size of trade deficits with Japan, China and the European Union and falsely claimed the United States loses money from such deficits.— He continued his practice of inflating the jobs created under his administration by starting the count from the election, not his inauguration. — He took credit for funding a program — the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative — his administration tried to eliminate.
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