Trump lied over 2,000 times in his first year

Trump’s first year in office is over today – only three to go! – and The Washington Post’s fact checkers have tallied up all the falsehoods and distortions he’s uttered in that time. The total?

One year after taking the oath of office, President Trump has made 2,140 false or misleading claims, according to The Fact Checker’s database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement uttered by the president. That’s an average of nearly 5.9 claims a day.

We started this project as part of our coverage of the president’s first 100 days, largely because we could not possibly keep up with the pace and volume of the president’s misstatements. Readers demanded we keep it going for another year. The database has proved so useful — and even sparked the interest of academicians — that we now plan to keep it going for the rest of Trump’s presidency.

Very ambitious of them.

By our count, there were only 56 days — or about 15 percent of the time — on which we recorded no claims. These were often days when the president golfed.

Essentially the only time Trump isn’t lying is when there’s no-one around to lie to. Dishonesty in politicians is nothing new, but Trump has taken the art of bullshit and raised it to something almost mythical. All presidents lie, but never before has a president lied so frequently (almost six times a day on average), so consistently, about so many things, and with such little apparent regard for whether people believe him. And never before has a president faced so few, if any, consequences because of it.

The fact that this walking sack of bullshit is still president and that some people inexplicably still listen to him without rolling their eyes at every other word is by itself enough to refute the notion that karma exists, because in any just universe he would have been thrown off the Truman Balcony by an angry mob long ago.

(via @KFILE)