We all knew he was lying about the Reflecting Pool. The problem is that he lies so often that it’s almost impossible to keep up.
So I asked AI to compile claims from just the past twenty-four months and then checked them against official data, contemporaneous reporting and independent fact-checks.
Here is a partial list of 86 lies:
1. He promised to bring prices down “starting on Day One.” Grocery prices remained high and continued rising.
2. After winning, he admitted that prices are very hard to bring down once they have gone up.
3. He said egg prices had fallen 93 percent. They had not fallen remotely close to 93 percent.
4. He said he inherited the highest inflation in American history. He inherited an annual inflation rate of 2.9 percent.
5. When corrected, he changed the claim to the worst inflation in 49 years. That was also false. Annual inflation reached 23.7 percent in 1920.
6. He said there was virtually no inflation during his first term. Consumer prices rose approximately 8 percent.
7. He repeatedly claimed he had already brought inflation down, including during periods when the annual inflation rate was higher than the 2.9 percent reported shortly before he took office.
8. He told Congress inflation was “plummeting.” Prices were still rising overall, including major household expenses such as housing, electricity and medical care.
9. He claimed to have secured $18 trillion in new investment.
10. He then raised the figure to $19.2 trillion.
11. Even the White House’s own tracker listed far less, and its total included multiyear pledges, purchasing agreements, previously announced projects and commitments that might never become actual US investment.
12. He said America was building more factories than ever.
13. He said factory construction was rising.
14. He said the country had achieved its highest growth ever. Manufacturing employment declined, factory-construction claims depended on cherry-picked categories, and economic growth was nowhere near a historical record.
15. He called the country he inherited a dead country. The US economy grew 2.8 percent in 2024, faster than every other major wealthy economy except Spain.
16. He says foreign countries pay his tariffs. American importers pay them and frequently pass the cost on to American consumers.
17. He said the evidence overwhelmingly showed consumers did not pay his tariffs. Economic studies found that American consumers and businesses absorbed nearly all their cost.
18. He said tariff revenue came with “no inflation.” Prices continued rising, and economic research found that the tariffs themselves increased costs for American consumers and businesses.
19. He repeatedly said drug prices were down 70, 80 or 90 percent. No broad measure of prescription-drug prices showed anything close to those reductions.
20. He said Medicaid was “left the same.” The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the legislation would reduce federal Medicaid spending by roughly $930 billion over ten years.
21. He said Americans were “not going to feel any of it.” The Congressional Budget Office projected that the legislation would leave approximately 11.8 million more people uninsured.
22. He said the Medicaid changes touched only waste, fraud and abuse. Independent analyses found that the legislation reduced coverage and federal spending far beyond fraudulent claims.
23. He said he had eliminated taxes on Social Security. The law created a temporary deduction, unavailable to many beneficiaries, that expires after 2028. It did not abolish taxation of Social Security benefits.
24. He said taxes would rise 68 percent without his bill. No credible independent estimate came close to supporting that figure.
25. He then declared, “I’ve kept all my promises and much more.”
26. He publicly promised at least 53 times to end the Ukraine war within 24 hours, or even before taking office.
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The only reason @TheJusticeDept charged Olympian David Hearn was to sooth trump’s fragile ego.
The Justice Dept knew they were indicting an innocent person. This is unethical, radical, criminal behavior by @DAGToddBlanche and his thugs at the Department.
November is coming.
Rather than admit he screwed up by hiring an incompetent donor buddy to repair, clean, and repaint the Reflecting Pool, Trump attempted to destroy the life of an innocent man. By any objectable metric, this is something only a horrible human being would do.
Trump keeps posting that America was once the laughingstock of the world, but now that he is president, it's never been more respected.
As an Aussie, I can 100% confirm that Donald Trump is a laughingstock here.
Regardless of her dropping the charges, Jeanine Pirro should be charged with presenting false evidence to a grand jury, prosecutorial misconduct, and obstruction of justice for trying to convict an innocent man of causing damage to the Reflecting Pool. They knew he was innocent!
Jeanine Pirro may have dropped the charges, but that shouldn’t end the conversation.
If her office presented false or misleading evidence to a grand jury in a case that nearly imprisoned an innocent man, she should be referred to the bar and face an independent investigation.
It's not so much that they constantly lie, and they do, it's just so insulting to our collective intelligence. Not everyone is as dumb (and look at that... it's spelled with a b at the end!) as the MAGA cult. Show some damn respect to the American people, Doug.
The evidence is clear, vandals have repeatedly caused damage to the Reflecting Pool. Some of these acts were even caught on camera. We also provided the U.S. Attorney's office expert and eyewitness testimony to the damage done by vandals and provided every piece of evidence they asked for in the requested time line detailing each area of damage at the pool.
The Reflecting Pool is part of the Lincoln Memorial and dates back to 1922.
@POTUS cares deeply about protecting our sacred national monuments and his leadership has led the restoration of our Nation's Capital by Making D.C. Safe and Beautiful Again.
Intentional damage done to the Reflecting Pool is no different than defacing any one of our other national monuments.
We won't back down to deranged people who want to destroy, deface, or degrade our monuments.
The Justice Department has now dismissed the Reflecting Pool vandalism charges against Olympian David Hearn.
Because every word out of Jeanine Pirro’s mouth at this moment was a lie.
Hey there Rand. This you and your wife?: Rand Paul's wife bought shares in Covid treatment maker Gilead in early days of virus, the couple's only individual stock purchase. Gee whiz, it's almost like you had a vested interest in diverting actual scientific preventions for people
BREAKING: The Justice Department moved to dismiss the Reflecting Pool vandalism charge against Olympian David Hearn, citing "flawed installation" work by a contractor. https://t.co/SzRzqPXlSy
Is that right? You want to prosecute a man for trying to save lives and not prosecute an adjudicated rapist pedophile? You and your fellow Trump sycophants have lost the plot and the American people with your stupidity
Guilty of what, pray tell? While Trump and his bootlickers, you are one of them, politicized a pandemic, Fauci was trying to save lives. Also, if you're looking for someone who is guilty as hell, look no further than the ass you dutifully kiss every day
As a lawyer and former attorney general of my state, I can tell you that when you get immunity—you can’t invoke the Fifth.
Fauci came in and invoked the Fifth because he is guilty as all get out
I look forward to voting YES to hold Fauci in contempt next week.
🚨BREAKING: Senator Josh Hawley says “innocent people don’t plead the Fifth” when describing Dr. Fauci’s testimony.
Here’s the video of Donald Trump pleading the Fifth 400 times during his civil fraud trial.
Anthony Fauci is a sick man; it’s disgusting what he did to our country.
States need to investigate him.
I look forward to voting YES to hold him in contempt next week