Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump
Only the Fake News Media and Trump enemies want me to stop using Social Media (110 million people). Only way for me to get the truth out!
Really? This is laughable.
Donald Trump’s inability to tell the truth is on record. Never in the history of this nation has a president-elect and president uttered the quantity of falsehoods as Donald Trump has.
I find it odd that he refers to CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times and The Washington Post as “fake news”, yet Fox, a major news outlet, is not included. What’s up with that?
As recently as July 15 of this year, Shepard Smith, a relative moderate in the Fox ranks who has decried Trump camp untruths before, described White House “deception” as “mind-boggling”.
Smith broke with network orthodoxy issuing a sharp denunciation of the Trump administration’s handling of investigations into its links with Russia.
“Why all these lies?” he asked fellow anchor Chris Wallace. “Why is it lie after lie after lie?”
What does this tell you about Trump’s credibility when a respected anchor on Trump’s favorite news network calls him out?
Here are a few Trump tweets and their corresponding rating on the fact meter courtesy of Politifact:
“No administration has accomplished more in the first 90 days.”
FDR and others did more
That’s not how NATO works
Donald Trump
Says “the New York Times wrote about” Barack Obama wiretapping Donald Trump during the election.
The ‘failing’ New York Times
Bowling Green massacre part two?
“The murder rate in our country is the highest it’s been in 47 years.”
This is wrong
More like 60,000+
“We had a massive landslide victory, as you know, in the Electoral College.”
Historically, it’s in the bottom quarter
That’s not what it said
Read his New York Times interview
The media “never show crowds.”
We’ve seen the crowds. Thanks, media!
His evidence is faulty
Thin rebuttals
Despite repetition, still not true
“I did not support the war in Iraq … The record shows that I’m right.”
For the nth time…
Donald Trump
He didn’t object when asked about it, twice
A repeated falsehood
No part of Clinton’s plan backs up muddled talking point
These are international students here legally getting advanced college degrees
Donald Trump
Wrong on several levels
He now says he didn’t see such a video
July 3, 2017
CNN’s ratings are “way down.”
— Donald Trump
July 25, 2017
Problem is that the acting head of the FBI & the person in charge of the Hillary investigation, Andrew McCabe, got $700,000 from H for wife!