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Dishonest Dumdum Donnie - The Village - 5/21/25 [1]
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Date: 2025-05-21
30K lies last term. Trump determined to beat that. 'Extremely Dishonest': CNN Fact-Checker Nails Trump On 13 'Flat False' Claims
Daniel Dale said the president's speech before a joint session of Congress was filled with falsehoods.
..by the standard of any politician in Washington who is not Donald Trump, that was still an extremely dishonest speech,” he said. “I counted at least 13 flat false claims, and that is a preliminary count that doesn’t include a whole bunch of additional misleading or uncorroborated claims.” Trump, Dale said, repeated his frequent false claim about tariffs, saying they’re paid by other countries and not ultimately the American consumer. Trump also delivered “wildly exaggerated figures on inflation and immigration under President Biden.” www.huffpost.com/... Fact check: Debunking 100 Trump false claims from his first 100 days by Daniel Dale President Donald Trump filled his first 100 days back in office with the same relentless lying and inaccuracy that was a hallmark of his first presidency and his 2016 and 2024 presidential campaigns. Some of Trump’s 2025 false claims were about consequential policy matters, others about trivial personal fixations. Some were sophisticated distortions about obscure subjects, others obvious fictions about issues average Americans experience in their daily lives. Many were ad-libbed or posted on social media, but many were scripted into prepared remarks…
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8. Falsely claimed that, before he came back to office, “We were losing $2 trillion a year on trade.” The total US deficit in goods and services trade in 2024 was about $918 billion; if you count only goods trade and ignore the services trade at which the US excels, it was about $1.2 trillion, still far shy of Trump’s figure. (And economists widely reject Trump’s notion that a trade deficit, the difference between the value of US imports and exports in a given year, is a loss.) 15. Falsely claimed Ukraine started the war with Russia, saying, “You should’ve never started it. You could’ve made a deal.” Russia started the war, annexing Ukraine’s Crimea region in 2014 and then launching a full-scale invasion in 2022. 34. Falsely claimed of hostages in Gaza: “Biden got none back, by the way, just so you understand: none, zero.” Leaving aside the question of who deserves more credit for the ceasefire-for-hostages deal secured by representatives of both Trump and Biden in the final days of Biden’s presidency, Hamas released 105 hostages during a brief 2023 truce brokered in part by the Biden administration about a year before Trump’s election victory. 69. Falsely claimed “they’re opening up coal plants all over Germany.” Germany closed 18 coal plants in 2024, its government told The Associated Press, and is not opening any new ones; the country has formally committed to phasing out coal by 2038 at the latest. It is true that Germany temporarily revived some idled coal plants after Russia slashed natural gas exports following its 2022 invasion of Ukraine, but those plants were taken offline again in 2024. 98. Falsely claimed “money is being paid to many” of the more than 10 million people listed in the Social Security database as being 120 years old or older. Social Security already stops payments to people listed as being age 115 and older. As a government watchdog noted in a 2023 report and the Trump-appointed acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration noted in a February 2025 statement, someone not being marked as deceased in the database doesn’t mean they’re actually receiving checks. Go here to see all 100 lies: www.cnn.com/…
Donald Trump Really Is a Lot Dumber Than We Thought. Like, a Lot!
His reading of American history is shockingly stupid, even for him.
I want to focus on Trump’s understanding of history. It’s so shockingly dumb—yes, even for him—that it’s hard to believe that we have a president of the United States who is this ignorant. Here’s what Trump said the other day, and he has said versions of it a number of times: “In the 1880s, they established a commission to decide what they were going to do with the vast sums of money they were collecting. We were collecting so much money so fast, we didn’t know what to do with it. Isn’t that a nice problem to have?” OK. First of all. Nobody can tell what commission he’s talking about… But more importantly, there’s this. Allow me to put this as Trump himself might on Truth Social: THE MAN IS AN IDIOT!!! ...But here’s the thing you need to know that the president of the United States does not: Tariffs supported most of what the federal government did in the 1800s because the federal government didn’t do much of anything. So in sum, Trump is fantasizing about some America that no one, literally not a single American, wants to return to. Poverty was through the roof. Health care was abysmal. People had seizures from toothaches. Most people didn’t even use toilet paper yet (it wasn’t “splinter-free” until the 1930s!). newrepublic.com/…
Lawrence O’Donnell:
It takes 'Trump-level stupidity' to beg for a $400M jet while advocating Medicaid cuts.
MSNBC’S Lawrence O’Donnell explains why a $400 million jet gifted by Qatar to Donald Trump is going to be a political issue in this country for as long as Trump's stupidity allows it to be.
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