TRUMP`S LIES AND MISLEADING FACTS
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One thing that everyone expects from any president of the
United States is honesty. If an honest statement uttered by President Trump with
respect to his public statements were described as a grain of salt, it would only
be one grain of salt in a salt shaker. All the other grains of salt would be
his lies and misleading facts. As of January 19th 2929th
2020, he lied or gave misleading facts as many as 16,241 times. Here are some of his repeated lies and
misleading facts he uttered from his lying mouth.
“The economy is
the best it's ever been in. We have
never had an economy like this in history.”
Repeated 257 times
The president can certainly brag about the
state of the economy, but he runs into trouble when he makes a play for the
history books. By just about any important measure, the economy today is not
doing as well as it did under Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lyndon B.
Johnson or Bill Clinton — or Ulysses S. Grant.
“Under our landmark
agreement, China will now be purchasing $40 billion to $50 billion of
agricultural products every single year, tripling our agricultural exports to
China. ”
Repeated 22 times
Trump keeps claiming he achieved an
agreement with China to buy as much as $50 billion in agricultural products in
less than two years. But the Chinese did not confirm that. "Questions
remain over how much, the time frame for purchases, and what the U.S. might
have to give in return," the Wall Street Journal reported. "Chinese negotiators continue to say purchases must be
based on actual demand and at fair-market prices, according to people briefed
by the matter." In mid-December, 2019, a partial deal was confirmed by
both sides, but when it was signed on January 15, 2020, it was revealed the
commitment was for $32 billion over two years above the 2017 baseline, not $50
billion. That would translate to $36.3 billion in 2020 and $43.3 billion in
2012. Many analysts are skeptical the Chinese side can even make such a
purchase, given a swine fever outbreak that has reduced the number of pigs in
China that are typically fattened up on soybeans. Indeed, at the signing
ceremony, Chinese Vice Premier Liu He said that Chinese firms will buy American
products “based on
market conditions,” sending soybean
prices tumbling.
“The catastrophe, the disaster known as NAFT.A
Our jobs left, our factories closed. ”
Repeated 114 times
Trump’s attack on NAFTA is over the top.
It is often difficult to separate out the impact of trade agreements on jobs,
compared to other, broader economic trends such as automation and the explosive
growth of low-wage labor abroad. But the nonpartisan Congressional Research
Service in 2015 concluded the “net overall effect of NAFTA on the U.S. economy
appears to have been relatively modest, primarily because trade with Canada and
Mexico accounts for a small percentage of U.S. GDP,” though it noted “there were
worker and firm adjustment costs as the three countries adjusted to more open
trade and investment among their economies.” Despite all of his complaints,
Trump's renegotiated NAFTA deal only made changes marginally
“Our manufacturing numbers are fantastic. We
now have almost 600,000 new jobs. ”
Repeated 51 times
Manufacturers have added
about 480,000 jobs since Trump took office. Since his election in 2016, the job
gain is about 525,000. Manufacturing jobs growth slumped badly in 2019, adding
only 46,000 jobs during the year. U.S. manufacturing was in a mild recession
for all of 2019, according to data released by the Federal Reserve.
“Under the previous
administration, net farm income plummeted by more 120 percent. Under my
administration…In three years, net farm income has gone up $30 billion, an
increase of 50 percent in just three years.”
Said only once
Trump is cherry-picking numbers here. Net farm income fell
steadily from 2013 before rebounding in 2017, according to USDA’s Economic Research Service. “U.S. farm income experienced a
golden period during 2011 through 2014 due to strong commodity prices and
robust agricultural exports,” according to the nonpartisan Congressional
Research Service. "In inflation-adjusted 2019 dollars, net farm income is
forecast to increase $7.0 billion (8.2 percent) from 2018," according to the USDA. "If realized, in inflation-adjusted
terms, net farm income in 2019 would be 32.3 percent below its peak of $136.6
billion in 2013 but 2.8 percent above its 2000-18 average ($90.1
billion)."
“Canada will finally provide greater access for American
dairy. You know, Canada was charging us 280 percent in tariffs. Nobody knew
that. But those days are gone.”
Repeated 49 times
Trump is definitely wrong here. The dairy tariffs imposed by
Canada do not all go away; they remain in place. In the
revised North American trade agreement, the Trump administration get win some
concessions allowing for greater market access. But the tariffs were not
changed. (Canada does have high dairy tariffs once a quota is reached, just as
the United States props up sugar prices. But Canada's overall tariffs are lower
than the United States and Canada made dairy concessions in the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement
negotiated by Barack Obama, which Trump pulled out of in the early days of his
presidency.
“We
persuaded Japan to slash tariffs on $7 billion of U.S. agricultural products. It’s
a $40 billion deal, by the way.”
Repeated seven times
This is grossly misleading. Trump signed a
deal with Japan that returns benefits American farmers lost when he pulled out
of a broader Asia-Pacific pact his
first week in office, as Japan went ahead with the agreement with 11 other
nations, putting U.S. farmers at a disadvantage. The deal did not resolve
differences over trade in autos, but tariffs will be cut on $7 billion worth of
agricultural products and markets will be opened on about $40 billion worth of
digital trade between the two countries. Trump started to describe it
correctly, perhaps reading from a text, but then apparently ad-libbed, as he
often does, that this is $40 billion coming in the bank.
Repeated 7 times
“To help you keep your family farm and keep it in the family,
we virtually eliminated the deeply unfair estate tax or death tax.”
Repeated 38 times
This is an enormous stretch. Trump often
claims he saved family farms and small businesses by gradually reducing the
federal estate tax. (It was not fully eliminated.) Reducing the estate tax
primarily benefits the wealthy. The estate tax rarely falls on farms or small
businesses, since only those leaving behind more than $5 million pay it.
According to the Tax Policy Center,
nearly 5,500 estates in 2017 out of
nearly 3 million were subject to the
tax. Of those, only 80 taxable estates would be farms and small business.
“America now has the hottest economy anywhere on earth and
there’s no place close.”
Repeated 71 times
Trump first started
saying this when the American economy expanded at an annual rate of 3.5 percent
in the third quarter of 2018. Many other countries have faster growth rates,
including China, India, Latvia, Poland and Greece. U.S. economy started to slow
in the 4th quarter. GDP
growth was 2.2 percent, compared to 4.2 percent in the second quarter. But then
in the first quarter of 2019, GDP growth rose to 3.1 percent. But that is still
not the fastest growth in the world. Trump would have more of a point if he
specified that he was comparing the United States to other highly advanced
economies, rather than all countries in the world. The GDP growth rate fell to
2.0 percent in the second quarter of 2019 and to 1.9 percent in the third
quarter.
“Since my election the United States has gained 7 million jobs. It was unthought
of. If I had said that in the campaign trail, the fake news would have gone
crazy.”
Repeated 119 times
jobs.
Unthought of. If I had said that in the campaign trail, the fake news would
have gone crazy.”
Repeated 119 times
Trump cites how many jobs
have been created since the election, but not since the beginning of his
administration. Nearly 6.7 million jobs have been added to the economy since
Trump took office. Job growth under Trump in his first three years was roughly
the same as Obama's last three years.
“More Americans are working today than ever before, almost
160 million.”
Repeated 127 times
Of course there are more
Americans working. That’s because there are more Americans today than ever
before. More meaningful measures of the overall health of the job market take
population into consideration. The unemployment rate, or the share of people
who don't have jobs, has never reached a record low during Trump's presidency.
“The United States is now the number one producer for oil and
gas in the world. ”
Repeated 60 times
The notion that a revolution in
energy began under the Trump administration is wrong. The United States has led
the world in natural gas production since 2009. Crude oil production has been
increasing rapidly since 2010, reaching record levels in August 2018, according
to U.S. Energy Information Administration data. In September 2018, the United
States passed both Russia and Saudi Arabia to become the largest global crude
oil producer. It is expected to hold that position, according to predictions
from the International Energy Agency. Trump had nothing to do with the increase.
“The wall is being built at a very rapid pace.”
Repeated 242 times
Trump’s promised concrete wall
is not yet being built, though he has made progress on enhancing existing
barriers. Congress inserted specific language in its appropriations bill that
none of the $1.57 billion appropriated for border protection may be used for
prototypes of a concrete wall that Trump observed while in California. The
money can be used only for bollard fencing and levee fencing, or for
replacement of existing fencing. The same restrictions were included in the
spending bill Trump signed on Feb. 15, 2019. Trump appears to acknowledge the
renovations, except he persists in claiming it is a wall. All told, Congress
has funded about 175 miles of barriers. Trump has also tapped a Treasury
Department asset forfeiture fund to build 30 miles and unused Pentagon funding
to fund 53 miles, though he's run into trouble in the courts over the use of
these funds. That adds up to a little under 260 miles, which Trump-speak often
gets translated to 400 miles. Replacing dilapidated vehicle barriers and
weathered fencing with newer, sturdier stuff is the kind of routine government
business that predated Trump. It’s fair to say Trump is trying to put this
routine business on steroids, but that’s still a far cry from the massive new
bulwark made of concrete that he promised for so long. Furthermore, as of January
2020, only 100 miles of bollard fencing and barriers have been
built during Trump’s presidency, far short of the 1,000 miles he once pledged,
and far short of the 450 to 529 miles he now pledges. The Washington Post has reported that the bollard fencing is easily breached, with
smugglers sawing through it, despite Trump's claims that it is impossible to
get past. As of October, 2019, the Trump administration had acquired just 16 percent of the private land in Texas it needs
to build the president’s border barrier, with less than four miles completed.
“They had to capture them, they
[migrants] couldn't get over the wall. They had to send trucks and ladders. They
got stuck on the top of the wall, they couldn't get down, loaded up with drugs
on their back.”
Said only
once
“As a result [of our reductions in regulations], the average
American household will save $3,100 a year, just on regulation cuts.”
Repeated 13 times
Trump suggests American households are
getting an extra $3,000 in income because of his deregulatory actions. This
statistic comes from a report issued in June 2019 by his Council of Economic
Advisers, which calculated such savings five to ten years in the future. But
Trump frequently suggests the savings are already being received by households.
The report makes a number of generous assumptions about the impact of
deregulation in order come up with this figure, but experts that were consulted
found the assumptions and conclusions to be dubious. One expert cited in the
report said the analysis was “just crazy” and “anti-academic.” The report also
does not account for administration actions that have lowered household
incomes, such as the president's tariff war..
There are thousands of
false statements that are on the record and
if you watched his speech on February 5th
2020 when Trump gave his State of the Union speech, you will recognize some of the
lies he gave that night.
This man is a bald faced liar. As far as I am
concerned, everything he said on the night of February 5th, 2020 was
the same that he said the previous month. He is a pathological liar and will say
anything to get re-elected.
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If such a man was courting
one of my daughters, I would tell her that marrying a man who lies too much with so much
self-satisfaction it has always always
seemed to me as a sure way to court disaster.
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