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Monday, July 16th, 2018

Trump has said 1,340,330 words as president. They’re getting more dishonest, a Star study shows

Author:     DANIEL DALE
Source:     The Toronto Star (Canada)
Publication Date:     Sat., July 14, 2018
 Link: Trump has said 1,340,330 words as president. They’re getting more dishonest, a Star study shows
Stephan:   Remember George Washington's famous line, "I cannot tell a lie." Well, we're a long way from the first president. The 45th is a psychopath and a compulsive liar and everyone in any government around the world, as this Canadian story reports, knows that nothing he says can be taken at face value. And it is getting worse. Let's deal with some facts. Isn't it nice to have another country tell you your president lies as he breathes.  

WASHINGTON—U.S. President Donald Trump’s words are getting more dishonest over time, the Star has found in the first detailed statistical analysis of his inaccurate statements in office.

The analysis relies on some subjective judgments, which we’ll explain in detail below. But it provides the most comprehensive picture yet available of what historians say is an unprecedented avalanche of serial lying.

Trump’s dishonesty has been a central story of his presidency, a daily problem that has confounded members of Congress and foreign leaders, confused policy debates and made it difficult for many members of the American public to trust the commander-in-chief.

We’ve tried to quantify the issue. Since Trump’s inauguration speech on Jan. 20, 2017, we’ve fact-checked every word Trump has spoken or tweeted since his inauguration speech on Jan. 20, 2017. Up until July 1, 2018, the end date for the analysis, we had counted 1,929 false claims.

Readers wanted more than just this raw number. They asked us, for example, to explain why the number of false claims per week has increased since early 2017. The key question: is Trump […]

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