On Sept. 7, President Trump woke up in Billings, Mont., flew to Fargo, N.D., visited Sioux Falls, S.D., and eventually returned to Washington. He spoke to reporters on Air Force One, held a pair of fundraisers and was interviewed by three local reporters.
In that single day, he publicly made 125 false or misleading statements — in a period of time that totaled only about 120 minutes. It was a new single-day high.
The day before, the president made 74 false or misleading claims, many at a campaign rally in Montana. An anonymous op-ed article by a senior administration official had just been published in the New York Times, and news circulated about journalist Bob Woodward’s insider account of Trump’s presidency.
Trump’s tsunami of untruths helped push the count in The Fact Checker’s database past 5,000 on the 601st day of his presidency. That’s an average of 8.3 Trumpian claims a day, but in the past nine days — since our last update — the president has averaged 32 claims a day.
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Dementia has set in for Trump. He will be another one of those people with Alzheimer’s disease, like my mother, before long. She was also a Republican, even though I tried to convince her of the truth about their values and approach to governance.
The trump lies when telling the truth would be easier, “disgraceful!” And yes dementia could explain a lot although trump has held many of his pov’s for some time. My mother in her old age became a rock solid republican and would have been a trumper no question.