Trump Talked About His Fake 'Man of the Year' Award
President Donald Trump has been claiming for years that he won “Michigan Man of the Year” in 2013 ... Dating at least as far back as the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump has been claiming to have won an award called “Michigan Man of the Year,” and he did so again at his rally in Manchester, New Hampshire this week.
CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale has been trying to figure out what the hell Trump is talking about, and this week, finally seems to have gotten to the bottom of it. Former Michigan Republican Congressman Dave Trott told Dale that there was no such award.
Trott says Trump claimed to him that he was given the award at a Lincoln Day dinner Trott invited him to speak at in 2013. But Trott says there was no award, just a speech. Trott adds that Trump insisted Trott had to tell the press that it was the largest Oakland County Lincoln Day Dinner crowd ever, even though Trott told him he had no idea if that was true.
The source uncovered a picture of Trump being given a framed copy of the Gettysburg Address, not the Michigan Man of the Year award, which appears not to exist. Trott says that Trump thanked him for the alleged award at a 2017 roundtable with auto CEOs. Trott says he wasn’t about to correct Trump in front of CEOs while Trott was in Congress, but now he’s out of office and doesn’t care, so he can say Trump made it up.
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