Trump Lied More Than 30,000 Times During His Presidency. No Wonder We're Exhausted.
Trump Lied More Than 30,000 Times During His Presidency. No Wonder We’re Exhausted.
Washington Post fact checkers have released their final tally of presidential BS.
The public’s apathy and despair towards Trump’s lies, researchers point out, were by design: The attacks mirrored a Russian propaganda technique known as the “firehose of falsehood,” which is exactly what it sounds like—relentless, rapid, bogus information. As Mother Jones‘ Mark Follman wrote in October, “Trump is using the autocrat’s playbook. Vladimir Putin’s, to be specific.”
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What is especially striking is how the tsunami of untruths kept rising the longer he served as president and became increasingly unmoored from the truth.
Trump averaged about six claims a day in his first year as president, 16 claims day in his second year, 22 claims day in this third year—and 39 claims a day in his final year. Put another way, it took him 27 months to reach 10,000 claims and an additional 14 months to reach 20,000. He then exceeded the 30,000 mark less than five months later.
Here’s a chart of the exponential growth of Trump’s cumulative “untruths”:
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/01/donald-trump-thirty-thousand-lies/
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