For Donald Trump, a man who has been documented as having lied over 2,000 times in his first year in office, to hold a ceremony for Fake News Awards is to give irony a bad name.
Oddly enough, while President Trump listed 10 stories at his awards ceremony which have since been corrected, Pulitzer Prize-winning site Politifact.com has graded 74 claims by Trump as "Pants on Fire," meaning they're so egregiously false, they could literally set a person's pants on fire. Let's look at those, shall we?
1) "Says of the diversity visa lottery program, 'they give us their worst people, they put them in a bin,' and 'the worst of the worst' are selected."
2) "For years, they have not been able to get tax cuts -- many, many years, since Reagan."
3) "Says Joe Scarborough is party to an 'unsolved mystery' from his time as a congressman in Florida."
4) "Chicago is 'the city with the strongest gun laws in our nation.'"
5) "Ending the estate tax would 'protect millions of small businesses and the American farmer.'"
6) "White nationalist protesters in Charlottesville 'had a permit. The other group didn't have a permit.'"
7) "Study what General Pershing of the United States did to terrorists when caught. There was no more Radical Islamic Terror for 35 years!"
8) "Amazon has a 'no-tax monopoly.'"
9) "CNN's ratings are 'way down.'"
10) "This Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story. It's an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should've won."
11) "Before the presidential campaign, 'I didn't know Steve (Bannon).'"
12) "Terrorism and terrorist attacks in the United States and Europe have 'gotten to a point where it's not even being reported.'"
13) "If Russia, or some other entity, was hacking, why did the White House wait so long to act? Why did they only complain after Hillary lost?"
14) "There was 'serious voter fraud' in Virginia."
15) "There was 'serious voter fraud' in New Hampshire."
16) "There was 'serious voter fraud' in California."
17) "Says he 'won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.'"
18) "Says that at a campaign rally President Barack Obama 'spent so much time screaming at a protester, and frankly it was a disgrace.'"
19) "Says Hillary Clinton 'wants to let people just pour in. You could have 650 million people pour in and we do nothing about it. Think of it. That's what could happen. You triple the size of our country in one week.'"
20) "Wikileaks also shows how John Podesta rigged the polls by oversampling Democrats, a voter suppression technique."
21) "When Hillary Clinton 'ran the State Department, $6 billion was missing. How do you miss $6 billion? You ran the State Department, $6 billion was either stolen - they don't know.'"
22) "It's possible that non-citizen voters were responsible for Obama's 2008 victory in North Carolina."
23) "Of course, there is large scale voter fraud happening on and before election day."
24) "'We don't have any' chess grandmasters in the United States."
25) "Says he won the second debate with Hillary Clinton 'in a landslide' in 'every poll.'"
26) "Says a tweet he sent out 'wasn't saying, 'check out a sex tape.' It was just 'take a look at' the background of Alicia Machado."
27) "Our African-American communities are absolutely in the worst shape they've ever been in before. Ever. Ever. Ever."
28) "'I finished' the controversy about where President Barack Obama was born."
29) "My opponents has no child care plan."
30) "Says Hillary Clinton has 'not answered a single question' about her immigration plan."
31) "The number of illegal immigrants 'could be 3 million. It could be 30 million.'"
32) "Inner-city crime is reaching record levels."
33) "Says the U.S. election system is 'rigged.'"
34) "Says Barack Obama 'founded ISIS. I would say the co-founder would be crooked Hillary Clinton.'"
35) "Hillary Clinton says she wants to, 'raise taxes on the middle class.'"
36) "I'm beating (Kelly Ayotte) in the polls by a lot."
37) "We have a fire marshal that said, 'Oh we can't allow more people' ... And the reason they won't let them in is because they don't know what the hell they're doing."
38) "As usual, Hillary & Dems are trying to rig the debates so 2 are up against major NFL games."
39) "On gift taking, 'Bob McDonnell took a fraction of what (Tim) Kaine took.'"
40) "Says Ted Cruz 'never denied' his father was photographed with Lee Harvey Oswald."
41) "We don't know anything about Hillary in terms of religion. Now, she's been in the public eye for years and years, and yet there's no - there's nothing out there."
42) "Says Hillary Clinton 'has even deleted this record of total support (for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement) from her book.'"
43) "For the amount of money Hillary Clinton would like to spend on refugees, we could rebuild every inner city in America."
44) "The Obama administration was actively supporting Al Qaeda in Iraq, the terrorist group that became the Islamic State."
45) "Crime is rising."
46) "I wanted to keep it private, because I don't think it's anybody's business if I want to send money to the vets."
47) "It 'is Hillary Clinton's agenda' to 'release the violent criminals from jail. She wants them all released.'"
48) "Look, we are at war with these people and they don't wear uniforms. ... This is a war against people that are vicious, violent people, that we have no idea who they are, where they come from. We are allowing tens of thousands of them into our country now."
49) "Says Ted Cruz's father 'was with Lee Harvey Oswald' before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy."
50) "Frankly, (Hillary Clinton) doesn't do very well with women."
51) "The 2016 federal omnibus spending bill 'funds illegal immigrants coming in and through your border, right through Phoenix.'"
52) "Says that when Michelle Fields 'found out that there was a security camera, and that they had her on tape, all of a sudden that story changed.'"
53) "Out of 67 counties (in Florida), I won 66, which is unprecedented. It's never happened before."
54) "I don't know anything about David Duke."
55) "Says Ted Cruz 'said I was in favor of Libya. I never discussed that subject.'"
56) "Says that in the Philippines more than a century ago, Gen. John Pershing 'took 50 bullets, and he dipped them in pigs- blood,' and shot 49 Muslim rebels. 'The 50th person, he said, 'You go back to your people, and you tell them what happened.' And for 25 years, there wasn't a problem."
57) "Don't believe those phony numbers when you hear 4.9 and 5 percent unemployment. The number's probably 28, 29, as high as 35. In fact, I even heard recently 42 percent."
58) "A Trump television ad shows Mexicans swarming over 'our southern border.'"
59) "President Barack Obama 'wants to take in 250,000 (people) from Syria.'"
60) "Says crime statistics show blacks kill 81 percent of white homicide victims."
61) "I watched in Jersey City, N.J., where thousands and thousands of people were cheering' as the World Trade Center collapsed."
62) "The federal government is sending refugees to states with governors who are 'Republicans, not to the Democrats.'"
63) "The Trans-Pacific Partnership 'was designed for China to come in, as they always do, through the back door and totally take advantage of everyone.'"
64) "'I never said that' Marco Rubio was Mark Zuckerberg's personal senator."
65) "Says Bernie Sanders is going to 'tax you people at 90 percent.'"
66) "The unemployment rate may be as high as '42 percent.'"
67) "The Mexican government ... they send the bad ones over."
68) "The number of illegal immigrants in the United States is '30 million, it could be 34 million.'"
69) "The Mexican government forces many bad people into our country."
70) "The last quarter, it was just announced, our gross domestic product ... was below zero. Who ever heard of this? It's never below zero."
71) "Says President Barack Obama's recent New York fundraising trip 'cost between $25 million and $50 million.'"
72) "After the U.S.-led military alliance ejected Saddam Hussein's forces from Kuwait in 1991, the Kuwaitis 'never paid us.'"
73) "CNN did a poll recently where Obama and I are statistically tied."
74) "The people that went to school with (Barack Obama), they never saw him, they don't know who he is."
Like I said, it's "bigly" ironic Donald Trump basically played host to the Fake News Awards. Donald Trump is fake news.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/01/10/president-trump-has-made-more-than-2000-false-or-misleading-claims-over-355-days/?utm_term=.5d0764a995e7
http://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-s-biggest-whoppers-2017-n830746
Oddly enough, while President Trump listed 10 stories at his awards ceremony which have since been corrected, Pulitzer Prize-winning site Politifact.com has graded 74 claims by Trump as "Pants on Fire," meaning they're so egregiously false, they could literally set a person's pants on fire. Let's look at those, shall we?
1) "Says of the diversity visa lottery program, 'they give us their worst people, they put them in a bin,' and 'the worst of the worst' are selected."
2) "For years, they have not been able to get tax cuts -- many, many years, since Reagan."
3) "Says Joe Scarborough is party to an 'unsolved mystery' from his time as a congressman in Florida."
4) "Chicago is 'the city with the strongest gun laws in our nation.'"
5) "Ending the estate tax would 'protect millions of small businesses and the American farmer.'"
6) "White nationalist protesters in Charlottesville 'had a permit. The other group didn't have a permit.'"
7) "Study what General Pershing of the United States did to terrorists when caught. There was no more Radical Islamic Terror for 35 years!"
8) "Amazon has a 'no-tax monopoly.'"
9) "CNN's ratings are 'way down.'"
10) "This Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story. It's an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should've won."
11) "Before the presidential campaign, 'I didn't know Steve (Bannon).'"
12) "Terrorism and terrorist attacks in the United States and Europe have 'gotten to a point where it's not even being reported.'"
13) "If Russia, or some other entity, was hacking, why did the White House wait so long to act? Why did they only complain after Hillary lost?"
14) "There was 'serious voter fraud' in Virginia."
15) "There was 'serious voter fraud' in New Hampshire."
16) "There was 'serious voter fraud' in California."
17) "Says he 'won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.'"
18) "Says that at a campaign rally President Barack Obama 'spent so much time screaming at a protester, and frankly it was a disgrace.'"
19) "Says Hillary Clinton 'wants to let people just pour in. You could have 650 million people pour in and we do nothing about it. Think of it. That's what could happen. You triple the size of our country in one week.'"
20) "Wikileaks also shows how John Podesta rigged the polls by oversampling Democrats, a voter suppression technique."
21) "When Hillary Clinton 'ran the State Department, $6 billion was missing. How do you miss $6 billion? You ran the State Department, $6 billion was either stolen - they don't know.'"
22) "It's possible that non-citizen voters were responsible for Obama's 2008 victory in North Carolina."
23) "Of course, there is large scale voter fraud happening on and before election day."
24) "'We don't have any' chess grandmasters in the United States."
25) "Says he won the second debate with Hillary Clinton 'in a landslide' in 'every poll.'"
26) "Says a tweet he sent out 'wasn't saying, 'check out a sex tape.' It was just 'take a look at' the background of Alicia Machado."
27) "Our African-American communities are absolutely in the worst shape they've ever been in before. Ever. Ever. Ever."
28) "'I finished' the controversy about where President Barack Obama was born."
29) "My opponents has no child care plan."
30) "Says Hillary Clinton has 'not answered a single question' about her immigration plan."
31) "The number of illegal immigrants 'could be 3 million. It could be 30 million.'"
32) "Inner-city crime is reaching record levels."
33) "Says the U.S. election system is 'rigged.'"
34) "Says Barack Obama 'founded ISIS. I would say the co-founder would be crooked Hillary Clinton.'"
35) "Hillary Clinton says she wants to, 'raise taxes on the middle class.'"
36) "I'm beating (Kelly Ayotte) in the polls by a lot."
37) "We have a fire marshal that said, 'Oh we can't allow more people' ... And the reason they won't let them in is because they don't know what the hell they're doing."
38) "As usual, Hillary & Dems are trying to rig the debates so 2 are up against major NFL games."
39) "On gift taking, 'Bob McDonnell took a fraction of what (Tim) Kaine took.'"
40) "Says Ted Cruz 'never denied' his father was photographed with Lee Harvey Oswald."
41) "We don't know anything about Hillary in terms of religion. Now, she's been in the public eye for years and years, and yet there's no - there's nothing out there."
42) "Says Hillary Clinton 'has even deleted this record of total support (for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement) from her book.'"
43) "For the amount of money Hillary Clinton would like to spend on refugees, we could rebuild every inner city in America."
44) "The Obama administration was actively supporting Al Qaeda in Iraq, the terrorist group that became the Islamic State."
45) "Crime is rising."
46) "I wanted to keep it private, because I don't think it's anybody's business if I want to send money to the vets."
47) "It 'is Hillary Clinton's agenda' to 'release the violent criminals from jail. She wants them all released.'"
48) "Look, we are at war with these people and they don't wear uniforms. ... This is a war against people that are vicious, violent people, that we have no idea who they are, where they come from. We are allowing tens of thousands of them into our country now."
49) "Says Ted Cruz's father 'was with Lee Harvey Oswald' before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy."
50) "Frankly, (Hillary Clinton) doesn't do very well with women."
51) "The 2016 federal omnibus spending bill 'funds illegal immigrants coming in and through your border, right through Phoenix.'"
52) "Says that when Michelle Fields 'found out that there was a security camera, and that they had her on tape, all of a sudden that story changed.'"
53) "Out of 67 counties (in Florida), I won 66, which is unprecedented. It's never happened before."
54) "I don't know anything about David Duke."
55) "Says Ted Cruz 'said I was in favor of Libya. I never discussed that subject.'"
56) "Says that in the Philippines more than a century ago, Gen. John Pershing 'took 50 bullets, and he dipped them in pigs- blood,' and shot 49 Muslim rebels. 'The 50th person, he said, 'You go back to your people, and you tell them what happened.' And for 25 years, there wasn't a problem."
57) "Don't believe those phony numbers when you hear 4.9 and 5 percent unemployment. The number's probably 28, 29, as high as 35. In fact, I even heard recently 42 percent."
58) "A Trump television ad shows Mexicans swarming over 'our southern border.'"
59) "President Barack Obama 'wants to take in 250,000 (people) from Syria.'"
60) "Says crime statistics show blacks kill 81 percent of white homicide victims."
61) "I watched in Jersey City, N.J., where thousands and thousands of people were cheering' as the World Trade Center collapsed."
62) "The federal government is sending refugees to states with governors who are 'Republicans, not to the Democrats.'"
63) "The Trans-Pacific Partnership 'was designed for China to come in, as they always do, through the back door and totally take advantage of everyone.'"
64) "'I never said that' Marco Rubio was Mark Zuckerberg's personal senator."
65) "Says Bernie Sanders is going to 'tax you people at 90 percent.'"
66) "The unemployment rate may be as high as '42 percent.'"
67) "The Mexican government ... they send the bad ones over."
68) "The number of illegal immigrants in the United States is '30 million, it could be 34 million.'"
69) "The Mexican government forces many bad people into our country."
70) "The last quarter, it was just announced, our gross domestic product ... was below zero. Who ever heard of this? It's never below zero."
71) "Says President Barack Obama's recent New York fundraising trip 'cost between $25 million and $50 million.'"
72) "After the U.S.-led military alliance ejected Saddam Hussein's forces from Kuwait in 1991, the Kuwaitis 'never paid us.'"
73) "CNN did a poll recently where Obama and I are statistically tied."
74) "The people that went to school with (Barack Obama), they never saw him, they don't know who he is."
Like I said, it's "bigly" ironic Donald Trump basically played host to the Fake News Awards. Donald Trump is fake news.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/01/10/president-trump-has-made-more-than-2000-false-or-misleading-claims-over-355-days/?utm_term=.5d0764a995e7
http://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-s-biggest-whoppers-2017-n830746
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