For your reading pleasure.
Look, I don’t care who anyone votes for, but if we’re gonna talk about truth, then we’re gonna talk about the actual track record here. Because Trump didn’t just bend the truth; he treated it like a balloon animal at a kid’s birthday party.
Here’s a non exhaustive list of things he said that were so false they needed their own witness protection program:
There’s a caravan of bad people coming from South America.
Yeah, it was mostly families and asylum seekers, not a traveling supervillain convention.
Democrats will take your guns.
Regulations ≠ confiscation. But fearmongering is great for merch sales.
I passed the biggest tax cut in history.
Not even close. But hey, if you ignore math, it sounds impressive.
COVID is totally under control.
It was spreading like wildfire while he was basically doing PR for a virus.
Anyone who wants a test can get a test.
People were driving hours and getting turned away. But sure, “anyone.
We built a brand new wall.
Most of it was replacement fencing. That’s like repainting your garage and calling it a mansion.
Mexico is paying for the wall.
Mexico: No.
U.S. taxpayers: Guess who actually paid.
We had no terrorism during my presidency.
Multiple attacks happened. You don’t get to erase events because they’re inconvenient.
I created the greatest economy in history.
Economists looked at the data and said, That’s adorable.
Inflation is stopped.
It was rising. Like visibly. Like “check literally any chart rising.
Consumer prices are down.
Every grocery receipt in America said otherwise.
Tariffs are paid by China, not Americans.
That’s not how tariffs work. At all.
We’re energy independent.
Still importing millions of barrels. Independence by imagination.
Alabama is in the path of Hurricane Dorian.
It wasn’t. But a Sharpie was bravely deployed to fix that.
We’re building ports in Colorado.
Colorado is landlocked. Very landlocked.
we can inject disinfectant.”
Doctors had to go on TV and say,
Please don’t drink cleaning products.”
In 2020. In real life.
There are literally hundreds and hundreds more but i’m tired and want to lay down and punch myself in the hard until i fall asleep.