Donald Trump lies a lot, to the point that news outlets have run out of euphemisms for lying [misstatements of fact, fibs, exaggerations, alternative facts], and fact-checking the President has become a very depressing full time job. CNN's Daniel Dale told the Los Angeles Times that President Trump lies so much he had to “make a decision” to stop counting each one of the president’s false claims and “just focus on the big stuff.” And recently, with the election approaching, T

In Wisconsin, Donald Trump tried out a new conspiracy theory to explain why his administration has failed to contain the coronavirus pandemic. The President told his supporters at Waukesha County Airport that healthcare workers are inflating COVID-19 death statistics because “doctors get more money and hospitals get more money.” That is a sickening, reprehensible lie, even for Donald Trump. Actually, many experts argue that the death toll from the pandemic has been underrepor

The President's sister says that Trump is unprincipled, incompetent and cruel. President Trump’s sister, former federal judge Maryanne Trump Barry, was recorded by her niece, Mary Trump, discussing the President's immigration policies in 2018 and 2019. Yesterday, Mary released those tapes to the Washington Post and they paint a very dark picture of the President. Talking about Trump's child separation policy at the border, she describes her brother as having "no principles."

As we have documented many more times than we would like, Donald Trump lies constantly, about everything, big and small. It's a problem, but not one that his supporters seem to care much about. But, little by little, it's changing how America discusses politics and public policy, and how we are perceived globally by allies and enemies. And it's unraveling the social fabric of our nation by undermining our faith in our most important institutions and our shared confidence in o

Since the end of the Second World War, America's Presidents have led the free world, not always perfectly, to be sure, but with confidence that they were working to address global problems while advancing democracy and a rules-based international order. Johnson's war in Vietnam and Bush's disastrous Iraq quagmire certainly tarnished that image, but President Trump has done something they couldn't. In just a few short years, Donald Trump has made American leadership seem irrel

Donald Trump's "tsunami of untruths" just keep coming. The Washington Post's fact checkers noted that he has accumulated 10,000 false or misleading claims during his presidency and that the frequency has now surpassed 22 per day. The Post reported that he has racked up 5000 just since last September. Moreover, He doesn't even seem to care that so many of his lies are easy to disprove. Recently, for instance, he has claimed his dad, Fred, was from Germany [he was born in the B