FACT CHECK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said during a meeting with NATO’s secretary general Tuesday that his father was ‘born in a very wonderful place in Germany./ Fred Trump was born in the Bronx. His father — Trump’s grandfather — was born in Germany. Happy International Fact-Checking Day! Trump has made 9,451 false or misleading claims in his first 802 days in office! That’s according to the invaluable Washington Post Fact Checker which, from the start of Trump’s presidency, has cataloged the mountain of his mistruths. It’s not new news that the President exaggerates, distorts and outright lies on the regular. This is a feature, not a bug, of not only his presidency but his life. What is news is that, again according to the Fact Checker, the pace at which Trump makes false and misleading claims has rapidly quickened over the past six months or so. ‘That’s a pace of 22 fishy claims a day over the past 200 days, a steep climb from the average of nearly 5.9 false or misleading claims a day in Trump’s first year in office.’ Think about that. The President of the United States is AVERAGING 22 false/misleading claims a day for the last 200 days. And that is a rate four times as high as his pace of prevarication in 2017, his first year in office. Even more concerning is the fact that the place Trump tells the most fibs is at 2020 campaign rallies. The Fact Checker counted 64 — SIXTY-FOUR — false or misleading claims by Trump at a single rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, last week.”
–Chris Cillizza, “Donald Trump is now saying 22 things a day that aren’t true,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, April 2, 2019 5:38 pm