71 Trump Lies for Trump’s 71st Birthday
June 14th marks Trump’s 71st birthday, and to celebrate, we gathered a list of our 71 all-time favorite Trump untruths!
Unsurprisingly, a majority of Americans know Trump is a liar: a recent poll found 59% of respondents think Trump is “not honest.” One thing we all know *isn’t* a lie: this year when Trump blows out his birthday candles, he’ll be wishing for the Russian investigation to go away. Well, he’s going to be disappointed because we are so not going to let that happen!
It’s a long list, but power through: think of it as a way to get your “call your representation”-face on….
Our 71 Favorite Trump Lies:
1. “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my “wires tapped” in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!”
2. “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.”
3. “I released the most extensive financial review of anybody in the history of politics. … You don’t learn much in a tax return.”
4. “No administration has accomplished more in the first 90 days.”
5. Americans don’t “care at all” about Donald Trump’s tax returns.
6. “I’m a very big person when it comes to the environment. I have received awards on the environment.”
7. “Never has there been a president, with few exceptions…who’s passed more legislation, who’s done more things”
8. I “won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.”
9. “The NSA and FBI told Congress that Russia did not influence electoral process.”
10. “Oh, of course (I denounce anti-Semitism). And I do it whenever I get a chance, I do it.”
11. “Trump administration seen as more truthful than news media.”
12. There is “no system to vet” refugees from the Middle East.
13. The unemployment rate may be as high as “42 percent.”
14. Barack Obama “founded ISIS. I would say the co-founder is crooked Hillary Clinton.”
15. Crime statistics show “blacks kill 81 percent of white homicide victims.”
16. “I watched in Jersey City, N.J., where thousands and thousands of people were cheering” as the World Trade Center collapsed.
17. Ted Cruz’s father “was with Lee Harvey Oswald” before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
18. The number of illegal immigrants “could be 3 million. It could be 30 million.”
19. “Look at what’s happening last night in Sweden. Sweden, who would believe this? Sweden. They took in large numbers. They’re having problems like they never thought possible.”
20. “We’re the highest taxed nation in the world.”
21. “Crime is rising.”
22. “We had a massive landslide victory, as you know, in the Electoral College.”
23. “Inner city crime is reaching record levels”
24. The US Election system “is rigged”
25. “14 percent of noncitizens are registered to vote.”
26. There was “serious voter fraud” in Virginia.
27. There was “serious voter fraud” in New Hampshire.
28. There was “serious voter fraud” in California.
29. “Of course, there is large scale voter fraud happening on and before election day.”
30. Professional anarchists, thugs and paid protesters are proving the point of the millions of people who voted to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
31. “Germany owes … vast sums of money to NATO & the United States must be paid more for the powerful, and very expensive, defense it provides to Germany!”
32. Terrorism and terrorist attacks in the United States and Europe have “gotten to a point where it’s not even being reported.”
33. “If you were a Muslim, you could come in, if you were a Christian, it was impossible.”
34. “I was totally against the war in Iraq, saying for many years that it would destabilize the Middle East.”
35. “The Mexican government forces many bad people into our country.”
36. Before the presidential campaign, “I didn’t know Steve (Bannon).”
37. “Our African-American communities are absolutely in the worst shape they’ve ever been in before. Ever. Ever. Ever.”
38. The 2016 federal omnibus spending bill “funded illegal immigrants coming in and through your border, right through Phoenix.”
39. “The Obama administration was actively promoting Al Qaeda in Iraq — the terrorist group that became the Islamic State”
40. “Out of 67 counties (in Florida), I won 66, which is unprecedented. It’s never happened before.”
41. The federal government is sending refugees to states with governors who are “Republicans, not to the Democrats.”
42. “It has gotten so bad that nearly 20 million Americans have chosen to pay the penalty, or received an exemption rather than buy insurance.”
43. “We have the worst financial recovery in 65 years.”
44. “Millions of Americans lost the insurance and lost the doctor that they liked and were thrust into a cold new reality of higher costs and less coverage.”
45. “First of all, (the Affordable Care Act) covers very few people.”
46. “Dems want billions to go to Insurance Companies to bail out donors”
47. “I made a speech. I looked out, the field was — it looked like a million, million and a half people.”
48. “Had a great meeting at CIA Headquarters yesterday, packed house, paid great respect to Wall, long standing ovations, amazing people.”
49. “A lot of jobs; 28,000 jobs. Great construction jobs. OK. Keystone pipeline.”
50. “We’ve taken in tens of thousands of people. We know nothing about them. They can say they vet them. They didn’t vet them.”
51. “My policy is similar to what President Obama did in 2011 when he banned visas for refugees from Iraq for six months.”
52. “Only 109 people out of 325,000 were detained and held for questioning. Big problems at airports were caused by Delta computer outage.”
53. “Interesting that certain Middle-Eastern countries agree with the ban. They know if certain people are allowed in it’s death & destruction!”
54. “The weak illegal immigration policies of the Obama Administration allowed bad MS 13 gangs to form in cities across U.S. We are removing them fast!”
55. “Jobs are pouring out of the country.”
56. “The murder rate in our country is the highest it’s been in 47 years.”
57. “How low has President Obama gone to tapp [sic] my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!”
58. “The @nytimes sent a letter to their subscribers apologizing for their BAD coverage of me.”
59. “Despite what you hear in the press, health care is coming along great. We are talking to many groups and it will end in a beautiful picture!”
60. “Obamacare is imploding and will only get worse.”
61. “Beyonce and Jay Z, I like them, I like them … I get bigger crowds than they do. It’s true. I get far bigger crowds.”
62. The media “never show crowds.”
63. “Because of what I’ve been doing and what I’m doing in terms of regulation — lowering taxes, et cetera — (Ford, General Motors, Intel, and Fiat Chrysler) are coming in with billions and billions of dollars of investment, and thousands of thousands of jobs.”
64. The stories from women saying he groped or forced himself on them “largely have been debunked.”
65. “NATO is opening up a major terror division. I’m sure I’m not going to get credit for it, but that was largely because of what I was saying and my criticism of NATO.”
66. “Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy.”
67. “Our veterans, in many cases, are being treated worse than illegal immigrants.”
68. “China will be allowed to build hundreds of additional coal plants. So we can’t build the plants, but they can, according to this (Paris) agreement.”
69. “Last year our lost almost $800 billion in Trade. Not going to happen anymore, folks.”
70. “109 people out of hundreds of thousands of travelers” were affected by the immigration executive order.
71. “Youth unemployment is through the roof.”
Source: Trump’s mouth, fact checked by Politifact and The New York Times.
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