![]() And they talked about the lack of early results on economic policy. Our colleague David Greene spoke with Stephen Moore of The Heritage Foundation. A tax plan is now promised to come this week. MARTIN: Three weeks came and went, then three more and another three. And we're going to be announcing something, I would say over the next two or three weeks, that will be phenomenal in terms of tax. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: We're way ahead of schedule, I believe. ![]() Here he is on February 9 saying a phenomenal tax plan is imminent. He said there'd be quick, early action on a tax overhaul. The president focused his campaign on an America-first economy, as he put it, that would spend more at home, less abroad. And ahead of that, we will be examining the administration's progress on a whole host of issues, starting today with the economy. But even if he decides to take a pass on running in 2024, Trump’s impact not just on politics but on our culture is massive – and nowhere is it bigger (or more problematic) than when it comes to his attempted erasure of truth and facts.President Trump marks his 100th day in office this coming Saturday. Trump may no longer be president – and he may never run for president again. ![]() The question is whether Trump’s pattern of dishonesty means that no matter what Biden does, we may never return to “normal.” A Quinnipiac University poll released in February showed 75% of self-identified Republicans agreeing with the statement that there was “widespread fraud in the 2020 election.”īiden’s fact-check performance has returned the norm we expect from presidents and politicians: Truth-stretching and exaggerating in the main, with the occasional whopper thrown in but rarely repeated. ![]() (Even as I type, Arizona’s state Senate Republicans are conducting a “recount” of the ballots in Maricopa County that is baffling at best.) Polling suggests Republican voters prefer Trump’s falsehoods to the objective truth. Then he used serial lying as a deliberate strategy in his response to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic – holding daily ‘briefings’ so wildly dishonest that CNN needed me to go on TV right afterward to debunk the nonsense viewers had just heard.”Īnd of course, none of that even takes into account the fact that Trump continues to propagate the Big Lie – that the 2020 election was fraudulent or stolen from him despite zero evidence of wrongdoing. Then he used serial lying as a deliberate strategy in his 2019 Ukraine scandal. His 2018 dishonesty was much more scripted he used serial lying as a deliberate strategy in the midterm elections. … Trump’s 2017 dishonesty tended to be impromptu ad-libbing. By 2018, it was 8.3 false claims per day. “In 2017, Trump averaged 2.9 false claims per day. Click to subscribe!Īs CNN’s Daniel Dale noted in a lookback piece of four years of fact-checking Trump: THE POINT - NOW ON YOUTUBE! In each episode of his weekly YouTube show, Chris Cillizza will delve a little deeper into the surreal world of politics. His first 100 days was the most truthful period of time during his entire presidency. And then consider this: Trump’s pace of mistruths – and outright lies – rapidly picked up as his term went on. “After four years of a presidency that swamped Americans with a gusher of false and misleading claims, the Joe Biden era has offered a return to a more typical pattern when it comes to a commander in chief and his relationship with the facts – one that features frequent spin and obfuscation or exaggeration, with the occasional canard,” concluded the Post’s Glenn Kessler, Adrian Blanco and Tyler Remmel. Which, if you do the math, means that Trump said more than seven times as many misleading or outright false things than Biden did during the critical first 100 days of each of their presidencies. Biden made 67 false or misleading claims in that period as compared to Trump’s 511, according to the Post’s tally. ![]() Which brings me to a new analysis from The Washington Post’s Fact Checker blog – breaking down the false and misleading claims made by both Trump and current President Joe Biden in their first 100 days in office. Or put more simply: How incredibly abnormal the last four years were when compared to, well, every other modern presidency. Let’s look to the future – and all that.īut it’s important to keep reminding ourselves of the various ways in which Trump sough to fundamentally undermine and redefine the presidency. With Donald Trump’s presidency in the rear-view mirror, there’s a natural human tendency to sort of forget about what he did to the nation’s highest office. ![]()
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