Trump Topped 8,000 Falsehoods Or Distortions In 2 Years, Fact Checker Says

01/22/2019 07:39 am ET

More than 6,000 of those claims were made during 2018 alone.

By Amy Russo

President Donald Trump racked up more than 8,000 misleading or downright false statements in the first two years of his term, according to a newly released tally.

The Washington Post’s Fact Checker puts the grand total of Trump whoppers from Inauguration Day to Jan. 20, 2019, at 8,158 Pinocchio-worthy statements. Tellingly, more than 6,000 of the falsehoods were made during the last year.

While Trump’s untruths are routine, the increasing numbers foreshadow the next election, The New York Times’ Astead Herndon told CNN on Monday.

“We know when this president comes under pressure, he usually lashes out and every time he leans into kind of his own messaging or off-the-cuff messaging, we get more and more falsehoods,” Herndon said. Trump then uses those distortions “to rile up his base and to whip up votes” for 2020.

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