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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"I was honored by the man of the year in Michigan," Trump says, but this never happened. He made it
No one challenges him. Trump sits in his Task Force meeting. (I see dr. Brix was there) and he lies about his imaginary man of the year award. No one challenges him publicly. damn
Trump begins his speech at a Ford plant by boasting about winning the "man of the year" award in Michigan. There's just one problem -- he totally made it up. There is no such award. https://factcheck.org/2019/08/trumps
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"I was honored by the man of the year in Michigan," Trump says, but this never happened. He made it up:
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Trumps Dubious Michigan Man of the Year Boast
By Robert Farley Posted on August 22, 2019
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President Donald Trump has claimed no fewer than seven times over the past three years including at a recent rally in New Hampshire that he won Michigans man of the year award. But theres no evidence that he did.
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This is what we did find: It appears that Trump is referring to a 2013 dinner hosted by a county Republican Party organization, which presented him with token gifts including a statuette of Abraham Lincoln. But a former Republican congressman who organized the dinner said Trump did not receive an award, and the group has never given out man of the year awards.
The boast is politically expedient; Michigan is a key swing state in presidential elections. When referencing the award, Trump often notes he was the first Republican presidential candidate to win Michigan since 1988. Trump also often mentions his narrow win in Michigan as critical to his upset victory.
For many many years nobody won Michigan as a Republican, Trump said at the rally in New Hampshire on Aug. 15. But I used to complain and you know I just Id go there and Id say, theyre stealing your car business. I go, for years. In fact, five or six years before I even thought about running, for whatever reason they named me man of the year in Michigan. I said, How come? I didnt even understand it myself. But I was named man of the year. I wasnt even political. That was years before I did this. But I was always complaining that our car business is being stolen.
As we said, its a claim Trump has made repeatedly for years, according to searchable records of Trumps public comments archived by Factba.se.
The earliest mention we could find was during a campaign speech Trump made two days before the election, on Nov. 6, 2016, in Sterling Heights, Michigan.
Ive been fighting for the car industry for years, Trump said. I was honored five years ago, man of the year in Michigan. That was a great honor for me. And during my speech, all I talked about is what Mexico and these other countries are doing to us, and especially what theyre doing to Michigan. Thats all I talked about. And I was criticized. They said, Donald, speak about something else. I said, No, whats happening is horrible. Whats happening is terrible. One of the main reasons I ran for president is to stop it......................
...........The context of Trumps comments at the roundtable in Ypsilanti lends credence to the idea that Trump believes he received an award at the Lincoln Day Dinner in Michigan in 2013 an event at which Trott says Trump was not awarded Michigans man of the year.
Trumps claim is vague enough he hasnt provided an exact year or the name of the organization that supposedly honored him that it makes it nearly impossible to entirely disprove. But the responsibility to back-up political claims rests with the politicians who made them, and in this case, neither the White House nor Trumps presidential campaign has provided any information on the presidents boast. If any such proof ever emerges, well update our story.
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"I was honored by the man of the year in Michigan," Trump says, but this never happened. He made it (Original Post)
riversedge
May 2020
OP
And if someone calls him on that falsehood, he'll resort to his old excuse:
Arkansas Granny
May 2020
#3
"I won it because I actually ate more fast food than anyone else in Michigan that year!"
struggle4progress
May 2020
#6
Rhiannon12866
(206,082 posts)1. Twitter reply :
keithbvadu2
(36,937 posts)2. Trump's fake mag cover that he placed in his clubhouses.
Trump's fake mag cover that he placed in his clubhouses.
Arkansas Granny
(31,532 posts)3. And if someone calls him on that falsehood, he'll resort to his old excuse:
"I don't know. Somebody told me. . . ."
He'll never admit to telling a lie or being wrong. He'll blame someone else.
sarge43
(28,945 posts)5. "Somebody told me ..."
The voices in his head.
Cha
(297,718 posts)4. Sickening Pile of Shit.
struggle4progress
(118,356 posts)6. "I won it because I actually ate more fast food than anyone else in Michigan that year!"