The “Truth” of President Donald Trump

April 7, 2019 

The “Truth” of President Donald Trump

This document contains an accounting of a large number of false statements made by President Trump. If it turned out that everything he said was false, then what would that tell us about the truth?

"But again, I'll speak to attorneys -- I can only say this, there was absolutely no collusion. Everybody knows it. Every committee -- I've been in office now for 11 months. For 11 months, they've had this phony cloud over this administration, over our government. And it has hurt our government. It does hurt our government. It's a Democrat hoax that was brought up as an excuse for losing an election that frankly the Democrats should have won because they have such a tremendous advantage in the electoral college.”

If you put the above quote into context with almost everything else President Trump says (see numerous examples below), then what is President Trump actually saying about “no collusion”?

VERY BEST ECONOMY EVER

“We’ve accomplished an economic turnaround of historic proportions,” Trump said in a July 2018 Rose Garden press conference.

“Just as I promised the American People from this podium 11 months ago, we enacted the biggest tax cuts and reform in American history,” Trump said in his January State of the Union.

"When I was campaigning, I was talking about 18 and 20 years (when) wages effectively went down. Now, for the first time in a long time, they're starting to go up for people."

"Watch those GDP numbers. We started off at a very low number, and right now we hit a 3.2 (percent). Nobody thought that was possible."

“Big steel is opening and renovating plants all over the country. Auto companies are pouring into the U.S., including BMW, which just announced a major new plant,” Trump tweeted in November.

Under the North American Free Trade Agreement, "we lost millions of jobs."

VERY GREAT HEALTH CARE

"We’re making (Medicare) stronger. We’re making Social Security stronger."

"The Democrat plan would just obliterate Medicare and terminate Medicare Advantage ... seniors who have been paying for this for years (and) will not be taken care of anymore."

“All Republicans support people with pre-existing conditions, and if they don't, they will after I speak to them," Trump tweeted in October. "I am in total support."

VERY HORRIBLE SPECIAL COUNSEL INVESTIGATION

“There was no crime,” the President said in November 2018 from the White House. “We’ve wasted enough time on this witch hunt,” he said weeks later.

Says the Steele dossier "was responsible for starting" Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into links between the Trump campaign and Russia.

Says James Clapper said "that the FBI was spying on (Trump's) campaign."

VERY STRONG ON IMMIGRATION

Says there’s "never (been) so many apprehensions ever in our history."

Says of immigrant family separations at the border, "we had the exact same policy as the Obama administration."

“Remember this: President Obama separated children from families," Trump said in November 2018.

A"catch and release" immigration policy "is a Democrat rule, Sherrod Brown, this is a Democrat rule."

"We are not even into February and the cost of illegal immigration so far this year is $18,959,495,168. Cost Friday was $603,331,392. There are at least 25,772,342 illegal aliens, not the 11,000,000 that have been reported for years, in our Country."

VERY BIGGEST AND BEST BORDER WALL EVER BUILT BY MAN

"The Democrats want to invite caravan after caravan of illegal aliens into our country. And they want to sign them up for free health care, free welfare, free education, and for the right to vote."

"Every single Democrat in the U.S. Senate has signed up for the open borders, and it's a bill, it's called the ‘open borders bill.’"

Says the United States loses "250 Billion Dollars a year on illegal immigration, not including the terrible drug flow. Top Border Security, including a Wall, is $25 Billion. Pays for itself in two months."

"At the request of Democrats, it will be a steel barrier rather than a concrete wall."

"When I say Mexico is going to pay for the wall, that's what I said. Mexico is going to pay. I didn't say they're going to write me a check for $20 billion or $10 billion."

“We’re building the wall as we speak,” the president said on Fox News in October 2018. “MEXICO IS PAYING FOR THE WALL,” he tweeted on Dec. 13. "We are already building and renovating many miles of Wall, some complete," he tweeted on Christmas Eve.

"Mexico is paying for the Wall through the new USMCA Trade Deal."

"The border city of El Paso, Texas, used to have extremely high rates of violent crime — one of the highest in the country, and considered one of our nation's most dangerous cities. Now, immediately upon its building, with a powerful barrier in place, El Paso is one of the safest cities in our country."

VERY DEVASTATING CALIFORNIA WILD FIRES CAUSED BY CALIFORNIANS

California’s deadly wildfires "would never happen" with "proper Forest Management."

"There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor."

"California wildfires are being magnified & made so much worse by the bad environmental laws which aren’t allowing massive amount of readily available water to be properly utilized. It is being diverted into the Pacific Ocean."

VERY BAD PUERTO RICO HURRICANE WASN’T THAT BAD

"Puerto Rico got 91 Billion Dollars for the hurricane, more money than has ever been gotten for a hurricane before."

Says 3,000 people "did not die" in two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico. That death toll estimate was "done by Democrats."

TRUMP’S VERY UNIFYING MESSAGES TO DEMOCRATS

"The Democrat(ic) position on abortion is now so extreme that they don’t mind executing babies AFTER birth."

“The truth is that the centrist Democratic Party is dead. The new Democrats are radical socialists who want to model America’s economy after Venezuela. If Democrats win control of Congress this November, we will come dangerously closer to socialism in America. Government-run health care is just the beginning,” the president wrote in an opinion article in October.

Says Sen. Richard Blumenthal said he served in Vietnam in "Da Nang Province. Soldiers dying left and right as we battled up the hill." And "then he cried when (the press) caught him."

"The Electoral College is much more advantageous for Democrats."

PRESIDENT TRUMP’S VERY STRONG FLAIR FOR STATISTICS

"Wow, highest Poll Numbers in the history of the Republican Party. That includes Honest Abe Lincoln and Ronald Reagan."

"In the House, Republicans dramatically outperformed historical precedents."

Says Republicans "just passed" the Veterans Choice program after 44 years of trying. "They've been trying to pass that one for many, many decades."

 "Many presidents don’t get the chance to put a Supreme Court justice on."

Says he didn't cancel a political rally because after Sept. 11, "the New York Stock Exchange was open the following day."

"Only fools, or worse, are saying that our money losing Post Office makes money with Amazon. THEY LOSE A FORTUNE, and this will be changed."

"You take Pulse nightclub. If you had one person in that room that could carry a gun and knew how to use it, it wouldn’t have happened, or certainly to the extent that it did."

"We got $6 billion for opioid and getting rid of that scourge that’s taking over our country. And the numbers are way down."

"58,000 non-citizens voted in Texas, with 95,000 non-citizens registered to vote."

Says that at Beto O’Rourke’s rally in El Paso, there were "200 people, 300 people."

VERY FINE EXPERTISE IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Says North Korea has "agreed to denuclearization."

In Japan, "they take a bowling ball from 20 feet up in the air and they drop it on the hood of the car. And if the hood dents, then the car doesn't qualify...It's horrible, the way we're treated."

“My administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country,” Trump told the United Nations in September 2018 address.

“When people or countries come in to raid the great wealth of our Nation, I want them to pay for the privilege of doing so...We are right now taking in $billions in Tariffs. MAKE AMERICA RICH AGAIN,” Trump wrote in a December 2018 tweet.

GERMANY IS BETTER RUN BY THE VERY GREAT TRUMP FAMILY

"I mean, Germany, honestly, is not paying their fair share. I have great respect for Angela and I have great respect for their country," the president said of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. "My father is German. Right? Was German. And born in a very wonderful place in Germany, and so I have a great feeling for Germany."

"Crime in Germany is way up."

CAN IT GET VERY MUCH BETTER THAN THIS?

"I will be phenomenal to the women. I mean, I want to help women."

"I have watched ICE liberate towns from the grasp of MS-13."