This site is dedicated to documenting the thousands of lies purveyed by Donald Trump during and after his presidency and into his second term.

We are in the process of building it— please send any suggestions for additional content to ctvolunteers2032@gmail.com

We seek to build a community of practice around fact-checking this administration and drawing attention to their use of falsehoods and blatant distortions to advance their destruction fo the federal government.

Visit our Fact Checker page to see who is working to uphold the truth.

This site is maintained by CT Volunteers, a federal Political Action Committee located in New Haven, Connecticut. Contact us at ctvolunteers2032@gmail.com.

About Fact Checking as a Practice

This article from the Tech Policy Press lays out the rationale for fact checking and debunks three myths about the practice.

“Some Facts About Fact-Checking: Defending the Imperfect Search for Truth in an Era of Institutionalized Lying” by Paul M. Barrett

Politifact

Documentation of Trump’s latest lies here.

Full explanation of his lie about the 60 minutes interview with Kamala Harris is here.

FactCheck.org

Trump archive at FactCheck.org— a project of The Annenberg Public Policy Center

Washington Post

Washington Post about his over 30,000 lies and misleading statements during his term (access here)

Here is a story from Nov 6, 2024 on “What I Learned from Nine Years of Fact Checking Donald Trump” - ( behind pay wall)

The Washington Post fact checkers wrote a book in 2020 called “Donald Trump and His Assault on Truth: The President's Falsehoods, Misleading Claims and Flat-Out Lies” Buy it here.

NPR

NPR story documenting 162 lies and distoprtions in one new conference (access here).

New Republic

New Republic article on “mindblowing” number of lies (access here).

Rueters

The Rueters Fact check team did a piece on January 6 claims:

“Fact Check: US Capitol attack rioters had weapons, including firearms” Jan 16, 2025

SNOPES

Snopes did a thorough piece debunking Jan 6 claims that police waived the crowd into the Capitol. HERE by Jordan Liles

“Did Video Show Capitol Police Waving in Rioters on Jan. 6?”

The actual videos can be viewed at the Hunting Insurrectionists YouTube Channel here.

Wikipedia Entry on Trump’s False and Misleading Statements

Wikipedia Entry on his lies (access here).

With a list of credible sources, the Wikipedia page states no other president has lied as blatantly to the American people as Trump and his administration. With a detailed summary of his early business career and dealings, the page outlines the depth of pathological lying that has gone on for years.

“Commentators and fact-checkers have described the scale of Trump’s mendacity as ‘unprecedented’ in American politics, and the consistency of falsehoods a distinctive part of his business and political identities," a portion of the Wikipedia page reads. "Scholarly analysis of Trump’s tweets found ‘significant evidence’ of an intent to deceive."

Wikipedia charts of Trumps false or misleading claims (access here).

Top chart is from the Washington Post, the bottom from the Toronto Star.

The Washington Post fact-checker created a new category of falsehoods in 2018, the "Bottomless Pinocchio," for falsehoods repeated at least twenty times (so often "that there can be no question the politician is aware his or her facts are wrong"). Trump was the only politician who met the standard of the category, with 14 statements that immediately qualified. According to The Washington Post, Trump repeated some falsehoods so many times he had effectively engaged in disinformation.^[17] Glenn Kessler wrote:

The president keeps going long after the facts are clear, in what appears to be a deliberate effort to replace the truth with his own, far more favorable, version of it. He is not merely making gaffes or misstating things, he is purposely injecting false information into the national conversation.^[17]

References

For Washington Post Chart

Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly (October 14, 2019). "President Trump has made 13,435 false or misleading claims over 993 days". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on November 1, 2019.

Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly, (December 16, 2019). "President Trump has made 15,413 false or misleading claims over 1,055 days". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on December 17, 2019.

Tubb, Ed (June 5, 2019). "Washington bureau chief Daniel Dale does his last Trump fact check for the Toronto Star". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on June 9, 2019.

Toronto Star

(2019). "Daniel Dale / Reporter (profile)". CNN. Archived from the original on September 2, 2019.

Kessler, Glenn; Rizzo, Salvador; Kelly, Meg (January 20, 2020). "President Trump made 16,241 false or misleading claims in his first three years". The Washington Post.

Kessler, Glen; Rizzo, Salvador; Kelly, Meg (April 14, 2020). "President Trump made 18,000 false or misleading claims in 1,170 days". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on April 15, 2020.

Kessler, Glen; Rizzo, Salvador; Kelly, Meg (June 2, 2020). "The central feature of Trump’s presidency: False claims and disinformation". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on June 4, 2020.

Kessler, Glenn; Rizzo, Salvador; Kelly, Meg (July 13, 2020). "President Trump has made more than 20,000 false or misleading claims". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on July 13, 2020.

Blake, Meredith, (October 30, 2020). "Trump makes so many false claims, CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale has lost count". The Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on October 30, 2020. — Dale reports that because Trump was talking so much in advance of the November 3, 2020 presidential election, Dale in September 2020 stopped keeping tallies of all Trump's statements, to allow Dale to "just focus on the big stuff".

Kessler, Glenn (January 23, 2021). "Trump made 30,573 false or misleading claims as president. Nearly half came in his final year.". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2021-01-24. Retrieved on 2021-01-24.

For Toronto Star chart

Dale, Daniel (June 5, 2019). "Donald Trump has now said more than 5,000 false things as president". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on October 3, 2019.

Dale, Daniel (January 6, 2020). "Internal chart of Trump's false claims per day from July 8 (2019)". CNN. Archived from the original on 2020-01-06. Retrieved on 2020-01-07. (image of chart).

Dale, Daniel (March 9, 2020). "Trump is averaging about 59 false claims per week since ... July 8, 2019.". CNN. Archived from the original on 2020-03-09. Retrieved on 2020-04-15. (direct image of chart)