WASHINGTON – US President Donald Trump has made 1,950 false or misleadingclaims during the first 347 days of his time in the White House, accordingto a new report.
With a little more than two weeks from completing his first year in office,the Republican head of state is on the track to break the 2,000barrier, The Washington Post reported Monday, citing its own fact-checks.
According to the report, Trump, who has a tendency to repeat some of hisstatements, has made at least 60 claims that he has repeated three or moretimes.
However, at a rate of 61 times, the president’s most repeated misstatementswere about his predecessor Barack Obama’s healthcare law, or the Obamacare,as well as his claims about events or business decisions that happenedbefore his election.
Apparently, Trump has claimed 61 times that the Obamacare is dying and“essentially dead.” This is while, according to the Congressional BudgetOffice, while the Obamacare exchanges are suffering from a range of issues,they are not imploding and are likely to stay stable for the upcomingfuture.
Trump made repealing the Obamacare a pillar of his campaign. However, hisefforts have been met with heavy opposition in Congress. He managed toremove the individual mandate recently by including it in a major taxreform bill.
The president has also taken credit 61 times for business investments andjob announcements that had been previously announced.
The Republican tax plan is also moving up rapidly on the list as one ofTrump’s major talking points. The businessman-turned-politician has said 53times that his tax cut is the biggest in US history while official TreasuryDepartment data rank it at only eighth place.
He has also wrongly claimed 25 times that the US has the highest corporatetaxes and 33 times that it is one of the highest-taxed nations, the reportcontinued.
An astonishing 85 times, Trump has celebrated a rise in the stock market —even though in the campaign he repeatedly said it was a “bubble” that wasready to crash as soon as the Federal Reserve started raising interestrates.