Donald Trump has uttered 10,000 lies since taking office in January 2017, it was reported on Monday.
According to The Washington Post‘s fact-checkers, Trump reached the mark on April 26, which means he has averaged eight falsehoods per day throughout the course of the past 827 days. As of Monday, Trump hit 10,111 lies.
Last May, Trump hit 3,000 fibs since becoming president, which means his lying has increased substantially over the last year. The figures appear unbelievable, but Trump has truly reached an unprecedented level of lying through his false statements in public speeches like the State of the Union, at events like rallies, and in comments to the press and on Twitter.
In his first 100 days in office, Trump lied on average five times per day. It’s also worth nothing that since the 2018 midterm elections and the fall-out of special counsel Robert Mueller‘s report on the Russia investigation, the president’s falsehoods have dramatically skyrocketed.
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