Today I learned there's an amazing Wikipedia article detailing the bullshit that Trump has said over the years
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_or_misleading_statements_by_Donald_Trump
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_or_misleading_statements_by_Donald_Trump
46 Comments
Dave@lemmy.nz · 124 pts · 305d
Haha it's so long there's a suggestion it needs to be broken into multiple pages:
13igTyme@piefed.social · 65 pts · 305d
The poor article starts at his first presidency. Fuck heads been lying everyday since he could talk.
pupbiru@aussie.zone · 0 pts · 305d
HubertManne@piefed.social · 5 pts · 305d
need before first term to.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 63 pts · 305d
Someone like Trump doesn't surprise me ... there are many people in the world that are this dumb and obnoxious. They're everywhere ... he isn't special.
What gets me is that America literally paved the way for him to gain the highest office in their country and the population still sits around complaining about it while doing as little or nothing about it all.
Lucky_777@lemmy.world · 63 pts · 305d
The most shocking thing? MAGA still supports him, even in the face of rising prices, losing benefits and constant lies. A true cult that will be studied for decades
kelpie_returns@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 305d
GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social · 3 pts · 305d
The optimist in me believes this is a statical anomaly in pendulum theory, so it will much more rapidly swing back the other direction. Hopefully to a statical anomaly in the progressive direction.
kelpie_returns@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 305d
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 305d
My MAGA relative shared a meme on FB saying "Border crossings down 93%, gas prices hit a 4 year low, eggs down $1.8 per dozen, inflation down to 1.8%, the Media silent" with absolutely no sources.
They're not living on the same plane of reality. They don't care about the veracity of anything.
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 305d
Right wing memes are true because of the vibes.
Left wing memes are all lies, especially the ones with sources. Because they're bad feelings with icky nasty self reflection.
msage@programming.dev · 8 pts · 305d
Surprise surprise.
Fascists are exactly as dumb as they sound.
They think once every other race, religion and sexual orientation is gone, they will be in heaven.
Not realizing they are digging the other way.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub · 4 pts · 305d
That's not sure. What comes after him might be worse. But for the USA, this is like getting that first heart attack. It's the sign things need to change urgently. Just ignoring it happened and assuming the problem goes away when going back to the old routine is the worst you can do. Without some serious lifetime changes, the next one will be worse.
Unfortunately Democrats are the party is the status quo and Republicans only like to make things right for a very small part of the population. Nothing much will change for the better.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 305d
The "first heart attack" was George W. Bush. You're well past that now.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub · 2 pts · 305d
I'd argue that's more like the shortness of breath, chest pain and nausea that come as the warning signs.
Sundiata@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 305d
so your telling me we're going to get an older president barron trump ordering the CIA to throw american critiques out of windows with 5 gunshots to the back of the head as it gets ruled a suicide?
color me not surprised.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 1 pts · 305d
ok look. am I being fucked up the ass. sure. is it without lubrication. ok yeah. is it repeadately, well yeah. Here is the thing. Alls I have to do is take it until he is all done and then I am told I will get to be one of the ones doing the fucking. So you stupid dummycrats are screwed but one day I will be on top.
voracitude@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 305d
hitstun@feddit.online · 52 pts · 305d
I like how Wikipedia's main issue is that this list has grown too long to read comfortably:
Snowpix@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 305d
It was already considered too long even before his second term! That's absolutely bonkers.
SmokingCookie@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 305d
The PDF version is 159 pages long o.O
stratoscaster@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 304d
100 of those pages are just references lmao
SmokingCookie@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 304d
Yeah, not a bad thing IMO. They're calling him out on his bullshit and have the source material to back up their claims? 11/10 in my book.
stratoscaster@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 304d
Agreed :)
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 305d
One of my "favorites" (not mentioned in the Wiki article) is that in the 1980s Trump offered to pay for the funeral of a child killed by a bear ... and then of course reneged.
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 10 pts · 305d
Why not add it?
Wispy2891@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 305d
21 in average per day? You need to be a professional bullshitter for that, I couldn't do that many
Wytch@lemmy.zip · 26 pts · 305d
The amount of times I've heard over the years from "common sense" folk that old chestnut that all politicians are liars, just makes my head hurt. No Uncle Dylan, I just don't think you can tell the difference between a lie and a half-truth, or even a lie and a fact. That "wisdom" is a hundred+ year old cliche and Trump's popularity proves that those people have never known what a man who is lying if his lips are moving actually looks like.
snek_boi@lemmy.ml · 16 pts · 305d
Totally! I really like that the article explains that Trump doesn't lie, but he bullshits. Apparently the reason is that lying means the liar knows what's true, while a bullshitter doesn't care if the bullshit is true or false. This is one of the reasons Trump is unique.
cdzero@lemmy.ml · 23 pts · 305d
192 pages if printed.
AeonFelis@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 305d
Says 179 when I try (not sure why it's different) but only 47 of them are the actual article - the rest are references.
leftascenter@tarte.nuage-libre.fr · 10 pts · 305d
page count differs between international A4 vs US letter formats.
Tinidril@midwest.social · 17 pts · 305d
I hate that there is still this tiny little voice inside me that says I can show this article to a Trump believer and have it make some kind of difference in how they see Trump.
Hermit_Lailoken@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 305d
Yeah, they will come up with some other bullshit to discredit the source. Likely bullshit espoused by the orange idiot whisperer himself.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 304d
And that's why conservative leaders hate Wikipedia.
It organizes and filters information. Can't have that.
KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 305d
The third sub-heading is simply "Bullshit". The fact that they describe how a "Bullshitter" differs from "Liar" is a TIL for me... I never really thought about it before, but the description here is spot on.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 305d
But isn't he the guy that tells it like it is? That's what his voters always say.
invertedspear@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 305d
When presented with this article they’ll also pass out off as “politicians lie” like his list isn’t miles longer than others.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 305d
Cult deprogramming isn't easy.
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 305d
He has very few voters
frankiehollywood@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 305d
And yet he still is the president of one of the most powerful countries on this planet - twice……
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 7 pts · 305d
He stole the election from a powerful country that isn't a democracy.
This stresses the importance to establish democracies.
rageagainstmachines@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 305d
What about a database containing the names and faces of all of his supporters alike?
Because the clown is the clown, but he'd be nothing without the circus.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 305d
I think it'd work better if we just try to keep the Internet Archive alive. Otherwise nobody will believe the evidence even if you've downloaded it.
rageagainstmachines@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 305d
I support this. But it would also be great for us to capture the content within the walled gardens of Instagram, Facebook, etc.
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz · 9 pts · 305d
There's a big problem in our society: when a ruler lies people get along with it but if a peasant does it they give them shit. Have you not noticed this? If a normal person, a friend, the neighbor, a worker get caught lying they get labelled and people hold a grudge against them for years, but if a politician (red, blue or whatever) tells a lie the same process doesn't apply
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 305d
Most people in the USA:
Valmond@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 305d
It's 748GB
escapedgoat@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 304d
I feel like we could probably get Guinness world records to give him a world record for most lies told in a political career. Maybe they could top it off with the second most to show the disparity since I imagine the second most would be another Republican and an outrageous number, but probably one tenth as many as Donald Trump.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 303d
Trump is worse than a liar. He is a bullshitter. Because at least a liar cares about the truth and attempts to hide it, while the bullshitter does not care whether what they say is true or false.
David Zurawik says we should "just assume Trump's always lying and fact check him backwards" because that's "how to cover a habitual liar."