During and after
his term as
President of the United States,
Donald Trump made tens of thousands of false or misleading claims.
The Washington Post's fact-checkers documented 30,573 false or misleading claims during his presidential term, an average of about 21 per day.
[1][5][6][7] The
Toronto Star tallied 5,276
false claims from January 2017 to June 2019, an average of 6 per day.
[2] Commentators and
fact-checkers have described the scale of Trump's
mendacity as "unprecedented" in American politics,
[13] and the consistency of falsehoods a distinctive part of his business and political identities.
[14] Scholarly analysis of Trump's tweets found "significant evidence" of an intent to deceive.
[15]