Trump claims his bombing of Iran “completely and totally obliterated” its key nuclear enrichment facilities.But theU.S. Defense Intelligence Agency reported that the bombs did not destroy the core components of the country’s nuclear program and likely set it back by months. Whom should we believe? Well, let’s take look.
Trump also claimed the ceasefire would last “forever.” Hours after the ceasefire deadline, the two nations continued lobbing missiles at each other.
Trump promised ‘90 new trade deals by July 9. So far none have been signed – only general frameworks for further negotiations with the UK and a rare earth deal with China and a framework to guide negotiations in their ongoing tariff dispute.
In 2016, Trump promised to win trade wars with other countries. Yet he abandoned the Transpacific Partnership with eleven Pacific Rim countries that excluded China. It would have eliminated 18,000 tariffs on American-made goods and agricultural products representing 40% of global GDP. China jumped in and filled the vacuum with their own deal with all those countries and excluded the U.S.
2018 Trump promised his tax cuts “will be revenue-neutral when you add revenues from economic growth because we’re going to have magnificent growth.” Economic growth fell way short of the lost tax revenues and widened the 2018 deficit to $779 billion, the highest in six years.
He promised that he alone could denuclearize North Korea. After the Hanoi Summit with North Korea’s leader, Trump claimed North Korea started to denuclearize. The truth: North Korea resumed building its arsenal to sixty nuclear weapons, including one that can reach the U.S.
Trump promised to drain the swamp, but more than 18 of his appointees and cronies were arrested and/or jailed for lying to the FBI, soliciting foreign meddling in U.S. elections, fraud, battery, or child pornography.
Trump even lied to his own supporters, misrepresenting that their donations would fund legal challenges to overturn the 2020 election, while nearly all went to his PAC, which he can use to pay family members, finance expensive events and travel.
Trump promised to make attendees of Trump University rich by teaching them the secrets to success in real estate. It took a federal judge to force him to pay the attendees $25 million for defrauding them.
By the end of his first term, “Trump had accumulated 30,573 untruths— averaging about 21 erroneous claims a day.”
Since taking off he’s added thousands more outrageous lies, including that:
- Grocery prices “are WAY DOWN.” Grocery prices had increased since he took office.
- The cost of eggs has come down like 93, 94% since we took office.” The consumer price of eggs hit a record high in March,
- The US was already taking in $2 billion, $3 billion, or even $3.5 billion per day in tariff revenue. The actual figure was in the hundreds of millions at most, and it’s nearly all paid by the consumer – not by the exporting country as Trump’s claimed.
- When not a single tariff deal had been made, he bragged “I’ve made 200 deals.”
- Ukraine started the war with Russia,
- Foreign leaders “all over the world” emptied their jails and mental health facilities to “dump” their people into the US.
- He thwarted the Biden administration’s plan to spend $100 million on condoms for Hamas in Gaza (no, you read that correctly).
- There was “peace all over the world” when I left office in 2021. No, there were dozens of active armed conflicts at the time.
- Canada buys almost none take our agricultural products.” No, Canada was the world’s second-largest buyer of US agricultural exports in 2024, purchasing about $28.4 billion worth.
- I “got rid of” ISIS in “three weeks.” ISIS was fully liberated more than two years into Trump’s presidency, and continues to operate today.
- China is operating the Panama Canal.” It isn’t,
- Europe “doesn’t take our farm products.” The EU was the fourth-largest buyer of US agricultural exports in 2024.
These are only a few of about 35,000 lies he’s told us. Why would anyone believe that bombing of Iran “completely and totally obliterated” its nuclear enrichment facilities when the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency says it didn’t? Or how can we believe anything he says? It’s possible that he believes his fictions are real because he’s a sociopath who convinces himself that one’s lies are the truth.
