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Well, we're halfway to proving this objectively. There's a pretty thorough database of lies told during the Trump presidency, captured here: https://www.washin
by strgcmc 3y ago
Well, we're halfway to proving this objectively. There's a pretty thorough database of lies told during the Trump presidency, captured here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claim...
There is no identical dataset for other presidents (generally because they haven't lied enough at this level to warrant a dedicated database), but luckily, you can see that Trump's lie count goes up at a fairly steady rate week-to-week/month-to-month (i.e. there's no stretch of time where he stopped lying), so a little project for you would be:
- Go back to any other modern day president from the past 50 or so years, whoever you'd like to compare
- Pick 1 week or 1 month randomly, and pull up all their public statements or press coverage
- Then count the # of lies for that week or month, and extrapolate a comparison
I think you'll quickly find that it does not compare to Trump's overall average rate of 21 documented public facing lies per day (obviously we are not able to count private conversations).