Why Trump Is the Most Fact-Checked President
Americans have never seen this level of truth-bending come out of the Oval Office.
Editor’s Note: This article is one of 50 in a series about Trump's first two years as president.
It’s astounding even now, two years into Donald Trump’s presidency, how many things he says on a daily basis that just aren’t true.
Here are some of the president’s most frequent falsehoods: U.S. Steel is opening six plants (it’s not); Barack Obama’s administration had the same policy as Trump’s of separating children from adults at the border (it didn’t); Trump signed the largest tax cut in history (Ronald Reagan, among others, (this is false); the building of a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border is well under way (nope). None of this is true.
