When Donald Trump announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for president, he embarked on a mission that immediately sought to exalt himself, insult and disparage his critics, and reduce the intellectual tenor of American politics to the level of remedial third grade bullies.
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Now, after five months it has become clear that, more than anything else, Trump seems determined to break all records for blatant dishonesty and promulgation of outright lies. The sheer quantity of falsehoods, whether born of purpose or ignorance, has shattered any previous attempt to mislead by a political charlatan. There is a distinct pathological urgency to his disgorging deceptions. And his refusal to ever concede a point or to apologize, even when confronted with irrefutable evidence, is a reflection of his tunnel-blind, Olympic-grade Narcissism.
As a result of the rapidly expanding incidence of Trump's daily forays into fiction, it has become necessary to initiate a catalog in order to keep track of his doublespeak. It is a formidable task considering the breadth of his deceit. But without such a resource it will be impossible to manage. Hopefully this will be useful for those wishing to document the brazenly disreputable utterances of The Donald. It will be appended as he necessary, and contributions are welcome in comments. So without further ado...
Donald Trump's Bullshitopedia
Trump said that 100 black pastors would endorse him.
Trump said he didn't mock, or even know, the reporter whose disabilities he mocked and knew for a decade.
Says crime statistics show blacks kill 81 percent of white homicide victims.
Trump: "I watched in Jersey City, N.J., where thousands and thousands of people were cheering" as the World Trade Center collapsed.
People on the terrorism watch are already prohibited from buying guns.
Thirteen Syrian refugees were “caught trying to get into the U.S.” but actually surrendered at the border seeking asylum.
Trump denied saying that he supported a database of Muslims.
The federal government is sending refugees to states with governors who are "Republicans, not to the Democrats."
The Trans-Pacific Partnership "was designed for China to come in, as they always do, through the back door and totally take advantage of everyone."
The Obama administration wants to admit 250,000 Syrian refugees.
He was on 60 Minutes with Vladimir Putin and “got to know him very well.”
Climate change is a hoax invented by the Chinese.
Says his plan would cut taxes without increasing the deficit.
"I never said that" Marco Rubio was Mark Zuckerberg’s personal senator.
His criticism of Ford prompted the company to move a factory from Mexico to Ohio.
Says Bernie Sanders is going to "tax you people at 90 percent."
Trump said that "We have the highest tax rate anywhere in the world."
Among Syrian refugees, "there aren't that many women, there aren't that many children."
The unemployment rate may be as high as "42 percent."
Trump: The birther movement was started by Hillary Clinton in 2008. She was all in!
Said he was never interested in opening a casino in Florida.
Says Mexico doesn't have birthright citizenship, and Americans are the "only ones" to have it.
Under the Iran deal: "If Israel attacks Iran … we’re supposed to be on Iran’s side."
Vaccines cause autism.
He never said the stuff Megyn Kelly accused him of saying in the first debate.
Trump says that "The Mexican government ... they send the bad ones over."
The number of illegal immigrants in the United States is "30 million, it could be 34 million."
Trump: If you're from Syria and you're a Christian, you cannot come into this country" as a refugee.
Says his book, The Art of the Deal, is "the No. 1 selling business book of all time."
Trump: The last quarter, it was just announced, our gross domestic product … was below zero. Who ever heard of this? It's never below zero.
Trump: The Islamic State just built a hotel in Syria.
Says President Barack Obama’s recent New York fundraising trip cost between $25 million and $50 million.
ObamaCare enrollment lie: Obama counts an enrollee as a web user putting a plan in ‘their online shopping carts.’
President Obama has spent over $2 million in legal fees defending lawsuits about his birth certificate.
The people that went to school with (Obama), they never saw him, they don't know who he is.
To be continued...
The fact that Trump still manages to attract supporters who are willing to look past his shameless mendacity, and worse, to revere him as a quasi-savior, is a frightening testament to the decline of American democracy. These are people who not only submit blissfully to being lied to, they embrace a philosophy of bigotry, division, fear, and the authoritarian strains of fascism. They have abandoned whatever tendencies they may have had toward freedom, in favor of a despot who reeks of false and unattainable promises of security and prosperity. It is the behavior of cultists who have given in to mindless discipleship and have lost the ability to discern fantasy from reality. It's a learned response that has been ingrained from watching way too much Fox News.
[Notes: Many of the links above are form PolitiFact. They maintain a file on Trump that presently shows he has 44 "false" or "Pants on Fire" statements. That represents 62% of the total statements reviewed by PolitiFact. The total number of statements deemed "true" are zero.]