If you didn’t think Donald Trump could be a bigger liar, think again. The Washington Post reports that Trump has picked up the pace from an impressive 4.9 lies—or, as the Post puts it, “false and misleading claims” or simply “Trumpian claims”—per day during his first 100 days in office to a positively blistering 7.6 lies per day at this point, after 558 days in office. And he’s only getting worse: “in June and July, the president averaged 16 claims a day.”
Put another way: In his first year as president, Trump made 2,140 false or misleading claims. Now, just six months later, he has almost doubled that total.
There are nearly 150 different lies that Trump has repeated at least three times—and even if you give Trump the benefit of the doubt, the repetition shows he’s had every opportunity to recognize he’s saying something false and change his ways. (Pause to laugh here.) Instead, he repeats it, and that’s a lie by any standard.
What’s particularly staggering is that though Trump started off lying a huge amount and has now doubled his pace, there’s reason to believe he could double it yet again, given that 16-lies-per-day tally in June and July.
And those are the lies he’s already been caught telling.