In the second term, Trump exceeds his first term's average number of lies each day

Sep 30: President Trump repeatedly lied to the US military’s generals and admirals today.

Trump is now lying at a higher rate in his second term at approximately 25 a day; he produced 30,573 false or misleading claims during his first presidential term, an average of 21 per day.

Daniel Dale @ddale8 

And many of his false claims were on the subject of the military. Details at the link below, but in summary:

- It’s not true Biden never said “we have the strongest military"

- It’s not true Trump has ended "seven" wars

- It’s not true Trump got NATO's defense spending target “up to 2(%) in my last term" from a previous 1%

- It’s not true Biden said upon taking office that “we can get rid of” Space Force

- It’s not true Washington DC was the country’s most dangerous city before Trump deployed the National Guard

- It’s not true that Portland “is burning down"

- It’s not true Biden gave Ukraine "$350 billion"

- It’s not true that “the Congo” “opened up prisons” to send criminals to the US as migrants

- It’s not true the US had "300,000" drug deaths last year

- It's not true Biden allowed in “25 million” migrants

- It’s not true the 2020 election was “rigged"

- It's not true that a judge in the AP's ongoing lawsuit over Trump’s retaliation against the news service for continuing to use the name “Gulf of Mexico” declared that “the name is the Gulf of America” or that the AP’s decision to call it the Gulf of Mexico is “not appropriate"-

It’s not true that CNN turned off its camera when Trump criticized CNN during the speech

https://t.co/qrV1EBwrei

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Duck.ai:

Comparison Table

Category	First Term (2016-2020)	Second Term (2021-Present)
Total False Statements	30,573	Data suggests similar rates
Average per Day	20.9	Estimated to be around 25
Major Topics	Immigration, Economy, Healthcare	Immigration, Tariffs, Infrastructure
Fact-Checked Sources	Washington Post, CNN, PolitiFact	Washington Post, PBS, Various AI Models

“I have no idea what Project 2025 is.” ~ Trump, Oct 31, 2024

A political media apparatus either full of suckers or accomplices willing to gobble up absolute garbage about Trump “distancing himself from” Project 2025.

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— Erick Fernandez (@erickfernandez.bsky.social) Oct 2, 2025 at 11:55 AM

She called it. The media blew it by letting a serial liar off the hook

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— The Tennessee Holler  (@thetnholler.bsky.social) Oct 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM

🔥 Yes! More on Howard Lutnick
blowing away the Trump regime's LIES about #Epstein on a podcast. @timmiller.bsky.social & Nicolle Wallace go over the unreal stupidity of Lutnick to tell the truth about his friend, blackmailer, & pedophile sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

📺 youtu.be/U4JGoT_lNFM?...

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— Pam Spaulding (@pamspaulding.bsky.social) Oct 3, 2025 at 1:06 AM