Here's a little thread on how Trump has abandoned one lie about immigration in favour of the complete opposite lie.
You might remember that Trump used to regularly claim that he was “down 78 per cent at the border” or some such thing. Here’s one example, from Nov. 20, 2017: 
He was referring to apprehensions on the southwest border, which is used as a metric for how many unauthorized immigrants are coming to the country: the lower the number of people apprehended, the lower the total number. So lower is seen as better.
In reality, apprehensions were down a bunch last year, but never 78 per cent. Depending on the month, it was sometimes down between 50 and 60 per cent from a year prior.
…but then, this year, there was a major spike in border crossings, so Trump couldn’t accurately claim any decline at all. He still lied for a while anyway, but then he just stopped talking about this. Untiiil...
...now, he is trying something new: claiming that he is setting *a record for border apprehensions*. A record high.
In other words: he used to claim success because of how low the numbers were, now he's claiming success because of how high the numbers are.
In other words: he used to claim success because of how low the numbers were, now he's claiming success because of how high the numbers are.
Here's what he said at his Missouri rally on Friday:
As you may have predicted, there was no apprehension record last month. It had fewer apprehensions than six months in his own term and many months in previous presidents' terms.
But that is how Donald Trump went from saying that he is great because of how few of something there were to saying that he is great because of how many of that same thing there now are. /end
