We all knew he was lying about the Reflecting Pool. The problem is that he lies so often that it’s almost impossible to keep up.

So I asked AI to compile claims from just the past twenty-four months and then checked them against official data, contemporaneous reporting and independent fact-checks.

Here is a partial list of 86 lies:
1. He promised to bring prices down “starting on Day One.” Grocery prices remained high and continued rising.
2. After winning, he admitted that prices are very hard to bring down once they have gone up.
3. He said egg prices had fallen 93 percent. They had not fallen remotely close to 93 percent.
4. He said he inherited the highest inflation in American history. He inherited an annual inflation rate of 2.9 percent.
5. When corrected, he changed the claim to the worst inflation in 49 years. That was also false. Annual inflation reached 23.7 percent in 1920.
6. He said there was virtually no inflation during his first term. Consumer prices rose approximately 8 percent.
7. He repeatedly claimed he had already brought inflation down, including during periods when the annual inflation rate was higher than the 2.9 percent reported shortly before he took office.
8. He told Congress inflation was “plummeting.” Prices were still rising overall, including major household expenses such as housing, electricity and medical care.
9. He claimed to have secured $18 trillion in new investment.
10. He then raised the figure to $19.2 trillion.
11. Even the White House’s own tracker listed far less, and its total included multiyear pledges, purchasing agreements, previously announced projects and commitments that might never become actual US investment.
12. He said America was building more factories than ever.
13. He said factory construction was rising.
14. He said the country had achieved its highest growth ever. Manufacturing employment declined, factory-construction claims depended on cherry-picked categories, and economic growth was nowhere near a historical record.
15. He called the country he inherited a dead country. The US economy grew 2.8 percent in 2024, faster than every other major wealthy economy except Spain.
16. He says foreign countries pay his tariffs. American importers pay them and frequently pass the cost on to American consumers.
17. He said the evidence overwhelmingly showed consumers did not pay his tariffs. Economic studies found that American consumers and businesses absorbed nearly all their cost.
18. He said tariff revenue came with “no inflation.” Prices continued rising, and economic research found that the tariffs themselves increased costs for American consumers and businesses.
19. He repeatedly said drug prices were down 70, 80 or 90 percent. No broad measure of prescription-drug prices showed anything close to those reductions.
20. He said Medicaid was “left the same.” The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the legislation would reduce federal Medicaid spending by roughly $930 billion over ten years.
21. He said Americans were “not going to feel any of it.” The Congressional Budget Office projected that the legislation would leave approximately 11.8 million more people uninsured.
22. He said the Medicaid changes touched only waste, fraud and abuse. Independent analyses found that the legislation reduced coverage and federal spending far beyond fraudulent claims.
23. He said he had eliminated taxes on Social Security. The law created a temporary deduction, unavailable to many beneficiaries, that expires after 2028. It did not abolish taxation of Social Security benefits.
24. He said taxes would rise 68 percent without his bill. No credible independent estimate came close to supporting that figure.
25. He then declared, “I’ve kept all my promises and much more.”
26. He publicly promised at least 53 times to end the Ukraine war within 24 hours, or even before taking office.
Continued in replies… 27. After failing to do so, he said the promise had been sarcastic or made in jest. Fifty-three times of sarcasm.
28. He claimed Ukraine started the war. Russia invaded Ukraine.
29. He used inflated and inconsistent figures to claim America had contributed vastly more to Ukraine than Europe. On total aid allocated by European countries and European Union institutions collectively, Europe had contributed more.
30. He said Russia failed to take Kyiv because its forces avoided the highways. The article he cited described Russian forces invading along the highways.
31. He repeatedly said Biden gave Ukraine $350 billion. That conflated the full cost of Ukraine-related appropriations with money and equipment actually delivered to Ukraine.
32. Official figures for direct military assistance were a fraction of his claim.
33. After repeatedly saying the earlier strikes had “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear program, he later took the country to war over the continuing threat posed by that same program.
34. An early assessment by the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency concluded that the strikes had set the program back rather than destroyed it.
35. He presented the war as necessary to stop an impending Iranian attack. Pentagon officials told Congress they had not identified evidence that Iran was preparing an imminent attack on the United States.
36. He said half the world might have been eradicated without his intervention. His own intelligence director had testified that Iran had not made a decision to build a nuclear weapon.
37. Nine days into the war, he declared, “We’ve already won.” The fighting continued.
38. On May 1, he formally notified Congress that US hostilities with Iran had “terminated,” even though the broader military confrontation and US operations continued.
39. He said the war was going “swimmingly” as it ground on.
40. He repeatedly declared total victory and then issued new threats against Iran, sometimes contradicting himself within a single day.
41. On June 1, he said he did not care whether negotiations were over. The same day, he posted that talks were continuing at a rapid pace.
42. His administration insisted that continuing military operations did not constitute legally relevant “hostilities,” allowing it to argue that the War Powers deadline no longer applied.
43. He said Iran’s leaders were all gone and “everything” was gone. In the same meeting, he acknowledged that Iran still possessed missiles and drones.
44. He repeatedly claimed Iran’s military capabilities had been entirely eradicated. They had not.
45. He now says Iran has been denuclearized, even though he made essentially the same “obliterated” claim after the earlier strikes and later said Iran remained dangerous enough to justify another war.