False or misleading statements by Donald Trump
Donald Trump has made tens of thousands of misleading statements since he became President of the United States. Fact-checkers at The Washington Post found 30,573 false or misleading claims in his first term. This is an average of 20.9 per day.[1] Steve Bannon was the CEO for Trump's 2016 campaign. He said the press was Trump's main adversary (enemy) and that he could deal with them through "flood[ing] the zone with shit."[4] Here, flooding the zone means making so many false statements that people do not know which one to focus on. This means there is not very much trouble for Trump over a single lie.
References
[change | change source]- 1 2 "Analysis | Tracking all of President Trump's false or misleading claims". Washington Post. Retrieved 2025-10-10.
- ↑ Subramaniam, Daniel Dale,Tara (2020-03-09). "Donald Trump made 115 false claims in the last two weeks of February | CNN Politics". CNN. Retrieved 2025-10-10.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑ Chief, Daniel Dale Washington Bureau (2019-06-05). "Donald Trump has now said more than 5,000 false things as president". Toronto Star. Retrieved 2025-10-10.
- ↑ Illing, Sean (2020-01-16). ""Flood the zone with shit": How misinformation overwhelmed our democracy". Vox. Retrieved 2025-10-10.
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