'Idiotic and Dangerous': Donald Trump Ridiculed for Claiming Global Warming Will Lead to a Michigan Beachfront Property https://okmagazine.com/p/donald-trump-global-warming-ridiculed-michigan-seafront-property/
Just Trump lying over and over and over again in recent weeks. Does a single truthful word ever come out of his mouth? Untethered to reality': CNN slaps back against Trump's 11 most 'colorful lies' https://www.rawstory.com/trump-fact-check-2669238406/ Former President Donald Trump's 11 most "colorful lies" were subjected Thursday to a brutal fact check from one infuriated CNN analyst. Daniel Dale lambasted Trump over a series of fictional stories told over the past month — not including the debunked lie that Haitian immigrants eat pets — that the CNN reporter described as "rubbish" and "absolute bunk." "Trump’s lower-profile recent public appearances, like rallies and interviews, have also featured wholly imaginary tales," Dale wrote. "The Republican presidential nominee is telling colorful lies that are completely untethered to reality." Dale then delves into 11 stories, told by Trump, that do not stand up to fact. 1. No, Vice President Kamala Harris has not said she'll reinstate the military draft Said Trump: “She wants to bring back the draft, and draft your child, and put them in a war that should never have happened.” Wrote Dale: "That’s absolute bunk. Harris is not talking at all about bringing back the draft." 2. No, Harris did not cheat during their presidential debate Said Trump: “If you watch that that interview, she had notes. That means she knew the questions. And she had notes. She kept looking down – ‘uhhh.’ Nobody wants to cover it.” Wrote Dale: "He even performed an impression in which he portrayed Harris supposedly looking down at these notes. She didn’t actually have any notes." 3. No, transgender children are receiving secret surgery at school Said Trump: “The transgender thing is incredible. Think of it. Your kid goes to school and comes home a few days later with an operation. The school decides what’s going to happen with your child.” Wrote Dale: "Trump’s campaign subsequently made clear to CNN that it could not find a single example of such a thing having happened.... Even after Trump’s campaign demonstrated that it couldn’t substantiate the story, he repeated it days later." 4. No, President Joe Biden did not send Harris to negotiate with Russian President Vladimir Putin Said Trump: "He attacked three days later. He laughed at her. He thought she was a joke. Now, he's really laughing when he sees her. Can you imagine her negotiating with President Xi of China, with Kim Jong Un of North Korea?" Wrote Dale: "This story, too, is wholly false. Biden never sent Harris to negotiate with Putin – in fact, the Kremlin said in July that Harris and Putin have never spoken – and Harris did not travel to Russia just prior to the invasion." 5. No, Harris did not 'turn Black' Said Trump: "I did not know she was Black until a number of years ago, when she happened to turn Black, and now she wants to be known as Black. Is she Indian or is she Black?" Wrote Dale: "None of that is true. Harris – who was raised in a Black community and graduated from a historically Black university – has embraced her Black identity since her youth." 6. No, Harris was not the first Democrat to drop out of the 2020 presidential primary Said Trump: “She was one of 22 people that ran. She was the first one to quit." Wrote Dale: "Not even close. In fact, 13 other Democratic candidates dropped out of the race before Harris did." 7. No, everyone did not want the Supreme Court to terminate federal abortion rights Said Trump: “Every Democrat, every Republican, everybody wanted Roe v. Wade terminated and brought back to the states." Wrote Dale: "This is not even remotely accurate. Roe was consistently supported by a majority of the American public, and it was overwhelmingly popular among Democrats – with 80% support or better among Democrats in many polls." 8. No, Jesus would not count votes differently in California Said Trump: “If Jesus came down and was the vote counter, I would win California, okay?” Wrote Dale: "More rubbish. The votes are counted honestly in California, as they are in every other state; Trump loses California because it is an overwhelmingly Democratic state." 9. No, Trump did not win a ‘Man of the Year’ award in Michigan Said Trump: “The press said, ‘Oh, it never happened.’ Well, then it did happen. They found out where it was...All of a sudden, like through a miracle, they found out it did exist.” Wrote Dale: "That’s a lie on top of a lie. The media has not discovered proof that Trump got a Michigan Man of the Year award. His campaign didn’t respond Wednesday to a request to explain what he was talking about." 10. No, ‘the Congo’ isn't emptying its prisons into the U.S. Said Trump: “In the Congo, in Africa: 22 people deposited into our country. ‘Where do you come from?’ ‘The Congo.’ ‘Where in the Congo?’ ‘Jail.’” Wrote Dale: "Representatives for the governments of both the Democratic Republic of Congo and the neighboring Republic of Congo have told CNN on the record that the claim is fiction, experts on the two countries say they have seen no evidence it is true, and Trump’s campaign has ignored requests to offer any substantiation." 11. No, the Bureau of Labor Statistics was not trying to cover up a jobs report revision ahead of the election Said Trump: "They reported fake jobs, and they were going to announce that after Nov. 5th, the most important day in the history of our country, the election...There was a leaker, friendly leaker, a patriot leaker leaked it. And that's not a revision." Wrote Dale: "Another fabrication. The Bureau of Labor Statistics regularly releases the preliminary revised data in August, and it had disclosed the precise date of this particular data release – August 21 – weeks in advance."
Apocalypse delayed: Trump keeps promising a doom that never comes Trump predicted that if Biden won, the economy would crash, crime would soar and Christmas would be canceled. None of that happened, but he's reusing those claims anyway. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/do...d-trump-promising-doom-never-comes-rcna170151 If the election does not go his way, the economy will tank, Christmas will be canceled, and America as we know it will be “finished,” Donald Trump promised in the run-up to the 2020 election. That race did not go his way, of course, and none of Trump’s prophesied cataclysms materialized under Joe Biden’s presidency. But that has not stopped Trump from recycling some of the same dark portents about a Kamala Harris presidency. “If he’s elected, the stock market will crash,” Trump said in October 2020 during his only debate with Biden. “If he gets in, you will have a depression the likes of which you’ve never seen." The depression never happened. Stocks rose during Biden’s presidency. But Trump recently predicted that a Harris victory would lead to “a massive [stock] market downturn” and “a 1929-style depression.” In 2020, he said in a tweet: “This election is a choice between a TRUMP RECOVERY or a BIDEN DEPRESSION.” In 2024, he said on Truth Social: “VOTERS HAVE A CHOICE — TRUMP PROSPERITY, OR THE KAMALA CRASH & GREAT DEPRESSION OF 2024.” Predicting the future is inherently difficult. And bluster about the danger of the other side winning is the norm for politicians of all stripes. But Trump’s penchant for hyperbole, overconfidence and black-and-white claims has made him a particularly inaccurate Nostradamus. The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment for this article. “f Joe Biden ever became President,” Trump tweeted in 2020, “Our Country would COLLAPSE!” “If we don’t win," he told New Hampshire voters in 2024, "I think our country is finished." Four years ago, he warned Michigan voters that "a vote for Biden is a vote to completely eradicate ... your auto industry" On Wednesday, he warned Michigan voters, "If I don’t win, you will have no auto industry within two to three years. It will all be gone." Trump’s prognostications about life under a Biden presidency grew more and more apocalyptic as Election Day drew nigh in 2020. With the Covid-19 pandemic raging, Trump told supporters that Biden had plans to “impose a blanket shutdown" across the country and keep the country locked down to fulfill his “plan to kill the American Dream.” “If you vote for Biden, it means no kids in school, no graduations, no weddings, no Thanksgiving, no Christmas and no Fourth of July together,” he said at a rally in Goodyear, Arizona. “If he comes in,” he said at a Nevada rally, “the Christmas season will be canceled.” Of course, Biden imposed no such lockdowns, and holiday season shopping rose every year of Biden’s presidency to a record high last year, according to the National Retail Federation. In his speech at the Republican National Convention in 2020, Trump called Biden “a Trojan horse for socialism” who would “give free rein to violent anarchists” to “completely dismantle and destroy ... the American way of life.” “Make no mistake, if you give power to Joe Biden, the radical left will defund police departments all across America,” Trump warned, predicting Biden had plans for “immediately releasing 400,000 criminals onto your streets and into your neighborhoods.” In fact, crime has fallen, and Biden signed legislation increasing police funding. “If the left gains power, they will demolish the suburbs, confiscate your guns and appoint justices who will wipe away your Second Amendment and other constitutional freedoms,” Trump said in his convention speech. The suburbs still stand, as does the Second Amendment, backed by a conservative majority on the Supreme Court. Speaking at The Villages, a massive retirement community in Florida, Trump prophesied that Biden would “dismantle your police departments, dissolve our borders, confiscate your guns, terminate religious liberty.” Almost four years into Biden's term, the U.S.-Mexico border remains a problem, but it also remains. Even God was not safe from a Biden presidency, Trump warned. "If Joe Biden got in," he said on Fox News, "religion will be gone, OK?” In another interview with the network, he said Biden would “take away your guns, your oil and your God.” In Ohio, Trump said that Biden is “against God” and that his election would “hurt the Bible, hurt God.” Domestic oil production and gun sales both reached record highs under Biden, a practicing Catholic who has attended church regularly while in the White House. But Trump's auguring went on, with troubling visions of an America completely cowed by its rivals. “If I don’t win the election, China will own the United States. You’re going to have to learn to speak Chinese,” Trump told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt in August 2020. The number of American college students studying Chinese actually declined under Biden after having peaked in 2016. Trump even predicted that if he lost the election, he might have to leave the country or retire from public life. “If I lose to him, I don’t know what I’m going to do. I will never speak to you again,” he told North Carolina rallygoers four years ago. “You’ll never see me again.” In Georgia, days before the election, Trump said he would be so embarrassed to lose to Biden that "maybe I’ll have to leave the country — I don’t know.” But there was no chance of that, Trump confidently predicted, telling supporters in Wisconsin his election was basically a sure thing: "The only way we’re going to lose this election is if the election is rigged." Trump did, in fact, lose and did not flee the country. This year, as Trump faces off against Biden's vice president, he has reprised some of the same grim predictions for the future if he does not win. While Biden was a “Trojan horse for socialism,” Trump’s campaign said in a news release last month that “Kamala Harris is a Trojan horse for nation-destroying spending, communist price controls and open borders.” In a fundraising video, Trump claimed that Harris, too, wants to ban Christmas. "She wants no Merry Christmas," Trump said. "No, we’re going to have Merry Christmas just like we got for everybody seven years ago. We brought it back. It was in deep trouble, but we brought it back." The suburbs are also doomed if Harris wins, Trump told rallygoers last week in Tucson, Arizona, warning that Harris' team "wants to abolish the suburbs." “I will save America’s suburbs," he said. He insists that Harris, if elected, will “defund the police from Day One,” confiscate guns and halt all fossil fuel production. “If she won the election, the day after that election,” he said in the debate, “oil will be dead, fossil fuel will be dead.” Throughout his 2024 campaign, he has portrayed the election as an existential clash for the future of the country, using his first campaign rally last year to call the election “the final battle," invoking the Book of Revelation's portrayal of Armageddon and saying Harris would “destroy” America, “just like she destroyed San Francisco, just like she destroyed California.” And reprising his false prophecy from 2020, Trump has been telling supporters that this election, too, is a sure thing and that the only way he can lose is if it is rigged. "The only way they can beat us is to cheat," he said in Las Vegas over the summer. "We have all the votes we’ll need," he promised his supporters last month in North Carolina. Whether that prediction comes true or not remains to be seen.
Trump's running mate also continually spews misinformation. Claim: Former President Donald Trump could have destroyed the Affordable Care Act, but “he chose to build upon (it)." Vance misleads: Trump tried to take the Affordable Care Act down, not build upon it https://www.politifact.com/factchec...misleads-trump-tried-to-take-the-aca-down-no/ As president, Donald Trump cut funding for Affordable Care Act marketing, outreach and enrollment assistance and expanded access to short-term, limited-coverage plans that Democrats call "junk insurance." Enrollment in Affordable Care Act plans fell by more than 2 million and the number of uninsured increased during his term. Trump supported a congressional GOP repeal-and-replace plan, assailed Republican Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., for his vote to kill it, and submitted a brief to the Supreme Court arguing for the act to be overturned. (More at above url)