"Alternative Facts"
from Donald Trump:
DONALD TRUMP
Says his book,
The Art of the Deal,
is "the No. 1 selling
business book of all time."
Monday, July 6th, 2015
The Truth:
Not a best seller.
DONALD TRUMP
"Our real unemployment
is anywhere from
18 to 20 percent.
18 to 20 percent.
Don't believe the 5.6.
Don't believe it."
Tuesday, June 16th, 2015
The Truth:
A complete fabrication.
DONALD TRUMP
"South Korea doesn't
pay the United States
for U.S. troops
that protect their country."
Friday, April 1st, 2011
The Truth:
South Korea pays $700 million a year.
DONALD TRUMP
Says Mexico doesn't have
birthright citizenship, and
Americans are the "only ones"
to have it.
Thursday, September 17th, 2015
The Truth:
Mexico does have
birthright citizenship,
plus 31 other nations.
DONALD TRUMP
"I did not support the war in Iraq
… The record shows that I’m right."
Monday, September 26th, 2016
The Truth:
There is no public evidence this is true,
and some evidence, in a radio interview,
that he accepted the invasion
although did not seem thrilled by it.
Your editor was against the Iraq war,
because he found no connection
between the 9/11 attack and Iraq,
because he found no connection
between the 9/11 attack and Iraq,
and wrote about it
in his economics newsletter
in his economics newsletter
before the war started.
I then found out
almost no one
agreed with me,
and newsletter renewals
collapsed for a few months!
I then found out
almost no one
agreed with me,
and newsletter renewals
collapsed for a few months!
In my opinion, Donald Trump,
who is a master salesman,
would never have taken a position
so unpopular at the time
(being against war with Iraq),
and there is no proof from that era
that he was against the war.
and there is no proof from that era
that he was against the war.
DONALD TRUMP
In Japan,
"they take a bowling ball
"they take a bowling ball
from 20 feet up in the air
and they drop it on
the hood of the car.
And if the hood dents,
then the car doesn't qualify
...It's horrible, the way we're treated."
Thursday, March 15th, 2018
The Truth:
A complete fabrication
that you might expect
to hear from a child !
to hear from a child !
DONALD TRUMP
"You take Pulse nightclub.
If you had one person
in that room that could carry a gun
and knew how to use it,
it wouldn’t have happened,
or certainly to the extent that it did."
Thursday, March 1st, 2018
The Truth:
There was
an armed guard
at the club.
Didn't help.
