Federal Government Policy and Business

The President’s Oddly Specific Lies About How He’s Managing Government

Government Executive: As reporters and fact checkers have exhaustively documented, President Trump’s relationship with the truth has been complicated during his tenure as chief executive. Usually, his questionable statements and outright falsehoods concern policy initiatives, such as his claim to having enacted the largest tax cut in history and winning approval of the biggest defense budget ever.

But at times, the president has also made assertions on Twitter or in other public forums about actions related to the management of government that are simply not true and that, in some instances, he must know to be false. Often, the claims are very specific in their incorrect or fictitious details.

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