| Enjoy this newsletter? Forward it to someone else who'd like it! If this email was forwarded to you, sign up here. Did you hear something fact-checkable? Send it here; we'll check it out. Trump's first term: 30,573 false or misleading claims Shortly after Trump was elected in 2016, we started a project to document every false or misleading claim he made in the first 100 days. We counted 492 untruths. In response to reader requests, we decided to keep it going — first for an entire year, and then for his whole presidency. The longer Trump was president, the more time-consuming the project became. Trump averaged about six claims a day in his first year as president, 16 claims day in his second year, 22 claims day in his third year — and 39 claims a day in his final year. Put another way, it took him 27 months to reach 10,000 claims and another 14 months to reach 20,000. He then exceeded the 30,000 mark less than five months later. We were gratified when the project was nominated in 2020 by the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University for inclusion on a list of the Top Ten Works of Journalism of the Decade. Still, it was draining for our small staff — and a second Trump term probably calls for a new approach. During the campaign, Trump repeated many of the claims we had previously documented. To explore the full database, click the link below. | 
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