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banderl Offline
#901 Posted: Thu, Jan 18 2018, 7:01 PM EST
Joined: 09-09-2008
Posts: 10,153
“We have more natural resources under our feet than any other country. That’s a pretty big statement. Ten years ago, five years ago even, you couldn’t make that statement.”

Topic: Environment

Source: Remarks

{Led by the hydraulic fracturing techniques}, the United States and the rest of the world have been in the midst of an energy revolution, but that began nearly 15 years ago. The U.S. has exported more energy than it has imported since 2015. Saudi Arabia leads the world with one-fifth of the world's oil reserves.
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#902 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:10 PM EST
Joined: 09-09-2008
Posts: 10,153
“We have very heavy sanctions on Russia right now. I would not and have never even thought about taking them off.”

Topic: Russia

Source: Remarks

Dan Fried, veteran State Department official who oversaw sanctions policy until late February 2017, {told Yahoo News in June 2017}: "“There was serious consideration by the White House to unilaterally rescind the sanctions." In advance of a call with Putin in late January, Kellyanne Conway said that lifting sanctions was "under consideration" as officials prepared for the call.
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#903 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:11 PM EST
Joined: 09-09-2008
Posts: 10,153
“My son Donald did a good job last night. He was open, transparent and innocent. This is the greatest Witch Hunt in political history. Sad!”

Topic: Russia

Source: Twitter

Full story

Donald Trump Jr. only released the emails facing a pending report on the content of the emails by the New York Times. Moreover, Trump exaggerates by calling the Trump-Russia stories the "greatest Witch Hunt in political history." For context: The Government Accountability Office concluded that the equivalent of $132 million was spent on independent probes during Bill Clinton's presidency, culminating in the impeachment trial in the Senate that left him in office.
banderl Offline
#904 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:11 PM EST
Joined: 09-09-2008
Posts: 10,153
“We've already started the wall because we're fixing large portions of wall right now.”
Repeated 1 time
Sep 22, 2017

Topic: Immigration

Source: Remarks

The Customs and Border Protection announced it would repair existing fencing, but this is nowhere near the signature campaign promise by Trump to build a border wall. Work for Trump's promised border wall has not yet begun, and is facing contracting delays and no funding approved yet by Congress.
banderl Offline
#905 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:12 PM EST
Joined: 09-09-2008
Posts: 10,153
“Remember, when you hear the words 'sources say' from the Fake Media, often times those sources are made up and do not exist.”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Twitter

Trump's stance on anonymous sources is inconsistent. He condemns them publicly, yet his White House consistently talks to media anonymously. Moreover, Trump himself shares stories on Twitter that are based on information provided by anonymous sources.
banderl Offline
#906 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:13 PM EST
Joined: 09-09-2008
Posts: 10,153
“Why aren't the same standards placed on the Democrats. Look what Hillary Clinton may have gotten away with. Disgraceful!”
banderl Offline
#907 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:13 PM EST
Joined: 09-09-2008
Posts: 10,153
“The W.H. is functioning perfectly, focused on HealthCare, Tax Cuts/Reform & many other things. I have very little time for watching T.V.”

Topic: Biographical record

Source: Twitter

The president routinely live-tweets as he watches cable news.
banderl Offline
#908 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:13 PM EST
Joined: 09-09-2008
Posts: 10,153
“I've gotten rid of the Johnson Amendment … I signed an executive order so that now ... ministers and preachers and rabbis and whoever it may be, they can speak. You know, you couldn’t speak politically before, now you can.”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Interview

Trump's executive order did not actually get rid of the law, but directed the Treasury Department to be lenient in enforcing it, {according to PolitiFact.}
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#909 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:14 PM EST
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Posts: 10,153
“Saudi Arabia put up hundreds of billions of dollars of money going into buying our planes and our military equipment and investing in our country.”
Repeated 6 times
Jul 12, 2017Jun 21Jun 12Jun 7Jun 1May 21

Topic: Economy

Source: Interview

Full story

The administration’s numbers are inflated. A review of the deals shows that many deals are not concluded and are simply aspirational. Moreover, many of the investments are in Saudi Arabia, making it difficult to argue that these will create many jobs for Americans. Other deals, such as the SoftBank fund and ExxonMobil Chemical deal in Texas, had been announced months earlier and thus are not appropriate for inclusion on a list of achievements from the president’s visit.
banderl Offline
#910 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:15 PM EST
Joined: 09-09-2008
Posts: 10,153
“I terminated for our country the Paris accord...I terminated because it was not fair to our country, we have other countries that had much better deals than we did.”
Repeated 6 times
Dec 18, 2017Dec 8Aug 22Jul 12Jul 7Jun 29

Topic: Environment

Source: Interview

Full story

Each country set its own commitments under the Paris Accord, so Trump's comment is puzzling. He could unilaterally change the commitments offered by former President Barack Obama, which is technically allowed under the Accord.
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#911 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:15 PM EST
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Posts: 10,153
“You had cases where a farm would have a little puddle someplace -- a puddle -- when I grew up we used to call it a puddle, you too probably, and they (the federal government) considered it a lake. If you touched it, bad things happened to you and your family. We have given the farmers back their farms.”
Repeated 7 times
Jan 8, 2018Nov 29, 2017Jul 25Jul 19Jul 12Jun 21Feb 28

Topic: Environment

Source: Interview

Full story

The Obama-era Waters of the United States rule technically has an exemption for puddles. But opponents of the rule argue say since a “puddle” is not defined in the rule, the EPA can still regulate what some people may consider puddles.
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#912 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:16 PM EST
Joined: 09-09-2008
Posts: 10,153
“We have our most jobs ever in our country.”
Repeated 1 time
Aug 15, 2017

Topic: Jobs

Source: Interview

This is a meaningless figure because the U.S. population keeps growing.
banderl Offline
#913 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:16 PM EST
Joined: 09-09-2008
Posts: 10,153
Obamacare "has failed. It is a failed experiment -- it is totally gone. It is out of business.”
Repeated 61 times
Dec 28, 2017Oct 17Oct 17Oct 16Oct 16Oct 16Oct 16Oct 10Oct 7Sep 21Aug 22Jul 28Jul 25Jul 24Jul 22Jul 19Jul 18Jul 18Jul 18Jul 14Jul 12Jun 28Jun 27Jun 25Jun 23Jun 23Jun 22Jun 21Jun 19Jun 19Jun 13Jun 8Jun 7Jun 7May 28May 18May 12May 7May 5May 5May 5May 4May 4May 1Apr 29Apr 28Apr 24Apr 23Mar 25Mar 21Mar 17Mar 17Mar 17Mar 15Mar 13Mar 11Feb 27Feb 18Feb 16Feb 10Jan 25

Topic: Health care

Source: Interview

Full story

The Affordable Care Act has not "failed," and is expected to remain stable for the foreseeable future, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
banderl Offline
#914 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:17 PM EST
Joined: 09-09-2008
Posts: 10,153
“In five months we have done more against ISIS than anybody's done since the beginning and we are having tremendous success with that.”
Repeated 13 times
Dec 27, 2017Nov 29Nov 15Nov 5Oct 25Oct 13Oct 10Sep 19Sep 15Sep 7Jul 18Jul 12Jul 6

Topic: Terrorism

Source: Interview

Full story

By just about every metric, this is not correct. Obama set up virtually all the structure that did the key fighting under Trump, and more land was captured, fighters trained and munitions dropped under Obama than under Trump. The basic plan of attack in 2017 was also developed under Obama, though Trump appears to have speeded up the tempo.
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#915 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:17 PM EST
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Posts: 10,153
Putin "wants Hillary, where she wants to have windmills. He would much rather have that, because energy prices will go up.”

Topic: Russia

Source: Interview

The U.S. Intelligence Community concluded that Putin ordered the hacking of U.S. elections in 2016 to undermine the democratic system and help Trump beat Clinton.
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#916 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:18 PM EST
Joined: 09-09-2008
Posts: 10,153
Pat Robertson: "How many regulations have you lifted so far?" Trump: "Oh, just thousands.”

Topic: Economy

Source: Interview

Only July 20, the Trump adminstration said it had withdrawn 469 regulations and set aside 391 to be re-evaulated.
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#917 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:18 PM EST
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Posts: 10,153
“James Comey leaked CLASSIFIED INFORMATION to the media. That is so illegal! ”
Repeated 1 time
Jul 19, 2017

Topic: Russia

Source: Twitter

Former FBI Director James Comey said that {the president's tweet about possible "tapes" of their conversations led him to believe there might be corroboration for the memos} that he had written while still FBI director. Comey took contemporaneous notes following each of his meetings with the president and president-elect, which he shared with the senior leadership of the FBI. Comey intentionally wrote these in a way that the information wouldn't be classified.
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#918 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:19 PM EST
Joined: 09-09-2008
Posts: 10,153
“When I left Conference Room for short meetings with Japan and other countries, I asked Ivanka to hold seat. Very standard. Angela M agrees!”
banderl Offline
#919 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:20 PM EST
Joined: 09-09-2008
Posts: 10,153
“Fake News said 17 intel agencies when actually 4 (had to apologize). Why did Obama do NOTHING when he had info before election?”
Repeated 38 times
Jan 6, 2018Jan 6Jan 5Dec 28, 2017Dec 28Dec 28Dec 15Dec 12Nov 26Nov 11Oct 27Oct 25Oct 25Oct 18Oct 16Oct 11Oct 10Sep 22Sep 22Aug 3Jul 29Jul 23Jul 12Jul 9Jun 22May 12May 10Apr 28Apr 5Apr 1Mar 20Mar 20Mar 20Mar 20Feb 26Feb 24Feb 16Feb 7

Topic: Russia

Source: Twitter

On Jan. 6, the leadership of the intelligence community --the FBI, National Security Agency, CIA and the Director of National Intelligence -- released a declassified report expressing "high confidence" in the CIA's judgement that Russia had meddled in the U.S. election. Senate and House committees led by Republicans have begun their own investigations, and at least one Republican lawmaker has called for the appointment of a special prosecutor. President Obama did confront the Russian president before the election and reportedly told him to 'knock it off.' The Obama administration also took the intelligence to the House and Senate leadership in the hope of bipartisan congressional actio
banderl Offline
#920 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:20 PM EST
Joined: 09-09-2008
Posts: 10,153
“Sanctions were not discussed at my meeting with President Putin. Nothing will be done until the Ukrainian & Syrian problems are solved!”

Topic: Election

Source: Twitter

Sanctions were, indeed, mentioned in the context of election meddling, according to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Trump spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
banderl Offline
#921 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:22 PM EST
Joined: 09-09-2008
Posts: 10,153
“Everyone here is talking about why John Podesta refused to give the DNC server to the FBI and the CIA. Disgraceful!”
banderl Offline
#922 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:23 PM EST
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Posts: 10,153
“For decades, American jobs have been ripped out of our communities, industries and towns have been stripped bare, and the entire communities have been uprooted and left. Foreign nations got rich at America's expense - and many special interests profited from this great global theft of American wealth.”

Topic: Jobs

Source: Prepared speech

Full story

Trump engages in hyperbole, attributing all of the decline in manufacturing to foreign trade. Some economists calculate 1 million to 2 million jobs were lost after China was admitted to the World Trade Organization in 2000. But economists say they believe the biggest factor in the decline in manufacturing is automation, not jobs going overseas. Another factor is decreased consumer spending on manufactured goods. A new report by the Congressional Research Service notes that “employment in manufacturing has fallen in most major manufacturing countries over the past quarter-century,” so the U.S. experience is not unusual.
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#923 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:23 PM EST
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Posts: 10,153
“One of my first acts was ordering all federal agencies to enforce two simple rules: Buy American, and Hire American.”
Repeated 23 times
Nov 2, 2017Oct 11Sep 29Sep 22Sep 6Aug 22Aug 3Jul 26Jul 25Jul 21Jul 20Jul 17Jul 7Apr 29Apr 19Apr 18Apr 18Mar 28Mar 20Mar 18Mar 15Mar 15Mar 6

Topic: Jobs

Source: Prepared speech

Full story

Trump now calls for Americans to “buy American, hire American.” But this is misleading. Trump has a long history of outsourcing a variety of his own products. The Fact Checker has counted a total of 12 countries where Trump products were manufactured (China, the Netherlands, Mexico, India, Turkey, Slovenia, Honduras, Germany, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Vietnam and South Korea).
banderl Offline
#924 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:24 PM EST
Joined: 09-09-2008
Posts: 10,153
“This summit ushers in the next great energy frontier. This is largely about energy because we are that great exporter. We've just become — what's going on in our country is incredible, and I hope you take advantage of it by using these resources.”

Topic: Environment

Source: Remarks

{Led by the hydraulic fracturing techniques}, the United States and the rest of the world have been in the midst of an energy revolution, but that began nearly 15 years ago. The U.S. has exported more energy than it has imported since 2015.
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#925 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:24 PM EST
Joined: 09-09-2008
Posts: 10,153
“And I was truly proud to have [Polish American] support in the 2016 election.”

Topic: Election

Source: Remarks

Full story

While some people provide anecdotal evidence that suggests Trump enjoyed more support from Polish Americans, we found no correlation between the density of the Polish American population and the 2016 vote. It's even harder to say definitely that they had a higher turnout than in past years. The president is greatly exaggerating here.
banderl Offline
#926 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:25 PM EST
Joined: 09-09-2008
Posts: 10,153
“The transatlantic bond between the United States and Europe is as strong as ever and maybe, in many ways, even stronger.”
Repeated 1 time
Jul 6, 2017

Topic: Foreign policy

Source: Remarks

Since the president announced he would pull the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Accord, many European leaders, including the {president of France} and {German chancellor}, have publicly distanced themselves from him. It's certainly a stretch to suggest that relations between the U.S. and Europe are as strong as they have ever been.
victor809 Offline
#927 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:27 PM EST
Joined: 10-14-2011
Posts: 23,866
Do we get something if we get post 1000?
banderl Offline
#928 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:31 PM EST
Joined: 09-09-2008
Posts: 10,153
victor809 wrote:
Do we get something if we get post 1000?


I heard that you get an orange hair dye job at your local Great Clips.


I'll hit 1000 sometime this evening.
Still have about 700 lies to go through (thanks Washington Post).
banderl Offline
#929 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:34 PM EST
Joined: 09-09-2008
Posts: 10,153
“That is why my administration has demanded that all members of NATO finally meet their full and fair financial obligation. As a result of this insistence, billions of dollars more have begun to pour into NATO. In fact, people are shocked. But billions and billions of dollars more coming in from countries that, in my opinion, would not have been paying so quickly.”
Repeated 21 times
Dec 18, 2017Dec 8Nov 15Jul 6Jul 6Jun 9Jun 2May 30May 27May 25May 25May 25May 25May 8Apr 29Apr 29Apr 21Mar 22Mar 18Mar 17Feb 28

Topic: Foreign policy

Source: Remarks

Full story

Long before Trump started complaining about NATO, members had committed to having defense spending account for two percent of each nation's gross domestic product by 2024.
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#930 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:34 PM EST
Joined: 10-14-2011
Posts: 23,866
I dunno. I feel like whoever gets post 1000 should win something.


banderl Offline
#931 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:35 PM EST
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Posts: 10,153
“And we're grateful for the example Poland has set for every member of the NATO alliance by being one of the few nations that actually meets its financial obligations. And you know, I've been pretty hard on some of the members of NATO for not, and the money is pouring in. I can tell you.”
Repeated 21 times
Dec 18, 2017Dec 8Nov 15Jul 6Jul 6Jun 9Jun 2May 30May 27May 25May 25May 25May 25May 8Apr 29Apr 29Apr 21Mar 22Mar 18Mar 17Feb 28

Topic: Foreign policy

Source: Remarks

Full story

Long before Trump started complaining about NATO, members had committed to having defense spending account for two percent of each nation's gross domestic product by 2024. Poland met the two percent benchmark before Trump became president
banderl Offline
#932 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:36 PM EST
Joined: 09-09-2008
Posts: 10,153
“I hear we have a big crowd, Mr. President. It's going to be big — I think they're showing up for you, not for me, right?”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Remarks

Full story

Trump was reportedly {promised a chanting crowd when he accepted his invitation} to Poland. Numerous media outlets reported that Polish government bused in much of the enthusiastic crowd from around the country.


LOL
sorry Frank
banderl Offline
#933 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:37 PM EST
Joined: 09-09-2008
Posts: 10,153
“Gas prices are the lowest in the U.S. in over ten years! I would like to see them go even lower.”

Topic: Economy

Source: Twitter

Trump is walking a fine line here. As our friends at PolitiFact noted, {gas prices were lower than anytime since 2005} over July fourth weekend, but in fact, when adjusted for inflation, they have been lower than they are now at several points over the last ten years.


What happened with gas prices?
banderl Offline
#934 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:37 PM EST
Joined: 09-09-2008
Posts: 10,153
“#FraudNewsCNN #FNN https://t.co/WYUnHjjUjg”
Repeated 16 times
Jan 5, 2018Jan 2Nov 30, 2017Oct 5Sep 27Aug 22Aug 7Jul 2Jul 1Jun 27Mar 29Feb 27Feb 16Feb 6Feb 4Jan 28

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Twitter

Full story

Unlike the creators of actual fake news, the editors of the retracted CNN article have resigned and been held to account.
banderl Offline
#935 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:37 PM EST
Joined: 09-09-2008
Posts: 10,153
“I am extremely pleased to see that @CNN has finally been exposed as #FakeNews and garbage journalism. It's about time!”
Repeated 16 times
Jan 5, 2018Jan 2Nov 30, 2017Oct 5Sep 27Aug 22Aug 7Jul 2Jul 1Jun 27Mar 29Feb 27Feb 16Feb 6Feb 4Jan 28

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Twitter

Full story

Unlike the creators of actual fake news, the editors of the retracted CNN article have resigned and been held to account.
banderl Offline
#936 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:38 PM EST
Joined: 09-09-2008
Posts: 10,153
“Crazy Joe Scarborough and dumb as a rock Mika are not bad people, but their low rated show is dominated by their NBC bosses. Too bad!”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Twitter

According to {Ad Week}: "Morning Joe had a solid quarter in its own right. Not only did it defeat its rival [CNN] New Day in total viewers for the 9th straight quarter, but its 997,000 total viewer average represents a quarterly audience record for MSNBC in the 6 – 9 a.m. time period." After Trump attacked the hosts on Twitter, the show broke its ratings record.
banderl Offline
#937 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:38 PM EST
Joined: 09-09-2008
Posts: 10,153
“Numerous states are refusing to give information to the very distinguished VOTER FRAUD PANEL. What are they trying to hide?”
Repeated 4 times
Jan 4, 2018Jul 19, 2017Jul 1Jan 25

Topic: Election

Source: Twitter

States refused to turn over voter information to the voting commission over concerns that doing so may violate federal and state privacy laws. Yet Trump suggests that states deciding not to share the information are up to something nefarious.
banderl Offline
#938 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:39 PM EST
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Posts: 10,153
“Watched low rated @Morning_Joe for first time in long time. FAKE NEWS. He called me to stop a National Enquirer article. I said no! Bad show”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Twitter

Full story

Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski dispute this account. They {wrote in an op-ed in The Washington Post}: "This year, top White House staff members warned that the National Enquirer was planning to publish a negative article about us unless we begged the president to have the story spiked. We ignored their desperate pleas."
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#939 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:39 PM EST
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Posts: 10,153
“The second is the No Sanctuary For Criminals Act, which blocks federal grants to cities that release dangerous criminal aliens back into the streets, including the vicious and disgusting and horrible MS-13 gang members. And we're getting them out. We are getting them out. They're going fast. General Kelly and his whole group, they've gotten rid of 6,000 so far. We're about 50 percent there. And we're actually liberating towns, like on Long Island where I grew up. We're liberating towns.”
Repeated 3 times
Jun 28, 2017Jun 22Jun 21

Topic: Immigration

Source: Prepared speech

Full story

The Trump administration is, indeed, increasing enforcement against gang activity and MS-13 members and affiliates. Earlier this year, ICE conducted the largest gang surge to date. But the deportations of MS-13 members and affiliates are in the hundreds, not the thousands, under Trump.
banderl Offline
#940 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:40 PM EST
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Posts: 10,153
“We're here today to usher in a new American energy policy, one that unlocks millions and millions of jobs and trillions of dollars in wealth. ”

Topic: Environment

Source: Prepared speech

Trump's soon-to-arrive revolutionary policy is one that most experts don't forsee. {Led by the hydraulic fracturing techniques, the United States and the rest of the world have been in the midst of an energy revolution, but that began nearly 15 years ago.}
banderl Offline
#941 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:41 PM EST
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Posts: 10,153
“It’s going to be open, and the land will be left in better shape than it is right now.”

Topic: Environment

Source: Prepared speech

Full story

Trump is touting his decision to lift a moratorium on new coal leasing on federal lands, but he is arguing, implausibly, that there will be no envionmental cost to adding new coal mines.
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#942 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:41 PM EST
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Posts: 10,153
“First, we will begin to revive and expand our nuclear energy sector, which I'm so happy about, which produces clean, renewable and emissions-free energy.”

Topic: Environment

Source: Prepared speech

Full story

It's up for debate whether nuclear energy should be considered clean and renewable. While it doesn't produce greenhouse gases or lead to smog, the waste that is created persists for hundreds of thousands of years. Even if the Earth's supply of urnaium will last a long time, {the raw fuel that powers the reactors is derived from uranium ore, which is a mineral of finate quality on Earth.}
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#943 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:42 PM EST
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Posts: 10,153
“And I'm proud to report that Corsa Coal, here with us today, just opened a brand new coal mine in the state of Pennsylvania, the first one in many, many, many years, employing a lot of people, and we are putting the coal miners back to work just like I promised; ”
Repeated 5 times
Jun 29, 2017Jun 21Jun 13Jun 12Jun 7

Topic: Jobs

Source: Prepared speech

Full story

Trump takes credit for a new mine opening up, but the digging of this coal mine began two months before the presidential election. (Moreover, this mine is for metallurgical coal, which is used to make steel.) It is not the first new mine for decades.
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#944 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:42 PM EST
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Posts: 10,153
“As you all know, I approved the Keystone XL pipeline and the Dakota Access Pipeline in my first week. Thousands of jobs, tremendous things are happening.”
Repeated 20 times
Dec 8, 2017Nov 6Nov 2Sep 29Sep 27Sep 22Sep 6Jul 12Jul 12Jun 29Jun 21Jun 7Apr 29Apr 4Mar 28Feb 28Feb 24Feb 18Feb 16Jan 24

Topic: Jobs

Source: Prepared speech

Trump approved it on the fourth day of his president. Trump's claims about the numbers of jobs that would be created changes from day to day but it is always inflated. The actual number of Keystone construction jobs, for instance, is just 3,900 on an annualized basis — and other jobs have already been created (such as for building high-strength line pipe.) In the context of the U.S. economy, these are not many jobs.
banderl Offline
#945 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:43 PM EST
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Posts: 10,153
“Democrats purposely misstated Medicaid under new Senate bill — actually goes up.”

Topic: Health care

Source: Twitter

Full story

This is quite misleading. He describes the raw increase in Medicaid spending under the Senate bill. That is just one part of the picture that omits the fact that if the Senate bill as written by the date of his tweet becomes law, federal spending would be reduced by $772 billion over 10 years, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. Moreover, 15 million fewer people would be enrolled in the program over 10 years than would be under current law.
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#946 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:43 PM EST
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Posts: 10,153
“The #AmazonWashingtonPost, sometimes referred to as the guardian of Amazon not paying internet taxes (which they should) is FAKE NEWS!”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Twitter

There is no "internet tax." If Trump is referring to sales taxes, the company does collect sales taxes.
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#947 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:45 PM EST
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Posts: 10,153
“So they caught Fake News CNN cold, but what about NBC, CBS & ABC? What about the failing @nytimes & @washingtonpost? They are all Fake News!”
Repeated 16 times
Jan 5, 2018Jan 2Nov 30, 2017Oct 5Sep 27Aug 22Aug 7Jul 2Jul 1Jun 27Mar 29Feb 27Feb 16Feb 6Feb 4Jan 28

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Twitter

Full story

Both the Times and The Post have seen spikes in audience and subscribers in 2017. (The Post announced at the end of 2016 that it is “profitable and growing.”) Moreover, unlike the creators of actual fake news, the editors of the retracted CNN article have resigned and been held to account.
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#948 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:45 PM EST
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Posts: 10,153
“Fake News CNN is looking at big management changes now that they got caught falsely pushing their phony Russian stories. Ratings way down!”
Repeated 1 time
Aug 22, 2017

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Twitter

This is false. Data from Nielsen shows CNN is at a five-year high in total viewers for primetime, total day, and those two categories for 25- to 54-year-olds.
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#949 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:46 PM EST
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Posts: 10,153
“In just two weeks, you [Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India] will begin to implement the largest tax overhaul in your country's history. We're doing that also, by the way.”
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Topic: Taxes

Source: Remarks

Full story

Trump’s tax cut would be nearly 0.9 percent of the gross domestic product, meaning it would be far smaller than President Ronald Reagan’s tax cut in 1981, which was 2.89 percent of GDP. Trump’s tax cut, if enacted in law, would be the eighth largest tax cut — and even smaller than two tax cuts passed under Barack Obama.
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#950 Posted: Fri, Jan 19 2018, 5:46 PM EST
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Posts: 10,153
“Hillary Clinton colluded with the Democratic Party in order to beat Crazy Bernie Sanders. Is she allowed to so collude? Unfair to Bernie!”

Topic: Election

Source: Twitter

Trump's use of 'collude' suggests that DNC conspired to hurt the Sanders campaign. {Despite the DNC email hack which showed the committee strongly preferred Clinton,} there's no evidence that Clinton conspired with the committee to damage the Sanders campaign.
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