How to Give Trump a Real-time Fact Check

Описание: TV broadcasters have long struggled with the challenge of fact-checking Donald Trump. The lies come so fast, they're half-way around the world before the fact checkers have finished launching their word-processors.

I believe this video shows a way.

This example comes from a press conference given by Trump at Mar-a-Lago on August 8, 2024.

Trump is bragging (as he does) about the size of the crowd (a favorite topic) that he spoke to on January 6, 2021 (a beautiful day). For those interested, Here's the key to the 18 lies.
1. "The biggest crowd I've ever spoken before was that day" (January 6, 2021). Nope. His inauguration was bigger
2. "And I'll tell you, it's very hard to find a picture of that crowd." Nope. Just Google for it
3. "You never see the picture of the crowd." Nope. All you have to do is look for it.
4. "The biggest crowd I've ever spoken" - Nope. (see 1) BTW, this makes fact checking easy. Trump has a library of favorite lies. He repeats them
5. "I've spoken to the biggest crowds." Nope. Obama and JFK had bigger inaugurals. MLKJr had a much bigger crowd. Wavy Gravy spoke to a bigger crowd at Woodstock.
6. Nobody's spoken to crowds bigger than me. (see 5). Also, a bunch of Popes have done it. According to Guinness Rod Stewart holds the record for a concert atCopacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro (3.5–4 million)
7. "same real estate." Nope. Trump spoke at the Ellipse in front of the White House. MLK spoke to a crowd on the Mall from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial
8. "same everything," Some nothing. Trump is mixing venues.
9. "same number of people," Not by any estmates. (see 5)
10. "if not - we had more." Nope By all estimates, Trump had fewer.
11. "And they said he had a million people." Nope. Most estimates put the March on Washington at 250,00.
12. "but I had 25,000 people," Nope. Trump exaggerates again. The AP said it was at least 10,000.
13. "but when you look at the exact same picture and everything's the same." It can't be the same picture, because it was a different location. Nothing's the same.
14. "from Lincoln to Washington" Trump’s addled brain is imagining The National Mall. He may be remembering a July 4th “Salute to America” celebration from 2019. That took place on the Mall. The White House was reported to be having trouble drawing people to the event (Guardian) and no official estimate was ever released. It was surely smaller than the 1963 arch on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
15. "we actually had more people." Nope. Again.
16. "They said I had 25,000". Nope. AP said at least 10,000 (see 12).
17. "a million people," He even exaggerates the size of King's crowd, which (as noted above) most people estimate at 250,000. Maybe his brain is conflating the 1963 March with the 1995 gathering known as the Million Man March called by Minister Louis Farrakhan. Despite it's name, that crowd, while enormous, did not quite reach a million. Estimates range from 400,000 to 837,000
18. "and I'm OK with it cause I liked Dr. Martin Luther King." This is a lie and a half. Clearly he's not OK with it. He brings it up constantly. As for whether he liked Dr. King, there's no direct evidence, but Trump's long history of racism would strongly suggest that he doesn't like anything that Dr. King fought for.
#Trump,

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Transcript:
The biggest crowd I've ever spoken before was that day. And I'll tell you, it's very hard to find a picture of that crowd. You see the picture of a small number of people relatively going to the Capitol, but you never see the picture of the crowd.The biggest crowd I've ever spoken - I've spoken to the biggest crowds. Nobody's spoken to crowds bigger than me. If you look at Martin Luther King, when he did his speech - his great speech, and you look at ours, same real estate, same everything, same number of people, if not - we had more.And they said he had a million people but I had 25,000 people, but when you look at the exact same picture and everything's the same because it was the fountains, the whole thing, all the way back to - from Lincoln to Washington - and you look at it and you look at the picture of his crowd, my crowd, we actually had more people. They said I had 25,000 and he had a million people, and I'm OK with it cause I liked Dr. Martin Luther King.

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