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Description	English: Charts showing findings of two newspapers' fact checkers re the number of "false or misleading" or "false" claims by U.S. President Donald Trump. Data sources: — The Washington Post (upper chart) Fact Checker (October 9, 2019). "In 993 days, President Trump has made 13,435 false or misleading claims". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on October 24, 2019. Fact Checker (December 10, 2019). "President Trump has made 15,413 false or misleading claims over 1,055 days". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on December 17, 2019. Fact Checker (January 19, 2020). "In 1,095 days, President Trump has made 16,241 false or misleading claims". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on January 20, 2019. Fact Checker (April 3, 2020). "In 1,170 days, President Trump has made 18,000 false or misleading claims". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on April 15, 2020. Fact Checker (May 29, 2020). "In 1,226 days, President Trump has made 19,127 false or misleading claims". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on June 4, 2020. Fact Checker (July 9, 2020). "In 1,267 days, President Trump has made 20,055 false or misleading claims". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on July 13, 2020. Fact Checker (August 27, 2020). "In 1,316 days, President Trump has made 22,247 false or misleading claims". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on October 21, 2020. Fact Checker (September 3, 2020). "In 1,323 days, President Trump has made 22,510 false or misleading claims". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on November 15, 2020. Fact Checker (October 16, 2020). "In 1,366 days, President Trump has made 25,653 false or misleading claims". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on December 20, 2020. Fact Checker (November 5, 2020). "In 1,386 days, President Trump has made 29,508 false or misleading claims". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on January 5, 2021. Fact Checker (January 13, 2021). "In 1,455 days, President Trump has made 30,529 false or misleading claims". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on January 16, 2021. Fact Checker (January 20, 2021). "In four years, President Trump made 30,573 false or misleading claims". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on January 20, 2021. Clicking on "Monthly" at archive of February 8, 2021 articulates specific value for month of January. — Toronto Star and CNN (lower chart) Dale, Daniel (June 5, 2019). "Donald Trump has now said more than 5,000 false things as president". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on October 3, 2019. Dale, Daniel (January 6, 2020). "Internal chart of Trump's false claims per day from July 8 (2019)". CNN. Archived from the original on 2020-01-06. Retrieved on 2020-01-07. (image of chart). Dale, Daniel (March 9, 2020). "Trump is averaging about 59 false claims per week since ... July 8, 2019.". CNN. Archived from the original on 2020-03-09. Retrieved on 2020-04-15. (direct image of chart) Related articles: Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly (October 14, 2019). "President Trump has made 13,435 false or misleading claims over 993 days". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on November 1, 2019. Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly, (December 16, 2019). "President Trump has made 15,413 false or misleading claims over 1,055 days". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on December 17, 2019. Tubb, Ed (June 5, 2019). "Washington bureau chief Daniel Dale does his last Trump fact check for the Toronto Star". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on June 9, 2019. — apparently the reason I could not find an updated version of the Toronto Star fact check chart: fact-checker Daniel Dale moved to CNN: (2019). "Daniel Dale / Reporter (profile)". CNN. Archived from the original on September 2, 2019. Kessler, Glenn; Rizzo, Salvador; Kelly, Meg (January 20, 2020). "President Trump made 16,241 false or misleading claims in his first three years". The Washington Post. Kessler, Glen; Rizzo, Salvador; Kelly, Meg (April 14, 2020). "President Trump made 18,000 false or misleading claims in 1,170 days". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on April 15, 2020. Kessler, Glen; Rizzo, Salvador; Kelly, Meg (June 2, 2020). "The central feature of Trump’s presidency: False claims and disinformation". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on June 4, 2020. Kessler, Glenn; Rizzo, Salvador; Kelly, Meg (July 13, 2020). "President Trump has made more than 20,000 false or misleading claims". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on July 13, 2020. Blake, Meredith, (October 30, 2020). "Trump makes so many false claims, CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale has lost count". The Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on October 30, 2020. — Dale reports that because Trump was talking so much in advance of the November 3, 2020 presidential election, Dale in September 2020 stopped keeping tallies of all Trump's statements, to allow Dale to "just focus on the big stuff". Kessler, Glenn (January 23, 2021). "Trump made 30,573 false or misleading claims as president. Nearly half came in his final year.". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2021-01-24. Retrieved on 2021-01-24. Data: Listings of actual data used to make the above two charts are provided in collapsible text below.
Date	5 November 2019
Source	Own work
Author	RCraig09
Other versions	2017- Donald Trump veracity - composite graph.png Consolidated data into a single graph

Data used to form the charts

Washington Post

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The Washington Post data:
MonthFalse or misleading claims
2017-0155
2017-02153
2017-03148
2017-04166
2017-05104
2017-06149
2017-07226
2017-08142
2017-09171
2017-10245
2017-11220
2017-12215
2018-01289
2018-02191
2018-03261
2018-04289
2018-05249
2018-06534
2018-07453
2018-08479
2018-09599
2018-101205
2018-11867
2018-12270
2019-01737
2019-02486
2019-03553
2019-04687
2019-05576
2019-06676
2019-07545
2019-08525
2019-09639
(source was dated October 2019)
2019-101156
2019-11900
(source dated December 2019)
2019-12685
(source dated January 2020)
2020-01761
2020-02815
2020-03527
(source dated April 2020)
2020-04533
2020-05649
2020-06721
(source dated July 2020)
2020-07873
2020-081651
2020-092213
(source dated Oct 16, 2020)
2020-103917
(source dated Nov 5, 2020)
2020-111286
2020-12397
(source dated Jan 13, 2021)
2021-01322
(source dated Jan 20, 2021)

Toronto Star and CNN data =

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Data adapted by uploader from a Toronto Star graphic (is not the original data used to generate the newspaper's graphic):

WeekFalse claims
2017-01-206
2017-01-2720
2017-02-0315
2017-02-1018
2017-02-1727
2017-02-2412
2017-03-0317
2017-03-103
2017-03-1720
2017-03-2427
2017-03-317
2017-04-078
2017-04-1414
2017-04-2119
2017-04-286
2017-05-058
2017-05-1223
2017-05-195
2017-05-264
2017-06-0220
2017-06-0916
2017-06-1615
2017-06-2329
2017-06-3022
2017-07-074
2017-07-1425
2017-07-2128
2017-07-2860
2017-08-0418
2017-08-1119
2017-08-1811
2017-08-2531
2017-09-0113
2017-09-087
2017-09-1513
2017-09-2224
2017-09-2941
2017-10-0634
2017-10-1331
2017-10-2056
2017-10-2726
2017-11-0332
2017-11-1025
2017-11-176
2017-11-2411
2017-12-0130
2017-12-0838
2017-12-159
2017-12-2229
2017-12-2929
2018-01-059
2018-01-1237
2018-01-1918
2018-01-2626
2018-02-0224
2018-02-0916
2018-02-1633
2018-02-2344
2018-03-0236
2018-03-0960
2018-03-1629
2018-03-2336
2018-03-3022
2018-04-0634
2018-04-1319
2018-04-2034
2018-04-2737
2018-05-0427
2018-05-1116
2018-05-1825
2018-05-2527
2018-06-0134
2018-06-0826
2018-06-1545
2018-06-22102
2018-06-2999
2018-07-0642
2018-07-1356
2018-07-2055
2018-07-2775
2018-08-03132
2018-08-1030
2018-08-1749
2018-08-2468
2018-08-3184
2018-09-07117
2018-09-1410
2018-09-2173
2018-09-2869
2018-10-05129
2018-10-12171
2018-10-19140
2018-10-26173
2018-11-02240
2018-11-09112
2018-11-1651
2018-11-2329
2018-11-3091
2018-12-0721
2018-12-1431
2018-12-2119
2018-12-2839
2019-01-0478
2019-01-1152
2019-01-1842
2019-01-2529
2019-02-0186
2019-02-0825
2019-02-1575
2019-02-2222
2019-03-01112
2019-03-0824
2019-03-1542
2019-03-2256
2019-03-2973
2019-04-05105
2019-04-1212
2019-04-1932
2019-04-2686
2019-05-0331
2019-05-1066
2019-05-1772
2019-05-2469
2019-05-3127
(Toronto Star source was dated June 2019)

(data unavailable for June and early July)

2019-07-1960
2019-07-2676
2019-08-0260
2019-08-0921
2019-08-1670
2019-08-2356
2019-08-3060
2019-09-0641
2019-09-1392
2019-09-2074
2019-09-2762
2019-10-0463
2019-10-11101
2019-10-18116
2019-10-2596
2019-11-0147
2019-11-0867
2019-11-1561
2019-11-2254
2019-11-2944
2019-12-0649
2019-12-1349
2019-12-2067
2019-12-2723
2020-01-0315
2020-01-1078
2020-01-1740
2020-01-2455
2020-01-3155
2020-02-0737
2020-02-1455
2020-02-2157
2020-02-2833

(CNN source was dated March 9, 2020)

Daniel Dale's (CNN) original source specified numbers daily; uploader added the values within each week to arrive at the foregoing weekly figures, with each week ending on a Friday to conform to Dale's earlier work at Toronto Star which also ended on Fridays.

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current	05:34, 9 February 2021	2,332 × 2,657 (597 KB)	RCraig09	Version 17: updating to include data for January 2021. Squaring off tops of columns and narrowing gaps between columns. Reduced filesize at tinypng.com
	07:31, 16 January 2021	2,332 × 2,657 (560 KB)	RCraig09	Version 16: Adding datapoints for Nov and Dec 2020. Reducing PNG filesize at tinypng.com (reduces number of bits per pixel).
	23:20, 5 January 2021	2,332 × 2,657 (1.64 MB)	RCraig09	Version 15: Update to include Washington Post date through end of October 2020.
	23:20, 20 December 2020	2,332 × 2,657 (1.67 MB)	RCraig09	Version 14: Updated to include Washington Post data through end of September 2020.
	07:21, 16 November 2020	2,332 × 2,657 (1.66 MB)	RCraig09	Version 13: Updating graph to include exact value for August 2020 that no longer involves extrapolation for the last four days of the month. Washington Post added a few more days to their database.
	23:06, 21 October 2020	2,332 × 2,657 (1.66 MB)	RCraig09	Version 12: Updating to include July and August data from Washington Post. Top panel's vertical had to be compressed to accommodate new high in data value (for August 2020).
	06:01, 13 July 2020	2,332 × 2,657 (1.43 MB)	RCraig09	Update to include Washington Post data through end of June 2020.
	05:09, 5 June 2020	2,332 × 2,657 (1.49 MB)	RCraig09	Version 10: Update to include Washington Post data for April and May 2020
	21:12, 15 April 2020	2,332 × 2,657 (1.77 MB)	RCraig09	Version 9: Updating with CNN Daniel Dale data for Jan and Feb 2020.
	05:35, 15 April 2020	2,332 × 2,657 (1.83 MB)	RCraig09	Version 8: Adding "monthly" and "weekly" to vertical axes.