and replace the affordable care act, widely known as obamacare. that collapsed but trump has not given up. let me tell you what my message is. the republican party will soon be known as the party of health care. based on my reporting of this issue, president trump does not understand health care. so, when he dabbles in it, he often runs into falsehoods repeatedly. abby phillip is a cnn white house correspondent. the trump administration is in a lawsuit right now arguing that the affordable care act needs to be scrapped altogether which would incredibly discorrupt the health care system. but when you talk to president trump about health care, he claims h.e.r. trying to preserve protections for pre-existing conditions. all these things are not true based on the position they re taking in court. we will always protect patients with pre-existing conditions. he wants to make the picture seem as best for him politically
system. and i think to the extent that it bolsters him with his base, trump is quite happy to go along with that. china was taking $500 billion a year out of the united states. once again, that s not factual. first of all is the number is exaggerated. it s not 500 billion. last year the trade deficit with china was around $380 billion. and we use for many years $500 billion a year with china. and many other countries we lose bids. it s not a money-losing thing. it just means that we buy more products from china than the chinese buy from the united states. that s a good example of where it s hard to say it s a lie because i think he really believes we are losing that money. if the president says they re holding billions of dollars in our debt, that sounds really bad. and he has paved the way for
each one say different lie. so, when he repeats it, i count it again. it s like baseball statistics except if lying were, like, for hitters what an rbi is. listen to this one, president. trump lies about almost literally everything, every conceivable topic. over six weeks we tracked this summer it was the economy and trade that had become the number one topic. we can t have a $500 billion a year trade deficit. the number is exaggerated. it s not $500 million. what is the effect of the lies? trump has created a situation where a lot of people who still trust him are not going to believe people who are trying to give them important accurate information about their lives, whether that s doctors or scientists who are telling them that climate change is a real problem. because president trump does not adhere to facts, he has no apparent regard for science or
way before the alabama sharpie stuff, trump was already lying about the weather. such as on his first day in office. i have to say the crowd was unbelievable today. you know, i looked at the rain which just never came it s like god was looking down on us. i will tell you. meet daniel dell. if you were there, you know that it rained during his speech. from literally the first week of his presidency, trump and his administration taught us you can t rely on what they re saying about the verify able things we can see with our own lies. daryl was hired as a lie detector. it would mostly stay on twitter. so, i thought i m going to tweet a daily list of how many false things he said. and this is a quantifiable empirical matter. if nancy pelosi was averaging 60 false claims a week, i would probably do a tally too. but the fact is no one else in
undercuts our standing in the world stage. any country that signs a deal with a democrat has to believe that if a republican comes in or vice versa that that agreement is going to stand. that has added yet another reason for the global community to question mr. trump who has threatened military action if iran steps out of line. he tweeted in may, quote, if iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of iran. why shouldn t the iranians worry over what we might do? they might say well, they didn t help the saudis after the saudis were attacked. and then there s russia. putin, what really worries me is how do we know that he won t basically say well i ve gotten away with this on ukraine. he s talking about putin s illegal annexation of crimea which happened during the obama administration. i ve gotten away with this on syria. he s referring to putin s decision to move russian troops