Donald J. Trump is very skilled at spouting total nonsense while keeping a straight face. I already have awarded him three Spoutlys in my blog posts on August 1, 2019, January 7, 2021, and September 25, 2022.
His recent Meet the Press interview made me add a fourth, as shown above. You can watch a one-minute YouTube video from the Lincoln Project here, or view the whole interview there.
There is an article by Daniel Dale and Jack Forrest at CNN on September 17, 2023 titled Fact check: 14 of Trump’s false claims on ‘Meet the Press.’ The ninth is about the price for bacon.
There is another article by Louis Jacobson at POLITIFACT on September 18, 2023 titled Sizzle, fizzle. Donald Trump off on bacon price increase under Joe Biden. Trump had claimed the price of bacon went up five times under Biden, which obviously is nonsense. The FRED data shown above indicate it really went up by about a fifth (20%) with a peak of 30.5%, and currently is up by just 11.5%.
The image of bacon I added to my Spoutly originated at the National Cancer Institute, but I got it here at Wikimedia Commons.
UPDATE: October 2, 2023
There is an article by Nada Tawfik at BBC News today titled Fact-checking Trump's claims about New York fraud trial.
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