President Donald Trump tells a lot of lies. Trump also regularly accuses others of lying.
And sometimes he does both at once – telling a lie about something while accusing someone else of lying about it. In other words, the president has been dishonest even about others’ honesty.
It’s a subset of his years-old “I know you are but what am I?” tactic of trying to turn common criticisms of him against his opponents. And he’s used it a bunch this fall.
One perfect example: Trump has repeatedly alleged that Democrats are lying when they correctly say overall prices and grocery prices are up during his second presidency – even though it is Trump who is lying when he says overall prices and grocery prices are down.
“The problem with the Democrats: they lie. They do it so well. They talk about affordability, but I’m the one that’s getting the prices down,” he told reporters Sunday, though overall prices were 3% higher in September than they were in September 2024 and 1.7% higher than they were in January 2025, the month he returned to office. “More than anything else, it’s a con job by the Democrats,” since “costs are way down,” Trump falsely said last week on Fox News.
Then, on Monday morning, Trump claimed on social media that Christopher Wray, whom he appointed as FBI director during his first term, had “lied!!!” about the deployment of FBI agents on January 6, 2021, the day Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol. But the president’s supposed basis for this claim was a false...
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