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   Jose' Francisco de Paula Juan  Soto wrote:   
      
   >And the left still continues to deny the obvious which is the legacy   
   >media is nothing more than the publicity department of the DNC.   
   >   
   >'95 Trump moves from 2025 you didn't hear about from legacy media   
   >   
      
   Traitor.  You forgot to mention him stopping all those wars on his first   
   day in office.   Trump's says it's enemies like you who make him a   
   perpetual victim.   
      
    Read about all the wonderful accomplishments he's done that are being   
   ignored by the big Conservative media, including Breitbart and Fox News.   
      
   Just like his first presidency, President Donald Trump's first calendar   
   year back in the White House was an unceasing parade of lies. In 2025,   
   though, the variety of Trump's false claims shrunk even as he maintained   
   his trademark staggering frequency.   
      
   Trump's lying has always been characterized by dogged repetition. It became   
   especially repetitive in 2025. While he continued to regularly sprinkle in   
   new lies, he relied on a core set of go-to fabrications he deployed   
   virtually no matter the setting and no matter how many times they had been   
   debunked.   
      
   Did you hear the one about how Trump secured $17 trillion or $18 trillion   
   in investment? You probably did if you watched even a few Trump speeches or   
   interviews. Same with the one about how consumer prices have fallen this   
   year, the one about how Trump ended seven or eight wars, and the one about   
   how foreign leaders around the world emptied their prisons and mental   
   institutions to send unwanted citizens across the US border as migrants.   
      
   Here is our highly subjective list of Trump's top 25 lies of 2025. We chose   
   some because the president repeated them particularly often, some because   
   they were about notably consequential topics, and some because they were   
   especially egregious in their distance from reality.   
   Vehicles line a shipping terminal at the Port of Oakland in California, on   
   April 15.   
      
   Lie: Trump secured $17 trillion or $18 trillion in investment in 2025   
      
   The president who loves big numbers, even if they're fake, had a fictional   
   figure he cited in speech after speech: a claim that he had secured "$17   
   trillion" in investment in the US in less than a year back in the White   
   House. It didn't help Trump's case that the White House's own website said   
   at the time that it was actually $8.8 trillion – and even that figure was   
   wildly inflated – but he proceeded to increase his claim to "$18 trillion"   
   even though the website still had it under $10 trillion.   
      
   Lie: 'Every price is down'   
      
   Trump lied even about subjects that everyday people could themselves see he   
   was lying about. He claimed in the fall that there was "no inflation, "   
   though there was inflation; that "every price is down, " though prices were   
   up on thousands of products; that grocery prices were "way down, " though   
   they were up; and that beef was the only grocery item that had gotten more   
   expensive, though there were dozens of others. Polls showed most Americans   
   weren't buying his assertions.   
      
   Lie: Trump was reducing prescription drug prices by '2,000%, 3,000%'   
      
   Trump deployed not only implausible figures but impossible figures. He   
   declared on numerous occasions that his "most favored nation" policy was   
   going to bring down the price of prescription drugs by "500%" or more,   
   sometimes "1,400 to 1,500%" or even "2,000%, 3,000%. " These claims are   
   debunked by math itself – a decline of more than 100% would mean that   
   Americans would get paid to acquire their medications – but the president   
   kept making them even though he could have simply touted real (less-than-   
   100%) price reductions on some drugs.   
      
   Lie: Foreign countries pay the US government's tariffs   
      
   As consumer prices continued to rise, in part because of Trump's sweeping   
   tariffs on imported products, Trump clung to his familiar lie that these   
   tariffs are paid by foreign countries, not by people or companies in the   
   US. (The tariff payments to the government are made by US importers, not   
   foreign exporters, and importers often pass on some or all of the added   
   costs to the final consumer. ) The president essentially fact-checked   
   himself in November, when he told an interviewer that he would lower   
   Americans' coffee prices by lowering his tariffs on imported coffee.   
   An anti-ICE protester holds an American flag near the US Immigration and   
   Customs Enforcement building in Portland, Oregon, on October 18.   
      
   Lie: Portland was 'burning down'   
      
   The president repeatedly said an American city was "burning down" or   
   "burning to the ground" even though it was absolutely not burning down or   
   burning to the ground. Sporadic clashes between protesters and law   
   enforcement outside one Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in   
   Portland did not mean a 145-square-mile city was ablaze – as Portland   
   residents, officials and media outlets kept noting as he kept lying.   
      
   Lie: Washington, DC had no murders for six months   
      
   The president continued his long-established pattern of choosing dramatic   
   untruths over facts that would have been useful to him if he had just   
   stated them accurately. Instead of correctly noting that crime in   
   Washington, DC, declined after his federal takeover of law enforcement   
   there in August, he falsely claimed three times in a November speech that   
   the capital hadn't had a single murder "in six months. " Washington   
   actually had more than 50 homicides over the six months prior to the   
   speech, police statistics and Washington Post tracking show.   
      
   Lie: 'I invaded Los Angeles and we opened up the water'   
      
   Trump lied about a supposed problem and then lied about his supposed   
   solution to it. During his pre-inauguration transition period in January,   
   the president baselessly linked wildfires in Los Angeles to a completely   
   unrelated effort to use some of California's water to protect a fish   
   species hundreds of miles to the north. Then, as president in March, he   
   conjured up a heroic tale: "I broke into Los Angeles. Can you believe it? I   
   had a break-in. I invaded Los Angeles and we opened up the water and the   
   water is now flowing down. " What Trump actually did was pull a stunt   
   unrelated to Los Angeles, pointlessly sending about two billion gallons of   
   water from one part of California's Central Valley to another part of that   
   valley.   
      
   Lie: The Democratic governor of Maryland called Trump 'the greatest   
   president of my lifetime'   
      
   It was a trivial lie, but it was notable for its brazenness. After   
   Democratic Maryland Gov. Wes Moore pushed back against Trump's assertions   
   about public safety in Baltimore, Trump claimed that when he previously met   
   Moore in private at the Army-Navy football game, Moore told him, "Sir,   
      
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