Repeating it over and over doesn’t make it true
The Guardian says Trump told lie after lie after lie in that Cabinet meeting.
Trump bounced from one falsehood to another while speaking to reporters during his cabinet meeting at the White House.
Here are just a few fact-checks from reporters about the president’s 70-minute meeting:
Trump’s remarks in the Cabinet room are a stream of exaggerations, boasts and falsehoods….
For example, in his remarks about Doral: “Miami International, one of the biggest airports in the world. Some people say it’s the biggest.”
(MIA is not even in the top 20)
That stupid “some people say” thing, as if simple facts like comparative airport size can be decided by “some people saying.”
President Trump on Syria: “We’re having very good news coming out. The ceasefire’s holding.“
Note: U.S. officials have told NBC & CNN that the ceasefire is not holding in Syria.
Repeating it over and over doesn’t make it true. Contrary to what Trump says, the whistleblower complaint was factually quite accurate, according to the White House’s own rough transcript.
Lie after lie after lie after lie.
Size is a matter of opinion. Always has been. That’s why size matters. Because opinion matters. Especially when plonked on Twitter.
Miami is not even the biggest or busiest in Florida FFS.
That surprised me for a second and then I remembered Orlando. Sure enough, it’s #1. I’ve actually been there, when I was on a panel at a CFI conference. The hotel was actually in the airport, so I’ve not just been there, I’ve spent some days there.
Funny thing, all the times I’ve been through O’Hare, I would swear it is bigger than anything in Florida (but not bigger than Trump’s ego).
Last spring I visited family in Miami and I had a connection in Orlando on my return flight. Our first flight was delayed and several of us who were worried about connecting were assured that Orlando was a small airport unlike Miami International and we would not have far to go to get to the gate.
They were wrong, of course. The gate was at the other end of the terminal and we had to run to get to it. I remember thinking ” this is not a small airport” as I huffed and puffed through the equivalent of two city blocks. I only made it because a young man in the group of runners held the door for me.
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