Around 75% of the 960 Trump statements fact-checked by PolitiFact since 2011 have been...
Every year, PolitiFact editors select the falsehood that played the most significant role in undermining truth and name it the Lie of the Year.
In 2019, he again received Lie of the Year after claiming a whistleblower got his call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy"almost completely wrong," despite evidence showing otherwise. He shared in the 2020 Lie of the Year for his downplay of the coronavirus threat and embrace of conspiracy theories about the virus.
Trump has the worst record of any politician fact-checked by PolitiFact. Around 75 percent of Trump’s claims have landed on the bottom half of our rating scale — Mostly False, False and Pants on Fire! False is his most common rating, with 356 claims rated that way.
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