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President Trump made 16,241 false or misleading claims in his first three years

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January 20, 2020 at 3:00 a.m. EST
The Fact Checker is keeping a running list of the false or misleading claims Trump says most regularly. Here’s what you need to know. (Video: Meg Kelly/The Washington Post, Photo: Cassidy Araiza for The Washington Post/The Washington Post)

UPDATE: The final count for the Trump claims database is 30,573. For more information, follow this link.

Three years after taking the oath of office, President Trump has made more than 16,200 false or misleading claims — a milestone that would have been unthinkable when we first created the Fact Checker’s database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement he has uttered.