President Trump made 8,158 false or misleading claims in his first two years

The Fact Checker is keeping a running list of the false or misleading claims Trump says most regularly. Here’s our latest tally as of Jan. 20, 2019. (Meg Kelly/The Washington Post)

Two years after taking the oath of office, President Trump has made 8,158 false or misleading claims, according to The Fact Checker’s database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement uttered by the president.

That includes an astonishing 6,000-plus such claims in the president’s second year.

Put another way: The president averaged nearly 5.9 false or misleading claims a day in his first year in office. But he hit nearly 16.5 a day in his second year, almost triple the pace.

View the complete January 21 article by Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly on The Washington Post website here.