Claims & delivery
What was said, counted separately from what was done.
Standing rule: no scores. Color marks whether something is in force, reversed, contested, concluded, or permanent — not good or bad.
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- Color is a legal fact, not an opinion. It shows — whether something is still in force, was reversed, or is contested in court — never whether it was good or bad.
- Every number links to its source and to how strongly it can be tied to the action () — click any figure to see the full evidence.
- Nothing here is scored, graded, or ranked. When two credible sources disagree, this archive shows both numbers instead of picking one.
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Read this before the numbers
Statements and actions are different kinds of evidence and this archive keeps them apart. A claim count measures what was said. Every other view measures what was done and what changed. Adding the two together produces a composite score — the exact thing this archive exists to avoid.
Documented false or misleading claims
Numbers circulating about this number
Misinformation runs in both directions
"85,654 false statements, about 169 per day"FabricatedA graphic circulating in July 2026. No dataset, methodology or source exists behind it. The Post’s database — the only systematic count ever run — ended in January 2021 at 30,573, and no successor project has published a cumulative second-term total.
"Over 50,000 lies"UnsupportedAlso circulating without a source. Any figure above 30,573 is either an extrapolation someone performed privately or an invention. Neither is a measurement.
"30,573 lies"MislabeledThe number is real; the word is not the Post’s. Its label is "false or misleading claims," which describes the statement rather than the speaker’s intent. Intent is not observable, and no methodology establishes it.
"The count was debunked"FalseThe database is public, dated and itemised. Its methodology has been criticised — for splitting compound statements and for subjective thresholds on "misleading" — but criticism of method is not refutation, and no competing count has contradicted the trend.
A tracker that only corrects in one direction is a campaign. The real figure is large enough without inflation, and inflating it hands anyone who checks a reason to dismiss the whole record.
The rate rose every year
Claims per day, by year of the first term. This trend is the durable finding — more robust than the precise total, because it survives any reasonable change to the counting rule.
Year 16 / day
Year 216 / day
Year 322 / day
Year 439 / day
What this number is and is not
It counts statements, not policies
This tally belongs in a different register from every entry in this archive. An entry records an action and its measured effect; a claim count records what was said. Mixing them produces exactly the kind of composite score this archive refuses to build.
"False or misleading" is not a finding of lying
The Fact Checker’s label describes the statement, not the speaker’s intent. Popular shorthand converts the number into "lies"; the database does not, and neither does this page. Intent is not observable and no methodology establishes it.
The counting rule compresses the total
One claim per topic per venue. A falsehood repeated forty times in one speech counts once. The true number of individual false utterances is therefore substantially higher than 30,573 — the figure understates rather than inflates.
One outlet, one editorial standard
A single newsroom made every inclusion decision. That is a real limitation, and no competing database of comparable scale exists to check it against. Treat the trend line as more robust than the precise total.
No second-term number — and we will not invent one
The database closed in January 2021. Any figure circulating for 2025–2026 is either an extrapolation or a different methodology. This archive records the absence rather than filling it, which is the same rule applied to the Iran damage assessment.
What he actually did — every entry, sorted by
34
Enacted, implemented, and in force today. This is the operative answer to "what has he actually done."
7
Cannot be undone by a successor — lifetime appointments and completed withdrawals.
26
Implemented in part, or blocked in part, with active litigation.
11
Struck down, rescinded, or enjoined before taking effect.
13
Ran its course; effects are historical.
Promises tracked to outcome
Sampling warning — read before quoting this section
This archive tracks 17 promises. A real campaign makes hundreds, including many that were kept without controversy. These were selected because each is unusually well documented and unusually consequential — which is a selection biased toward significance, not toward outcome. Do not read this panel as a kept-versus-broken rate. Doing so would be a misuse of the data, and the honest thing is to say so on the page rather than in a footnote.