WASHINGTON—Well, that was a staggeringly dishonest year.

We’ve been fact-checking all of Donald Trump’s statements since his inauguration on Jan. 20, 2017. The final tally for 2017: 1,012 false claims.

That’s an average of 2.9 per day. Historians say there has never been a first-year president so frequently dishonest.

The Star will continue to update its database in 2018. You can find the full, interactive list here.

Here are the 10 false claims Trump made most frequently last year. (His wording sometimes varied, so we’ve chosen a representative quote for each of them.)

1) “We’re the highest-taxed nation in the world.” (27 times)

Even before Trump’s late-year tax cut, U.S. taxation was below average for industrialized countries.

Said on: May 5, May 11, June 21, July 12, July 25, July 25, Sep. 6, Sep. 6, Sep. 28, Oct. 6, Oct. 6, Oct. 7, Oct. 9, Oct. 16, Oct. 16, Oct. 17, Oct. 17, Oct. 17, Oct. 17, Oct. 18, Oct. 24, Oct. 25, Nov. 1, Nov. 1, Nov. 2, Nov. 5 and Nov. 20

2) “Obamacare is finished. It’s dead. It’s gone.” (26 times)

Trump was making this claim even before he did anything to change the law. Though he managed to repeal a significant chunk of Obamacare late in the year, eliminating the “individual mandate” that forces people to pay a penalty if they do not obtain health insurance, the other major components of Barack Obama’s policy remain in place.

Said on: March 17, April 12, April 30, April 30, May 4, May 4, May 5, May 5, May 7, May 11, May 13, May 18, May 28, June 7, June 7, June 8, June 19, June 21, June 28, July 18, July 22, July 24, Aug. 22, Oct. 7, Oct. 16 and Oct. 17

3) “We’re going to be bringing back into this country probably an excess of $4 trillion — $4 trillion — that’s outside of the country that right now, because of our tax laws, can’t come back in.” (21 times)

Trump sometimes went up to “$5 trillion.” Even $4 trillion is a gross exaggeration: the highest expert estimate for the amount of profits parked overseas by U.S. companies is $3.1 trillion — and experts say not even close to the entire sum will be returned to the U.S. because of Trump’s tax law.

Said on: July 25, Aug. 30, Sep. 5, Sep. 6, Oct. 24, Oct. 25, Oct. 25, Oct. 31, Nov. 1, Nov. 2, Nov. 2, Nov. 27, Nov. 28, Nov. 30, Dec. 6, Dec. 8, Dec. 13, Dec. 16, Dec. 20, Dec. 20 and Dec. 22

4) “We’ve signed more bills — and I’m talking about through the legislature — than any president ever.” (19 times)

Not even close. According to the legislative tracking website GovTrack, Trump had signed fewer bills at the end of his first year than every elected president from Eisenhower onward: Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, H.W. Bush, Clinton, W. Bush, and Obama.

Said on: June 12, June 13, July 12, July 17, July 19, July 25, July 25, Aug. 22, Aug. 22, Oct. 6, Oct. 17, Nov. 2, Nov. 5, Nov. 26, Nov. 30, Dec. 22, Dec. 22, Dec. 23 and Dec. 27

5) “I have already saved more than $700 million when I got involved in the negotiation on the F-35. You know about that.” (13 times)

Trump did not personally secure these cost savings, aviation and defence experts say.

Said on: Jan. 30, Feb. 6, Feb. 18, Feb. 27, Feb. 28, March 15, March 20, April 23, May 2, May 11, Sep. 29, Oct. 3 and Oct. 6

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6) “China is at 15 per cent, and we wonder why are we not competing well against China. So they’re at 15 per cent and we’re at 35 per cent plus. And that doesn’t work.” (13 times)

China has a business tax rate of 25 per cent. It offers a 15 per cent rate only to certain firms, mostly in the high-tech sector, in about 20 particular cities.

Said on: Sep. 13, Sep. 13, Sep. 13, Sep. 28, Oct. 6, Oct. 11, Oct. 16, Oct. 17, Oct. 17, Nov. 2, Nov. 28, Dec. 5 and Dec. 6

7) “Immigration went down 78 per cent at the border — 78 per cent at the border.” (12 times)

There has never been any basis for Trump’s “78 per cent” figure. Comparing the first eight full months of Trump’s tenure to the same months in 2016, immigration apprehensions at the southwestern border were down 53 per cent, not 78 per cent.

Said on: July 25, July 25, July 28, July 31, Aug. 10, Aug. 22, Aug. 28, Aug. 30, Oct. 11, Oct. 22, Nov. 20 and Dec. 8

8) “Everybody said there’s no collusion. If you look at the counsels that come in, we have a Senate hearing — we have Judiciary, we have Intelligence. So we have a House hearing. And everybody walks out, even the enemies, they said ‘No, well, there’s no collusion, there’s no collusion.’” (11 times)

Trump is entitled to claim that there was no collusion between his campaign and the Russian government, but he cannot accurately say that everyone else, including his opponents, has agreed with him.

Said on: May 13, May 18, Aug. 10, Oct. 6, Oct. 16, Oct. 27, Nov. 11, Dec. 15, Dec. 15, Dec. 28 and Dec. 28

9) “The Electoral College is almost impossible for a Republican to win.” (11 times)

This is, of course, nonsensical. Six of the last nine presidents, all of whom except for Gerald Ford had to win election through the Electoral College, have been Republicans.

Said on: April 4, April 16, April 23, May 11, June 9, July 24, Sep. 22, Oct. 11, Oct. 16, Oct. 25 and Dec. 28

10) “We’ve achieved a historic increase in defence spending to get our troops the support they so richly deserve.” (10 times)

Trump’s increase was far from historic. “In just the past 40 years, there have been eight years with larger increases in percentage terms than the one he’s now proposing,” the Associated Press reported.

Said on: Feb. 28, March 2, March 15, May 21, May 27, June 8, June 21, July 25, Aug. 10 and Aug. 22

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