U.S. President Donald Trump did an interview with TIME magazine on Wednesday to discuss the subject of his untruthfulness. In the interview, he vigorously denied that he is untruthful — and said at least 14 false things. (We’ll allow him some rhetorical licence on a few others. For the Star’s complete list of his false claims as president, visit thestar.com/trumpcheck.)

1. The claim: “Sweden. I make the statement, everyone goes crazy. The next day they have a massive riot, and death, and problems.”

In fact: Nobody died in the Sweden riot that occurred two days after Trump falsely suggested that a terrorist incident had occurred in Sweden the previous night.

2. The claim: “NATO, obsolete, because it doesn’t cover terrorism. They fixed that.”

In fact: NATO has long addressed terrorism.

3. The claim: “…and I said that the allies must pay. Nobody knew that they weren’t paying. I did. I figured it.”

In fact: Barack Obama, among many other Americans, chided NATO allies for failing to meet a guideline of spending 2 per cent of their gross domestic product on defence. The fact that several NATO countries do not meet the guideline was widely known.

4. The claim: “Brexit, I was totally right about that. You were over there I think, when I predicted that, right, the day before.”

In fact: Trump did not predict Brexit the day before; the day before the vote, he said, “I don’t think anybody should listen to me (because) I haven’t really focused on it very much,” but that his “inclination” would be that Britain should vote to leave the European Union. This was a recommendation, not a prediction.

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5. The claim: “Now remember this. When I said wiretapping, it was in quotes.”

In fact: Trump did use the word in quotation marks in two of his four tweets falsely alleging that Barack Obama had spied on him, but he also made the same allegation without quotation marks in the two other tweets.

6. The claim: “Here, headline, for the front page of the New York Times, ‘Wiretapped data used in inquiry of Trump aides.’ That’s a headline. Now they then dropped that headline, I never saw this until this morning. They then dropped that headline, and they used another headline without the word wiretap, but they did mean wiretap. Wiretapped data used in inquiry. Then changed after that, they probably didn’t like it. And they changed the title. They took the wiretap word out.”

In fact: The Times never changed its headline; it simply used different words in its print and online headlines, which is normal.

7. The claim: “I mean mostly they register wrong, in other words, for the votes, they register incorrectly, and/or illegally. And they then vote. You have tremendous numbers of people.”

In fact: Every credible expert, including Republican secretaries of state for individual states, says the number of people voting illegally is tiny.

8. The repeated claim: “Brexit, I predicted Brexit, you remember that, the day before the event. I said, no Brexit is going to happen, and everybody laughed, and Brexit happened.”

In fact: Nope.

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9. The claim: On his campaign claim that Ted Cruz’s father was seen with Lee Harvey Oswald: “But that was in the newspaper. I wasn’t, I didn’t say that. I was referring to a newspaper … I’m just quoting the newspaper.”

In fact: The newspaper in question is the National Enquirer — and when he made the claim, Trump did not make clear that he was quoting the Enquirer. He said directly: “His father was with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to Oswald’s being — you know, shot. I mean, the whole thing is ridiculous.”

10. The claim: “I went to Kentucky two nights ago, we had 25,000 people in a massive basketball arena.”

In fact: The capacity of the arena is about 18,000.

11. The claim: “I said the day before the opening, but I was saying Brexit was going to pass, and everybody was laughing, and I turned out to be right on that.”

In fact: Still nope.

12. The claim: “And the New York Times and CNN and all of them, they did these polls, which were extremely bad and they turned out to be totally wrong.”

In fact: The final New York Times poll was precisely correct: it had Hillary Clinton winning the national popular vote by 3 per cent; she ended up winning by 3 per cent. CNN’s final poll had her up 5 per cent, still within the margin of error.

13. The claim: “I assume this is going to be a cover too, have I set the record? I guess, right? Covers, nobody’s had more covers.”

In fact: Richard Nixon has the record for most TIME magazine covers: 55. Trump has not appeared on the cover even half that many times.

14. The repeated claim:“Wiretapped data used in inquiry of Trump aides. OK? Can you possibly put that down? Front page, January 20th. Now in their second editions, they took it all down under the internet. They took that out. OK?”

In fact: Still nope.

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