Trump denounces 'lie of the year' award

David Jackson | USA TODAY

Donald Trump doesn't appreciate his award from the PolitiFact website: The 2015 "Lie of the Year."

Trump denounced the fact-checking website as "a totally left-wing group" and said "they are bad news" when it comes to evaluating people's statements.

"You could tell something 100% and they will make it out to a lie if you’re a certain person," Trump said Tuesday on Fox & Friends.

PolitiFact awards a single "lie of the year" annually, but reported that the 2015 contenders came from Trump, and "it was hard to single one out from the others. So we have rolled them into one big trophy."

It added: "PolitiFact has been documenting Trump’s statements on our Truth-O-Meter, where we’ve rated 76 percent of them Mostly False, False or Pants on Fire, out of 77 statements checked. No other politician has as many statements rated so far down on the dial."

Among the cited claims: Trump's statements that American Muslims celebrated after the 9/11 attacks, something the New York businessman stands by.

“Well, you know there were a lot of people, and I’ve had it from a lot of people," Trump told Fox. "We’ve had hundreds of phone calls. We’ve had tweets at @RealDonaldTrump, we’ve had proof."