WASHINGTON—For years, Donald Trump has rejected the fact that global temperatures are warming. Until last week, though, he had not been asked for his thoughts on the issue by anyone who has interviewed him during his presidency.

Piers Morgan asked. Trump’s answer was a dishonest doozy.

First, Trump told Morgan, who interviewed him for Britain’s ITV, that scientists had stopped using “global warming” and started using “climate change” because “it was getting too cold all over the place.”

Nope. Both terms have long been used in different contexts; both continue to be used; and the world is, yes, warming, not getting colder.

Second, Trump claimed: “The ice caps were going to melt, they were going to be gone by now, but now they’re setting records, OK? They’re at a record level.”

Contrary to Trump’s suggestion, the ice caps continue to melt. The only records they are setting are for their shrunken size: “Sea Ice Extent Sinks to Record Lows at Both Poles,” read a headline on the website of NASA, an arm of the U.S. government, in March 2017.

Trump made five additional false claims to Morgan. He made eight more in an interview with CNBC. And he made 11 more over the course of the week, bringing his total for the seven-day period to 26.

Trump has now made 1,101 false claims over the first 374 days of his presidency, an average of 2.9 per day.

If Trump is a serial liar, why call this a list of “false claims,” not lies? The answer is that we can’t be sure that each and every one was intentional. In some cases, he may have been confused or ignorant. What we know, objectively, is that he was not telling the truth.

Correction – January 31, 2018: This article was edited from a previous version that misstated the number of days of Donald Trump’s presidency as 394.

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