WASHINGTON—U.S. President Donald Trump took the stage at the 100th convention of the American Farm Bureau and said, “I know you have a record crowd. That’s nice. It’s always nice to set records.”

It was not a record crowd. It was not even close to a record crowd. Will Rodger, a spokesperson for the Farm Bureau, told us that the crowd was “one of the largest in recent years,” but that the attendance of about 6,000 was “perhaps half of what it was several decades ago, when the farming population was larger. ”

Trump’s speech did not get any more honest from there. He made 19 more false claims — repeatedly abandoning his prepared text, as he does at the campaign rallies he hasn’t held in a while, to add in his own nonsense.

The speech was the most dishonest part of a 43-false-claim week to end his second year in office. In every measurable way, the second year was way more dishonest than the first. Trump made 3,135 false claims, 8.6 per day. That is almost three times as many as he made in his first year, when he averaged 2.9 per day.

We’ll publish a full breakdown of the year later this week.

Trump is now up to 4,210 false claims for the first 731 days of his presidency, an average of 5.8 per day.

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If Trump is a serial liar, why call this a list of “false claims,” not lies? You can read our detailed explanation here. The short 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.

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