WASHINGTON—Ahh, Thanksgiving. A time for the president to kick back, watch football, not be serially dishonest…

Donald Trump had other plans.

Trump followed a bizarre-at-times televised phone call to members of the military by making 12 false claims to the reporters who were in the room with him at his Mar-a-Lago club and residence in Florida.

The holiday, it turned out, was his most dishonest day of a relatively quiet week.

Trump made 29 false claims in total, his fewest in more than two months and way down from the pre-midterms rally blitz during which he had weeks of 240 false claims and 173 false claims.

As usual, Trump lied less in large part because he spoke less. He uttered a mere 12,156 words, according to the trackers at the website Factba.se, down from a peak of 80,874 in a week before the midterms.

Trump is now up to 3,833 false claims for the first 675 days of his presidency, an average of 5.7 per day.

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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