Kimmel Made a 5-Minute Documentary About All of Trump’s Best Lies

[contfnewc] Congratulations are in order for Donald Trump, who has managed a groundbreaking achievem..

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Congratulations are in order for Donald Trump, who has managed a groundbreaking achievement as president: in less than a year since taking office, the president has lied more than 2,000 times, according to The Washington Post. For a presidency with so few concrete achievements, that’s cause enough for celebration. So Jimmy Kimmel went ahead and made a commemorative documentary for this very special occasion—recruiting “experts,” including a (fake) Washington Post fact-checker, to tell a full, riveting story recapping all of Trump’s best lies in office.

“He is, quite simply, the Babe Ruth of bullshit,” Post fact-checker character Geoffrey Russk says early on in the short doc, titled Pants of Fire: The Road to 2,000 Lies. “He is the greatest liar of all time.”

As Kimmel’s experts noted, Trump got off to a blistering start, logging lie after lie in the days following his inauguration: he lied about the weather at the ceremony; the crowd size; his victory margin over Hillary Clinton. “What do you compare it to?” Russk wonders aloud in the doc. “Michael Phelps in ‘08? Roger Bannister running the four-minute mile? A young Tiger Woods? It’s unfathomable.”

The most surreal part of all of this is how much time the president has left to tell even more lies. As epistemology professor “Jakob Milden” noted, “He’s got three more years. Or maybe even seven. Or maybe six months. Who the hell knows?”

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