US President Donald Trump has unique relationship with lying and he often takes recourse to exaggerator the numbers.He has made many false or misleading statements,
Commentators and fact-checkers have described this as "unprecedented" in American politics and the consistency of these falsehoods has become a distinctive part of both his business and political identity.
Trump is known to have made controversial statements and subsequently deny having done so, so frequently that by June 2019, many news organizations had started calling him habitual liar. The Washington Post said his frequent repetition of false claims amounts to a campaign based on disinformation.
Remember when he was sworn-in in 2016 as president, he wildly exaggerated the number of people attending his inauguration with photo shopped images. That was enough to throw light on his relationship with numbers.
Later, US president claimed that all migrants were promptly removed, However, fact is that there is a 1 million immigration court case backlog. It means many migrants still wait up to three years before a court hearing before a judge will determine whether someone is deported. And after a judge rules a migrant deported, travel papers must be obtained, which often leads to further delays.
In his defense that he made America great again, Trump took credit for an energy boom that actually began under Barack Obama. He inflated manufacturing gains, misrepresented policy on migrant detention and glossed over a rate of economic growth that was yet to reach the scale he promised.
Now as he heads for his first official visit to India, Trump bragged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has promised him 7 million people between the airport and his reception event in Ahmedabad.
"We're not treated very well by India, but I happen to like Prime Minister Modi a lot. And he told me we'll have 7 million people between the airport and the event," Mr Trump said, referring to a roadshow ahead of a "Namaste Trump" rally in Ahmedabad, the main city in Gujarat where he will begin the trip.
The inflated claim, quickly sparked a wave of sarcasm and scepticism on Twitter. Many reminded US president that Ahmedabad's population in the last 2011 census was 55 lakh or 5.5 million . So Mr Trump's claim is over-exaggerated
Modi is going to regret making that random “7 million people” promise to Trump. He's hung up on it like a baby. Twitter users have called out the US president for once again taking liberties with
facts.
That's how Trump is and he claims to be PM Modi best friend.
(Chander Sharma)
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