Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Debunking claimed accomplishments of the Trump Administration

In the summer of 2020, a list of supposed accomplishments of the Trump administration's nearly four years in power was circulating on social media. The original list had been modified by probably many different people and had become enormously long.

While appearing at first glance to be largely inaccurate, many people were too overwhelmed by the sheer size of the list to bother challenging it when encountering the list on Facebook. I spent about three days fact checking each claim in the list, which was the genesis of the Fact Check Librarian project.

As the administration of Donald Trump comes to a close in a few short weeks, it is worth reflecting on this list of approximately 80 "accomplishments", most of which are either patently false, exaggerated, or misattributed to Trump. In four years in power, two of which included complete control of all three branches of government, very little was accomplished that can truly be credited to this presidential administration.

The full, fact checked, cited list can be found here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1q6BzPc-OIp_nJTU1FJUjhTnsGqTOxksd/view

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