‘Unhinged, insensitive and lying’: Trump uses bogus bar graph to spread falsehood about Puerto Rico hurricane aid

Trump shows his racist and hate and anti-Christian side again

Waits for the first to defend him.

It has been long established that a big part of Trump's appeal is to white grievance. People who are not white are always lacking something to this mindset.

There is no way Trump will change. He wants a fighting chance in the election and without the white grievance vote he has none.

Congress has so far distributed only about $11 billion for Puerto Rico, not $91 billion.

"So far." That's the key phrase there.

I would be fine with criticizing Trump's $91 million claim if the criticism weren't so hypocritical. Based on the existing legislation, Puerto Rico could indeed - given time and the right circumstances - see that amount of money eventually. It's not really an invented number. Of course they haven't seen anything close to that yet, so I agree that it's wrong at this time to claim they have been given that much money.

My problem with the criticism is that politicians of all parties (and the media) do this all the time. For example, let's say there is a proposal on the table to increase Medicare spending by 10% for the next budget. Someone else counters with a proposal to increase spending, but only by 5%. Their opponents will claim they are trying to cut Medicare spending by 5% even though it will actually be an increase in spending from the current levels.

These people lie with numbers and it's SOP so I just kind of roll my eyes a little when they see Trump do it and want to call him a liar.

These people lie with numbers and it's SOP so I just kind of roll my eyes a little when they see Trump do it and want to call him a liar.

And  where do you get that, oh Fox and friends

where do you get that, oh Fox and friends

Sorry, I don't watch your shows - especially that one. My understanding is that it comes on at like 3 o'clock in the morning where I live. I'm busy sleeping then.

Since my reference seems unclear to you, I will give you some examples of what I am talking about.

A 5 Percent Discretionary Cut Still Provides Ample Spending

President Trump has  asked each cabinet secretary to propose a plan to cut 5 percent of their agency's budget for next year. Assuming this cut is relative to spending this year (we discuss other assumptions below ), a 5 percent cut would be both reasonable and achievable. Such a cut would reverse only one-third of the spending increases over the past two years. Further, it would still represent a $63 billion increase relative to current law , which would need to be offset .

Obama’s claim that Obamacare has reduced health-care inflation ‘every single year’ since it was passed

In fact, despite the president’s claim of a decrease of every year, the White House’s own chart shows that the 2013 estimate represents a slight uptick from 2012 , when adjusted for inflation and population. As the White House report puts it, “the three years since 2010 will have recorded the three slowest health-care spending growth rates since record keeping began in 1960.” That is impressive, but it is not the same as health costs going down “ every single year” since the law was passed in 2010. . . . 

The president gets even more specific in the second part of his statement — that $180 billion is being saved in the Medicare program . We realize he was speaking extemporaneously at a news conference, but he’s using too much shorthand here. He is referring to a Congressional Budget Office projection for the year 2020, not currently, and this is a combined figure for both Medicare and Medicaid, which totals $188 billion. (In speeches , the president has rendered the statistic correctly.)

In 2020, the CBO report shows, the decrease for Medicare alone would be $120 billion. Obama talks about the $180 billion as if it is current savings, but in the 2014 fiscal year, the estimated savings is just $60 billion.

As you can see, both sides do it.