Trump Goes On Debunked Social Security Rant In Joint Address
By: Tommy Christopher
americans deserve so much better that having an incompetent and lying POS like trumpski in the white house ...
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President Donald Trump went on a wild rant about millions of 130-year-old-plus Americans committing "possible fraud" by drawing Social Security checks — a claim that has been repeatedly debunked — during his address to Congress.
Trump has been promoting the Elon Musk-fueled fiction for weeks, claiming that Social Security rolls with millions of people with no death record are an indication of potential rampant fraud. It's actually a function of digital death records not being a thing until relatively recently.
But that didn't stop Trump's rant from making the species jump to his address to a joint session of Congress:
We're also identifying shocking levels of incompetence and probable fraud in the Social Security program for our seniors, and that our seniors and people that we love rely on.
Believe it or not, government databases list 4.7 million Social Security members from people aged 100 to 109 years old. Oh oh. It lists 3.6 million people from ages 110 to 119.
I don't know any of them. I know some people that are rather elderly, but not quite that elderly.
3.47 million people from ages 120 to 129, 3.9 million people from ages 130 to 139. 3.5 million people from ages 140 to 149.
And money is being paid to many of them. And we're searching right now. Fact. Pam. Good luck. Good luck. You're going to find it.
But a lot of money is paid out to people because it just keeps getting paid and paid and nobody does-. And it really hurts Social Security and hurts our country.
1.3 million people from ages 150 to 159 and over 130,000 people, according to the Social security databases, are age over 160 years old.
We have a healthier country than I thought Bobby.
(LAUGHTER)
Including, to finish, 1039 people between the ages of 220 and 229, one person between the age of 240 and 249, and one person is listed at 360 years of age, more than 100 years, more than 100 years older than our country.
The claim has been debunked repeatedly by many outlets, including the Associated Press:
So are tens of millions of people over 100 years old receiving benefits?
No.
Part of the confusion comes from Social Security's software system based on the COBOL programming language, which has a lack of date type. This means that some entries with missing or incomplete birthdates will default to a reference point of more than 150 years ago. The news organization WIRED first reported on the use of COBOL programming language at the Social Security Administration.
Additionally, a series of reports from the Social Security Administration's inspector general in March 2023 and July 2024 state that the agency has not established a new system to properly annotate death information in its database, which included roughly 18.9 million Social Security numbers of people born in 1920 or earlier but were not marked as deceased. This does not mean, however, that these individuals were receiving benefits.
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the 47th POTUS, criminal, traitor, and bullshit artist ...
Apparently, his gullible flock think his bovine poop fingerpainting is "Genius" and they're lining up to get signed copies...
that's the scent of power that most maga respond to best ...
It really is as if nearly half the country has gone nose blind. There is simply no way a foul felon like Trump could have been elected just a decade ago. While I didn't agree with John McCain or Mitt Romney, they were respected legislators, McCain being a veteran and war hero. But the party they belong to is now milling about a large barn like museum with Trump poo paintings covering the walls and Republicans are giving each other their in depth praise of Trump and his sparse use of blank space amidst his tiny finger poop smears. True Trump connoisseurs are wafting the arts smell into their nostrils breathing in the fecal matter-filled air.
he kind of looks like he's getting to fellate king kong in that picture ...
How can anyone still believe this idiot? How can they continue to defend this idiot?
Just amazing. What is this magical power Trump has over some minds?
... he's mastered the ways to exploit those 5 points on either side of his IQ range. looks like I won't be traveling outside of the country anytime soon, since the rest of the world now thinks americans are just as willfully ignorant as trumpski is ...
Does he collect SS?