Watch as Trump Manages to Lie Four Times in a Span of Only 45 Words

Even the most ardent MAGA supporters of President Donald Trump could probably acknowledge that the man is a world-class liar, at least from the perspective of volume of lies produced in the course of his daily spiels aimed at the American public. He lies so effortlessly, so naturally, that dynamiting the facts in any given conversation is something he just does as a bodily function at this point. Often, the lies don’t even serve any clear purpose–he’ll lie about tiny details that don’t altar the substance of an argument, making you wonder why such a falsehood could possibly be worth it. Perhaps the overarching goal is to simply devalue the very idea of lying. But even by Trump’s standards, managing to cram four separate, conscious lies into only 45 words of text is still an impressive achievement worth highlighting. See if they immediately jump out at you here, in one of the President’s trademark all-caps, unhinged Truth Social rants.

First of all: How enduringly embarrassing does it remain that this is how the fucking President of the United States makes public addresses? Really, that can never be said enough: The man communicates with all the dignity of a crying toddler. Even when you want to talk about some other aspect of him, your attention is always drawn back to this central fact.

That said, Trump is talking about Colorado’s former Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters, who in the fall of 2024 was sentenced to nine years in prison for engaging in a series of security breaches in the election office she was trusted to oversee. All told, Peter was convicted of four felony counts of attempting to influence a federal servant and conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, along with some bonus misdemeanor counts on other charges, after it was found she breached the county’s elections systems during a 2021 security update because she was looking for proof of debunked claims that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump. At the time of her sentencing, District Judge Matthew Barrett cited the “immeasurable damage” Peters had done to local elections and her total lack of remorse when sentencing her to prison rather than probation, saying the following: “I’m convinced you’d do it all over again if you could. You are a privileged person. You are as privileged as they come. You used that for power and fame.”

So obviously, with that kind of description, Trump loves the lady. He loves her enough, in fact, to tell a whole string of lies for her in an attempt to sway both public opinion and Colorado’s Democratic governor Jared Polis to show leniency or clemency for Peters.

As is so often the case with Trump lies, these ones veer from the weird and pointless, to the purposefully obtuse. First of all, Tina Peters is not 73 years old–she’s 70. She won’t be 71 until September. Trump has to know this, and presumably thinks that by making her sound slightly older, she’ll sound a little bit more pathetic as a prisoner. It’s either that, or the President of the United States doesn’t know how to work a search engine. Secondly, Tina Peters is not “with cancer.” She is a former lung cancer patient, one who had surgery to remove part of a lung a decade ago. She’s reportedly been cancer-free ever since, but again, Trump is desperately attempting to make her sound more feeble and sympathetic, like a mob boss being wheeled into a courtroom in a wheelchair by doting family members.

Thirdly, it should go without saying that Peters was not given a sentence “by a Democratic governor” when she was found guilty by a jury and sentenced by the aforementioned Judge Matthew Barrett. Trump attempts to make it look like his allies are being persecuted by the likes of state governors even when those governors have literally nothing to do with the case. And finally, Peter was of course not sentenced for “exposing fraud by the Democrats during the 2020 presidential election.” That’s what she delusionally believed herself to be doing, only to find nothing and break half a dozen laws in the process of breaking into what were supposed to be secure elections systems in an effort to please Donald Trump. So there you go: Four lies, in 45 words. Only 43 words, in fact, if you don’t count the “73” or “2020.” Potentially a lie-per-word record for the POTUS? Probably not, in all likelihood.

A federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s threat to cut Colorado’s SNAP benefits, finding that it appeared to be retribution over the state’s refusal to pardon convicted election denier Tina Peters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/…

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— Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) Mar 17, 2026 at 1:29 PM

These lies, by the way, aren’t just embarrassing or unbecoming of the Presidency; they’re also rife with real-world consequences. Trump has already granted Tina Peters a federal pardon, but because she was convicted of many state crimes, he’s unable to simply compel her immediate release from jail through his angry, fat-fingered typing. So he’s instead resorted to punishing literally every person in the state of Colorado instead, particularly his own voting base in the south of the state. He recently used his very first executive veto of his second term to veto a unanimously passed bill from Congress that would have helped to provide fresh, clean, non-irradiated drinking water for the Trump-heavy voting populace in southern Colorado, saying that he was keeping the country from “funding expensive and unreliable policies,” and “ending the massive cost of taxpayer handouts and restoring fiscal sanity.” By the way: Today the Pentagon requested $200 billion in taxpayer dollars for the Iran War. In addition to denying Coloradans clean drinking water and vetoing a unanimously passed bill, Trump has also denied multiple FEMA disaster declaration requests, and announced he would arbitrarily close the Boulder, Colorado-based National Center for Atmospheric Research, which conducts research and maintains supercomputers for the federal government and 129 universities. The intent seems to be to indiscriminately hurt the people of Colorado until he’s given what he wants.

Tina Peters: All 66 Democrats in Colorado Legislature sign a letter urging Gov. Jared Polis to deny clemency for the former clerk. Lawmakers argue Peters lacks accountability for her 2024 election security breach conviction, despite pressure from the Trump administration.

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— Flingjore (@flingjore.com) Mar 12, 2026 at 11:42 AM

And sadly, he very well may get what he wants, judging from the recent statements of Colorado governor Jared Polis. The very man Trump is claiming “sentenced” Peters has recently been opining on Twitter that Peters’ sentence seemed “harsh,” and compared it to other convictions that resulted in parole rather than prison time. He’s clearly attempting to test the waters and public reaction to a possible pardon, clemency or reduced sentence, most likely in what he views as a pragmatic move to appease Trump and thus ease the federal government’s arbitrary targeting of his state for reprisals. On one hand, you can see the logical argument here: Release one crook, and maybe Donald Trump will leave your constituents alone. But on the other hand, fuck the appeasement of terrorists. Ironically, even Republican DA Dan Rubinstein, who oversaw the trial that led to Peters’ conviction, doesn’t want the sentence changed. As he put it to Colorado Newsline, changing the sentence “would be a gross injustice to the affected citizens I represent. That range [of sentences] exists because the same offense can be committed in very different ways and can result in very different consequences. The suggestion that everyone convicted under the same statute should receive the same sentence overlooks why the Legislature created a sentence range in the first place: no two crimes and no two defendants are the same.”

I have to assume that Gov. Polis knows that full well, and is merely trying to say, get clean drinking water for his constituents. But giving in to a habitual, serial liar like Donald Trump is a tough pill to swallow, even with potable water.