Around 75% of Trump’s claims have landed on our rating scale’s bottom half: Mostly False, False or Pants on Fire!
. He has spread conspiracy theories, repeated baseless false claims and has been thrice "awarded" PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year. in February 2011 after claiming that people who went to school with then-President Barack Obama "never saw him.
" This was part of Trump’s push of the "birther" conspiracy theory, which baselessly and falsely alleged Obama was not a U.S. citizen and therefore could not be president. Every year, PolitiFact editors select the falsehood that played the most significant role in undermining truth and name it the Lie of the Year.
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