President Trump has never told a lie

1. The empirical record: thousands of flagged false or misleading statements

Long-form compilations and fact‑checking projects have recorded an extraordinary volume of false or misleading claims from Trump: The Washington Post’s database (summarized in Wikipedia) documented tens of thousands of false or misleading claims during his first term, and other journalists and outlets maintain exhaustive lists of Trump statements later judged false by fact‑checkers ^{[1] [4]}. FactCheck.org and PolitiFact continue to publish individual fact‑checks showing repeated inaccuracies in policy, economics and anecdote‑level claims ^{[3] [2]}.

2. Recent analyses show the pattern continued into the second term and 2025

Reporting and analysis from late 2024–2025 identify numerous high‑profile falsehoods during Trump’s second term, including claims about prices, tariffs and foreign policy where experts and contemporaneous data contradicted his statements; outlets such as CNN and WRAL compiled "top lies" lists for 2025, and Wikipedia’s second‑term page catalogs many misleading claims ^{[6] [7] [8]}. PBS and other outlets described 2025 as a particularly high year for fact‑checked falsehoods linked to the president and administration ^[5].

3. The "big lie" and the election‑fraud narrative as a central case

One of the most consequential and widely cited examples is the sustained claim that the 2020 election was stolen—an assertion that multiple sources say was false and that helped animate efforts to overturn the election; commentators have characterized this campaign of falsehood as a "big lie" with democratic consequences ^{[1] [9]}. This episode is repeatedly referenced across the available reporting as emblematic of both volume and potential harm from repeated false claims ^{[1] [9]}.

4. Media framing, semantics and the defense that these are not "lies"

Some outlets and observers have debated terminology—labeling statements "false claims" rather than "lies"—and Trump and allies argue media bias or insist on semantic or contextual defenses for disputed statements ^{[4] [5]}. Scholars and journalists who catalog falsehoods often note the difficulty of proving subjective intent to deceive, even when statements are demonstrably untrue, and some in the public sphere resist or reframe fact‑check findings as partisan attacks ^{[4] [10]}.

5. Weighing the claim “has never told a lie” against the evidence

Given the documented databases, repeated fact‑checks and multiple journalistic analyses that identify thousands of false or misleading statements, the claim that "President Trump has never told a lie" is not supported by the available reporting; rather, reporting from major fact‑checkers and news organizations presents a sustained pattern of falsehoods and disputed claims across policy and public remarks ^{[1] [2] [6]}. At the same time, sources show there is an active counter‑narrative that contests labels, highlights media bias, and questions intent—so a strictly partisan audience may reject the verdict of mainstream fact‑checkers even while the documented record remains extensive ^{[4] [5]}.

6. Bottom line and limits of this account

The balance of contemporary fact‑checking and journalistic analysis compiled in the provided reporting contradicts the absolutist statement that Trump has "never told a lie," documenting numerous falsehoods that critics call lies and that many fact‑checkers document as false or misleading ^{[1] [3] [6]}; this answer is limited to the cited reporting and does not adjudicate questions about every single utterance, motive, or legal definition of "lie," which the available sources note is sometimes contested ^{[4] [10]}.