He did it three times in a single speech last month – falsely claiming to have witnessed a bridge collapse in Pittsburgh in 2022 (he actually visited the site more than six hours after the collapse), falsely claiming his grandfather had died just days prior to his own birth at the same hospital (his paternal grandfather died more than a year prior in another state), and again repeating a long-debunked false story about a supposed conversation with an Amtrak conductor who was deceased at the time the story would have had to take place.

In 2021 and 2022, he falsely claimed to have been arrested during a civil rights protest (he had previously said merely that an officer had taken him home from a protest), falsely claimed he “used to drive an 18-wheeler” (the White House said he once had a job driving a different vehicle, a school bus), falsely claimed to have visited the Pittsburgh synagogue where worshippers were killed in a 2018 mass shooting (he had spoken to its rabbi by phone but had not gone), falsely claimed to have visited Iraq and Afghanistan as president (he made repeated visits as a senator and vice president but not as president), told a false story involving a late relative and the Purple Heart, and falsely described his interactions decades ago with late Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir.

  • queermunist she/her
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    It’s not like he was flying in cheap economy seats. Grandpa got plenty of nap time on his flight.

    • Ghostalmedia
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      101 year ago

      Dude is the 2 decade reigning flub champ. Swapping day and week isn’t even a C tier flub.

      Also, a nice seat still doesn’t make up for the fact that the time zone is basically entirely inverted. Dude just got off several days working the night shift.

    • @FinnFooted
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      61 year ago

      This doesn’t fix jet lag which is fucking brutal.

      • queermunist she/her
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        I’ve worked flexible work shifts, which is basically the same thing. One day work starts at 3:30pm and goes till 12am, another it starts at 12am and goes till 7am, it’s bullshit.

        If you get enough sleep it’s fine. Old people struggle a lot with disrupted sleep schedules, though, so there’s no way I could do that shit if I was eighty god damn years old. Why do y’all pretend he isn’t ancient?