President Trump has made 2 436 false or misleading claims so far
Since taking office   President Trump  has made 2 436 false or misleading claims and flip-flops.  He  now averages 6 per day. (Meg Kelly/The Washington Post)
In the 406 days since  he  took the oath of office   President Trump  has made 2 436 false or misleading claims  according to The Fact Checkerâs database that analyzes  categorizes and tracks every suspect statement uttered by the president.
When we first started this project for the presidentâs first 100 days   he  averaged 4.9 claims a day. Slowly  the average number of claims has been creeping up.
Our interactive graphic  created with the help of Leslie Shapiro and Kaeti Hinck of the Post graphics department  displays a running list of every false or misleading statement made by  Trump . We also catalogued  the presidentâs  many flip-flops  since those earn Upside-Down Pinocchios if a politician shifts position on an issue without acknowledging  he  or she did so.
As we were updating the database in recent weeks  weâve found ourselves doing something unusual â double checking that we had not entered the same speech twice.  The presidentâs  sales pitch for  his  tax plan has been so consistent it made us do a double take. But consistency does not equal accuracy.
Regardless   the president âs spin seems to have enlightened new believers. Polling indicates a big swing in favor of the new law  with twice as many Americans approving of the law than at the end of 2017.
So as a reader service (and given  the president âs penchant for repetition)  hereâs a summary of  Trumpâs  most frequent false and misleading claims about the tax bill:
If we use a gross domestic product of $19.5 trillion in 2018  which assumes the kind of growth  Trump  expects  the tax cut would be nearly 0.9 percent of GDP. And under those circumstances   Trump âs cut falls behind seven previous tax cuts dating back to 1945. That means   Trumpâs tax cut  is only the eighth largest â certainly not the âbiggest.â  It âs smaller than two of  Obamaâs  tax cuts.
 President Trump  has made this claim 14 times since  he  signed the tax cuts into law.
 He  has repeated it over 64 times since  he  took office.
 Trump  is citing a White House Council of Economic Advisers report that has been widely criticized for the $4 000 estimate. Our friends at FactCheck.org offered a good illustration. Consider this simple arithmetic. There are almost 126 million households in the United States  so an average of $4 000 per household would mean a total income gain of $500 billion. Now that gain  according to the White House  is a direct result of the tax cut. The United States collected just under $300 billion in corporate taxes in fiscal 2017 before the tax bill was passed. If the new corporate tax rate had been in place  the government would have collected $127 billion less. Put another way  companies would have saved $127 billion  but even if they gave every dime back to workers this doesnât come near the $500 billion required to average $4 000 per household. (The White House says this is not a fair comparison because so many companies avoided the U.S. tax rates that current tax receipts are lower than they would be under the new law.)
 President Trump  has made this claim six times since  he  signed the tax cut into law.
 He  has repeated it at least 12 times since taking office.
As we have previously explained  the United States has never been one of the highest-taxed nations  developed or not â and that was before Trumpâs tax cut. The Pew Research Center  using 2014 data  found that the tax bill for Americans  under various scenarios  is below average for developed countries. In 2014  according to comparative tables of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)  revenue as a percentage of the gross domestic product â the broadest measure of the economy â was 26 percent for the United States. Out of 34 countries  that put the United States in the bottom third â and well below the OECD average of 34.4 percent. Given  the breadth of the Trump tax cut    it âs reasonable to expect the United States will rank even lower in the OECD rankings.
 President Trump  has made this claim at least once since  he  signed the tax cut into law.
 He  has repeated it at least 33 times since taking office.
Since taking office    [TGT] has made 2 436 false or misleading claims and flip-flops.   [TGT]   now averages 6 per day. (Meg Kelly/The Washington Post)
In the 406 days since  he  took the oath of  [TGT] has made 2 436 false or misleading claims  according to The Fact Checkerâs database that analyzes  categorizes and tracks every suspect statement uttered by the president.
When we first started this project for the presidentâs first 100 days   he  averaged 4.9 claims a day. Slowly  the average number of claims has been creeping up.
Our interactive graphic  created with the help of Leslie Shapiro and Kaeti Hinck of the Post graphics department  displays a running list of every false or misleading statement made by  [TGT]  . We also catalogued  the presidentâs  many flip-flops  since those earn Upside-Down Pinocchios if a politician shifts position on an issue without acknowledging  he  or she did so.
As we were updating the database in recent weeks  weâve found ourselves doing something unusual â double checking that we had not entered the same speech twice.  The presidentâs  sales pitch for  his  tax plan has been so consistent it made us do a double take. But consistency does not equal accuracy.
Regardless   the president âs spin seems to have enlightened new believers. Polling indicates a big swing in favor of the new law  with twice as many Americans approving of the law than at the end of 2017.
So as a reader service (and given  the president âs penchant for repetition)  hereâs a summary of  Trumpâs  most frequent false and misleading claims about the tax bill:
If we use a gross domestic product of $19.5 trillion in 2018  which assumes the kind of growth   [TGT] expects  the tax cut would be nearly 0.9 percent of GDP. And under those circumstances    [TGT]  âs cut falls behind seven previous tax cuts dating back to 1945. That means   Trumpâs tax cut  is only the eighth largest â certainly not the âbiggest.â  It âs smaller than two of  Obamaâs  tax cuts.
  [TGT] has made this claim 14 times since   [TGT]   signed the tax cuts into law.
  [TGT]   has repeated it over 64 times since   [TGT]   took office.
  [TGT] is citing a White House Council of Economic Advisers report that has been widely criticized for the $4 000 estimate. Our friends at FactCheck.org offered a good illustration. Consider this simple arithmetic. There are almost 126 million households in the United States  so an average of $4 000 per household would mean a total income gain of $500 billion. Now that gain  according to the White House  is a direct result of the tax cut. The United States collected just under $300 billion in corporate taxes in fiscal 2017 before the tax bill was passed. If the new corporate tax rate had been in place  the government would have collected $127 billion less. Put another way  companies would have saved $127 billion  but even if they gave every dime back to workers this doesnât come near the $500 billion required to average $4 000 per household. (The White House says this is not a fair comparison because so many companies avoided the U.S. tax rates that current tax receipts are lower than they would be under the new law.)
  [TGT] has made this claim six times since   [TGT]   signed the tax cut into law.
  [TGT]   has repeated it at least 12 times since taking office.
As we have previously explained  the United States has never been one of the highest-taxed nations  developed or not â and that was before Trumpâs tax cut. The Pew Research Center  using 2014 data  found that the tax bill for Americans  under various scenarios  is below average for developed countries. In 2014  according to comparative tables of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)  revenue as a percentage of the gross domestic product â the broadest measure of the economy â was 26 percent for the United States. Out of 34 countries  that put the United States in the bottom third â and well below the OECD average of 34.4 percent. Given  the breadth of the Trump tax cut    it âs reasonable to expect the United States will rank even lower in the OECD rankings.
  [TGT] has made this claim at least once since   [TGT]   signed the tax cut into law.
  [TGT]   has repeated it at least 33 times since taking office.