![]() ![]() ![]() Not great, but fixable fast with a simple White House correction. The federal weather office in Birmingham then tweeted that, actually, Alabama would be unaffected by the storm. Trump tweeted in 2019 that Alabama was one of the states at greater risk from Hurricane Dorian than had been initially forecast. Trump references a map held by acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan while talking to reporters about Hurricane Dorian in the Oval Office at the White House Septemin Washington, DC. The most dangerous lie: The coronavirus was under control And he would often do this brazen lying for no apparent strategic reason. The President would say things that we could see with our own eyes were not true. Like his lies that same week about his inauguration crowd, it hinted at what would come next. ![]() This was the first lie of Trump’s presidency. Then, at a celebratory ball later that day, Trump told the crowd that the rain “just never came” until he finished talking and went inside, at which point “it poured.” ![]() It rained during Trump’s inaugural address. Trump began his presidency by lying about the weather. The most telling lie: It didn’t rain on his inauguration Since then, he has spent the final months of what has been a wildly dishonest presidency on a relentless and dangerous lying spree about the election he lost.Īs the country grapples with the deadly consequences of this deception, I’ve selected the 15 Trump lies that stand out to me from his four years in power – for their importance, for their egregiousness, for their absurdity, or for what they say about the man. I fact checked every word uttered by this President from his inauguration day in January 2017 until September 2020 – when the daily number of lies got so unmanageably high that I had to start taking a pass on some of his remarks to preserve my health. There’s just so much ugly garbage to sift through before you can make a decision.īut I’m qualified for the dirty job. He claimed he had been distracted by his plans to box Manny Pacquiao this year, and he vowed to devote his full attention to MMA in training camp.Trying to pick the most notable lies from Donald Trump’s presidency is like trying to pick the most notable pieces of junk from the town dump. Instead of taking an easier fight or another boxing match, McGregor wanted another shot at Poirier after getting stopped by strikes for the first time in his MMA career. Poirier's clear superiority in the fighters' second bout made a third showdown seem questionable just six months later, but McGregor demanded the chance to fix his mistakes and Poirier accepted the massive paycheck that comes from sharing a cage with McGregor. Poirier stopped McGregor in the second round when they met in Abu Dhabi last January, avenging his first-round knockout loss to McGregor in 2014. McGregor was furious about the circumstances of his loss before he was carried from the cage. Medics were immediately called into the Octagon and it was clear that McGregor could not continue, and the referee Herb Dean declared a stop to the bout on the instructions of the doctor. McGregor reacts after his TKO loss due to injury against Dustin Poirier during the UFC 264 event at T-Mobile Arena Poirier was largely in control of the opening round, parrying McGregor's kicks and landing several strikes before getting control over McGregor on the ground.Īfter a long stretch of punches and elbows on the prone McGregor, Poirier knocked him down one last time - and McGregor's ankle bent gruesomely as he fell. 'He fractured it on one of the kicks at the beginning of the fight, and then he broke it.' 'I felt something, for sure,' Poirier said. Poirier said he thought McGregor's leg broke when he checked one of McGregor's kicks earlier in the fight. The biggest star in mixed martial arts never got up after falling to the canvas following a final-minute blow by Poirier (28-6), who will get the UFC's next lightweight title shot. The fight was stopped after the first-round bell when McGregor (22-6) was unable to continue. On Saturday night McGregor was seeking revenge in the fight after being soundly beaten by Poirier less than six months ago.īut it was not to be had, after McGregor badly injured his left ankle in the closing seconds of the first round. ![]()
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