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The week's question
In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: sano ✶✹  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: For all the world to see
Date: 09/22/26 3:32 PM
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NYT listed Trumps lies, politely calling them 'exaggerations and misinformation'.

A snippet of the lies;
The president repeated a number of claims that The New York Times has previously fact-checked:

He falsely claimed to have ushered in $21 trillion in foreign investments. (This is almost double the White House’s own tally, which includes broad pledges and previously announced investments.)

He falsely claimed to have signed the largest tax cuts in American history. (The tax cuts signed into law last summer rank sixth.)

He claimed that there are “more Americans working today by far than ever before.” (This is a meaningless statistic, given population growth. The unemployment rate in August was currently a low 4.1 percent, which is slightly higher than in January 2025, when he took office.)

He misleadingly said that “we have more munitions than we could ever possibly even think of using, and we’re building them at levels that we have never done before.” (The Iran war has drained the United States’ arsenal of munitions.)

He overstated credit for settling eight wars. (It is an exaggeration to call some of the conflicts “wars,” and some countries dispute Mr. Trump’s role in others).

nytimes.com - UN general assembly trump speech news
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