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.

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      Dude just zipped around Asia in a couple days then took a 12 hour flight home. Is it really that weird that he accidentally said the next day instead of the next week?

      I’m half his age, and travel like that makes me completely incoherent.

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          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.

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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?

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      Not just grandpa. How much of what we remember of 9/11 is accurate? How can we be sure? Is anyone fact checking our memories?

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          My good friend and I both very clearly remember watching the Challenge explosion happen live on TV in 6th grade science class… it happened when we were in 4th grade at different schools.

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        I was in graphics class, junior year. We were working on our projects in the lab; the teacher quietly went over and turned a tv on it took a good 2/3’s of the class for the shock to set in, and the. Everything seemed kinda pointless the rest of the day.