—Donald Trump, speaking to New York Times reporters about ICE agent Jonathan E. Ross firing point blank into the head of the 37 year-old American citizen Renee Nicole Good, killing her. Trump then showed the reporters a video that revealed Good did not run over Ross, nor appeared to be trying to.
CNN’s Daniel Dale still bird-dogs Trump’s lies as well as any human could, but there are only so many hours in a day. Ditto for the Poynter Institute’s PolitiFact, the University of Pennsylvania’s FactCheck.org, and parallel efforts by the Associated Press and Reuters. Glenn Kessler fact-checks Trump’s lies in his Substack newsletter, but after he retired last summer as The Washington Post’s Fact Checker columnist the Post was too cowardly to replace him.
Clearly, we need a new approach. I propose that instead of chasing Trump’s lies, the press should experiment with treating as major news those very rare instances when a statement coming out of Trump’s mouth actually turns out to be true. What we call “fact-checks” today are mostly lie-checks made newsworthy by a consensus that truthfulness is society’s expected norm. Instead, let’s try “truth checks” made newsworthy by society’s growing recognition that, with Trump, mendacity is the expected norm.
But fact-checks don’t seem to be getting through to the broader public. If they were, Trump’s approval rating (which, deservedly, has been falling since inauguration day) would now be well below the current 43 percent. Maybe Trump wouldn’t be president at all.
The larger point is that an overwhelming majority of Americans—70 percent—are well aware that Trump is a habitual liar. Even if you support the guy there’s a decent chance you know this. Evidence is growing that the response is to tune Trump out—and tune out the news along with him. A December Pew Research Center poll found that since Trump first appeared on the political scene in 2016, the proportion of Americans who follow the news closely has fallen from 51 percent to 36 percent.
How would a truth-check work? I propose it be preceded regularly by the following boilerplate:
Let’s try this with Trump’s most recent posts on Truth Social.
Item: On Friday, Trump announced he was meeting with oil companies at the White House to discuss Venezuela. That actually happened. We can’t vouch for anything Trump told oil executives at the meeting.
Nothing else Trump said on Truth Social between Thursday evening and Friday afternoon was notably truthful. For example, Trump’s claim that the United States called off a planned “second Wave of Attacks” was almost certainly Trump’s usual nonsense. It’s very doubtful any such wave was under serious consideration. Our truth-check beta will therefore ignore it.
I haven’t worked all the kinks out of this model. Rome wasn’t built in a day! But I do think that when a president recites falsehoods to the unprecedented extent Trump does, the press must reconsider how to communicate what is actually happening as opposed to what is a figment of the president’s fevered imagination. Otherwise the news becomes more a mirror of Trump’s delusions than of the world we live in.
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