Everyone lies about something. I'm not really 5'6" unless I'm wearing Timbs. But Trump has literally told thousands of lies and made misleading statements while in office per a stunning Washington Post report.

Lately, Trump has been getting a lot of bad press for another part of Woodward's book, where the president admits that he knew early on that coronavirus was much deadlier and spread much quicker than he led the public to believe. Since Woodward's tapes of his interviews with Trump have been made public, the president has been denying that he lied to the American people, despite the clear evidence that he did.

During the town hall, however, Trump compared his coronavirus statements with an inaccurate anecdote about Winston Churchill. Trump alleged the British military leader said everything would be alright while watching the Nazis drop bombs on London during the “blitzkrieg” of the 1940s. Trump's message was that Churchill was not "being necessarily honest" but "being a great leader." Trump's Churchill story both tried to justify lying and was itself a misrepresentation of what Churchill actually did.

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