'Trump v the Truth' will run for several hours on Sept. 17 and is set to be punctuated by "brief text-based fact-checks."

Channel 4 is welcoming Donald Trump to the U.K. with a special program: an unbroken catalogue of over 100 falsehoods, distortions and inaccuracies he’s come up with since taking office in January.

The U.S. President will come to London for a second state visit this month, and the British channel has vowed to put a spotlight on his “prolific oeuvre of untruths.”

On Sep. 17 from 10 a.m. local time, Channel 4 will broadcast Trump v the Truth, the longest uninterrupted reel of untruths running over several hours. The statements will be punctuated by “brief text-based fact-checks, offering viewers the truth behind the tweets, speeches and soundbites.”

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[+] 93 points 1 year ago (4 children)
  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Channel 4 do put a lot of stuff on YouYube but you could likely use a VPN.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I think the point is a wider audience seeing it. Billy Joe Beergut isn't going to seek it out

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I so hope this is available somewhere I can download it. 100 seems like a small number to use. How long would it be if it were everything?

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Well, he told over 30,000 verifiable lies just during his first term, sooooooo......

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I feel like there should just be a broadcast channel starting from media on his first lies and you know, horrible stuff like how young is to young, to present and just looping every few months when it finally gets to the end.

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Really hope the average Briton is better educated than the average American.

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  • No they’re not. We have people hanging flags everywhere with racist undertones and I’ve now seen America flags in my town. Like America is a bastion of what we want to become ffs.

    I don’t want to say the average person is stupid but they’re easy to lie to and get on side apparently.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    They must've had to rotate through editors like the cleanup workers at Chernobyl.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I want a version edited like Pop-Up Video (or whatever it was called) from VH1

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Yes! But they'd have to pause the video to pop up the multi-level rebuttals:

    Trump: Mexican people are evil terrible lazy criminals

    Pop immigrants are usually the most law-abiding group in America

    Pop immigrants are usually the hardest workers, adaptable and versatile. They usually work jobs that go unfilled without them

    Pop Latin Americans have a rich culture and history, and happily celebrate with vibrant colour and intricate dance and song

    Pop people of Mexico enjoy less crime on average than Americans

    Etc

    Like, there's only so much time!

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    I think Fox “News” has them beat.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    Fascists lie. It's what they do.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Is untruth even a word? What happened to falsehood? Sounds way better ... Untruth sounds made up

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    There is a difference between falsehood and untruths. If you give a partial answer it can be "not false" and also fail to be truth. Suppose he is asked about the economy and he says some sector is doing good but doesn't mention the ones doing bad, is he lying? You get false information even though what he says is true.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Fox News is great at the lie-by-omission thing. In fact, they rarely tell a bald-faced lie.

    Remember the Snowden revelations? When that was going down, I was trapped in a house for a week where the people had Fox on 24/7. I mean that literally. They'd smoke weed and fall asleep in their recliners. Headline news, worldwide, and I did not hear a single word from Fox. Not one mention. Which I still haven't figured out as they could have nailed Obama to the wall.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    I've been partial to calling it lying or deceptively engaging in bad faith to prevent people from being able to make well informed choices taking away their agency and ability to accomplish personal and community goals unimpeded.

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  • [+] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Since he's physically and psychologically painful to behold anyway, every clip should just be fullscreen plastered with the plethora of cited sources debunking his every word.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    They literally included Channel 4's Tweet saying it starts at 10pm... and still somehow got the time wrong.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Sept 18. Trump to sue Channel 4

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Well done, lads!

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    They're giving him an interview then, are they?

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    I bet some lies in there too

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    [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    Just say "lies," people.

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 1 year ago*

    (Hopefully Obvious Disclaimer: No, I'm not saying that Channel 4 is spreading disinfo. Yes, this is about trump lying all the time.)

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Why not call it lies again? Why all this careful maneuvering around calling them out? Why always so gentle? They call for people's death ffs.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    It really depends what the individual clips are. They could be lies, mistruths, falsehoods, distortion. All are slightly different, usually to do with intent.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Who the fuck cares what exactly it would be called in a 100 % logical, purely neutral setting? These assholes need to be called out EVERY SINGLE TIME, right away, without fumbling around what it should be called!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    While I agree wholeheartedly, the show hasn't been broadcasted yet. You don't yet know what you're calling out.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    That is a direct quote from the channel’s chief content officer Ian Katz. So before it even started they already soften the blow. How likely is it that they now started doing that but did not do it for the collection of bullshit prior, when they created it? I doubt it.

    This is exactly the same as calling it "immigration crackdown", absolutely disgusting.

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