Whoppers of 2024

Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Summary President-elect Donald Trump is headed back to the White House in January. But in all the years since he was last president, not once has he been absent from our annual roundup of the worst whoppers. He’s very present on our 2024 list as well. Several of Trump’s biggest falsehoods over the last 12 months were about immigration, including his bizarre claim that Haitian immigrants were “eating the pets” of people in an Ohio community. In addition, he incorrectly blamed “migrant crime,” as he coined it, for the not-at-all “Worst Crime Wave in History!” He also took historical revisionism to new levels when he claimed that “all legal scholars” had long wanted the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling overturned, and he continued to greatly minimize the impact of climate change by repeating his old — and absurd — prediction that oceans will rise just “one-eighth of an inch over the next 400 years.” But Trump wasn’t alone in misinforming the public. His political foes did so as well. Our jaws dropped when President Joe Biden claimed that the annual rate of inflation, which spiked during his administration, already...