President Trump’s term in office expired at noon Wednesday. And although he was never a broadly popular president, those who stuck by him have almost always cited a few things. Among them: that, whatever warts exist, he tells it like it is, and that he delivered on what he promised.The former is undermined by his well more than 30,000 falsehoods as president. The latter is undermined by his record.Back when Trump won the presidency, The Washington Post’s Jenna Johnson offered an indispensable look at just how much he had promised he would do as president — 282 items, to be exact. It was, to put it lightly, a lot. Perhaps in large part because of his lack of political expertise, and perhaps in larger part because of his showman persona and his willingness to just say, well, anything, his mouth wrote a lot of checks that his actions couldn’t cash (so to speak).Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/conspiracy-theories-exploring-the-unseen--5194379/support.

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