Trump says he dislikes tweeting. America says it dislikes his tweets.
Of all of the scores of falsehoods Donald Trump has offered since he began running for president, few are as egregiously and obviously untrue as one he offered to Fox News Channel’s Ainsley Earhardt in an interview that aired Wednesday.
“Look,” Trump said, “I don’t like tweeting. I have other things I could be doing. But I get very dishonest media, very dishonest press. And it’s my only way that I can counteract.”
Of course, all evidence suggests that Trump loves tweeting. He loves it. Since May 4, 2009, he has tweeted an average of 10.8 times per day. Per day. On average. That’s not the behavior of someone who dislikes tweeting.
That’s the big falsehood. Then we get to the smaller falsehood: that he tweets only to counteract the media.
It’s certainly true that Trump would rather push out his own message to his 20 million followers than let his pronouncements be filtered by an outside party that might point out when he’s, say, saying untrue things. (By the way: Be sure to download our browser plug-in, which brings fact-checking to his Twitter feed.) It is not true, though,…