Rep. Lloyd Doggett Fact Checks President Trump’s Many Lies During Joint Address with “FALSE” Sign

Contact: Alexis.Torres@mail.house.gov 

Washington, D.C.—Today, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin) and several colleagues held up “FALSE” signs in response to the many lies delivered by President Trump in his joint address to Congress. Regarding his decision and reaction to Trump’s speech, Rep. Doggett said:  

“While some of my equally outraged colleagues chose not to attend, I chose to confront Trump face-to-face and confront his lies one by one. Unlike a Republican colleague who yelled out ‘You lie!’ years ago during a Joint Session speech by President Obama, I chose to raise a sign saying ‘FALSE.’ Trump doesn’t like fact-checking since so many of his claims don’t match the facts. The People’s House must not be left unchecked to a wannabe tyrant spewing lies. 

“This speech coincides with Trump’s imposition of his new 25% grocery tax on fresh produce and everything else upon which we rely from Mexico and Canada. Despite his repeated promises, he has done nothing to lower prices, and now he’s spiking them. He promised to protect our healthcare and not undermine the Affordable Care Act, and to ‘love’ Medicaid, but these are just more broken promises. I’m concerned about the way he has permitted Elon Musk to callously disrupt the lives of so many and about Trump’s power grabs. But I think most Central Texans will particularly feel the impact when they grab something off the store shelf for which they’ll be paying more because Trump broke his promises.”