SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, U.S. President:

“And you're going to see things that you've never seen in this country before."

 

SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, U.S. President:

“They were charging us tariffs at, at levels that nobody's ever seen before.”

 

SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, U.S. President:

“So, we’ve done numbers that no one else has ever seen before.”

 

DONALD TRUMP HAS A FAVORITE LINE — IT'S LIKE NOTHING ANYBODY HAS EVER SEEN BEFORE.

 

WHETHER HE'S TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING GOOD

 

SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, U.S. President:

“We have money coming in that we've never even thought about at numbers that nobody's ever seen before. “

 

OR BAD,

 

SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, U.S. President:

“When you burn the American flag, it incites riots at levels that we've never seen before.”

 

IT'S ALWAYS UNPRECEDENTED WHEN THE PRESIDENT IS TELLING THE STORY.

 

THE CLAIMS ARE HYPERBOLIC EXAMPLES OF TRUMP'S EXAGGERATED RHETORIC, AND THEY'RE OFTEN FILLED WITH FALSEHOODS OR DISTORTIONS.

 

HERE'S WHAT WE'VE HEARD FROM THE PRESIDENT IN JUST THE LAST WEEK OR SO.

 

SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, U.S. President:

"Foreign nations are now paying hundreds of billions of dollars straight into our treasury and numbers that nobody's ever seen before."

 

SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, U.S. President:

“They have crime that's at levels that nobody's ever seen before in Baltimore. They've done a terrible job.”

 

SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, U.S. President:

“You’re going to see things happen in the United States that nobody’s ever seen before.”

 

IT'S NOT A NEW HABIT, AND THE PHRASE WAS A FIXTURE OF HIS REMARKS AT LAST YEAR'S REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.

 

SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, U.S. President:

“Together we will lead America to new heights of greatness like the world has never seen before.”

 

WHILE IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO KNOW WHAT TRUMP WILL SAY NEXT, HE’LL PROBABLY CLAIM THAT SOMETHING IS…

 

SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, U.S. President:

“The likes of which we’ve never seen before.”