President Trump wrote an op-ed in Wednesday's USA Today that The Washington Post's fact-checker trashed as containing "a misleading statement or falsehood" in "almost every sentence." The Post was hardly alone in slapping down Trump's claims, and Jimmy Kimmel wasn't impressed with the op-ed either. "Are any of you staying in a Holiday Inn Express and maybe you saw it?" he joked on Wednesday's Kimmel Live, before launching into his own fact check.
"I have to say, this op-ed really makes me mad," he said, "because in it, Trump blasts what he calls the Democrats' Medicare-for-all policy while really, truly outrageously claiming that he kept a promise to protect coverage for those with pre-existing conditions." This is an issue of personal importance for Kimmel, and after reading the relevant bit of the op-ed, he corrected Trump: "No, you didn't keep that promise. That promise was forced on you because John McCain gave you the finger and so you weren't able to not keep that promise — that's not keeping a promise! ... This is like claiming you saved people from drowning after you put a hole in the side of the ship — it's just a lie."
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