'Imaginary tales': Trump caught lying about Oprah Winfrey to 'exaggerate his importance'
Donald Trump has been lying about Oprah Winfrey to "exaggerate his importance" to her, a report says.
Trump took a shot at Oprah on his Truth Social platform late Saturday night, saying she is not the woman he once knew after watching her sit-down interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.
On Truth Social, he wrote, "A long time ago, Oprah Winfrey asked me to do her last Network Television Show. The final week of her show was a big deal, and it was my honor, with my family, to do it. When I watched her interview yesterday with a woman who is destroying, through her complete and total incompetence, America, I couldn’t help but think this isn’t the real Oprah, this isn’t a person that wants millions of people, from prisons and mental institutions, and terrorists, drug dealers, and human traffickers, from all over the World, pouring into our Country."
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Trump also added, "Kamala looked really foolish, couldn’t answer the simplest of questions on Inflation, the Cost of Goods, or our very porous and dangerous Border - No leader there, and Oprah just wanted to crawl under a table! Comrade Kamala Harris is mentally unfit to be President. She knows it, and so does everyone else!"
Trump further claimed Harris failed to answer a question about her prior work at McDonald's.
But there were two lies in that short statement, according to a CNN fact checker.
"Former President Donald Trump told two fictional stories about Oprah Winfrey on Saturday – one of them new, another he has been telling for at least 11 years," CNN reported. "Trump’s claims about Winfrey are both trivial. But they are the latest on a long list of recent examples of the Republican presidential nominee delivering vivid but imaginary tales as he again seeks the nation’s highest office."
Specifically, according to the report, Trump lied about appearing on the final week of Oprah's show.
"Trump’s claim is false. He did not appear on the last episode of 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' in 2011, nor even in the star-studded final week of the show. Rather, Trump appeared on the show about three-and-a-half months before it ended," the article states.
CNN states that this lie was told because Trump was "trying to exaggerate his past importance to Winfrey."
Trump also lied about what happened when Oprah interviewed Harris, according to CNN.
"Trump’s claim that Harris dodged a question from Winfrey about working at McDonald’s is false," it states. "In reality, Winfrey never even asked Harris about working at McDonald’s. Rather, Winfrey passingly mentioned the McDonald’s job during her introduction of Harris – before the vice president walked onstage for their conversation."