Here are Donald Trump's top 12 lies of 2019 as determined by CNN's fact checker

Critics of Donald Trump have long-pointed to the president's contempt for telling the truth as a disqualifying personality flaw.

Would citizens trust him in an emergency? Would citizens even trust his denial of golfing when the American embassy in Baghdad was attacked?

Since he's been in office, Trump has made over 15,000 false or misleading claims, according to The Washington Post.

CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale on Tuesday released his choices for the top lies told by Trump in each month of 2019.

Here are his selections: