“The rich will not be gaining at all with this plan.”

That’s what President Donald Trump assured America on Sept. 13, 2017, as the Republican tax bill was being drafted. His views were echoed on several occasions by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

But more than a year after the tax bill was signed into law, it is becoming abundantly clear that the main benefits of the tax act actually do fall squarely on the rich. (...)

“As I’ve said all along, the objective of the president is that rich people don’t get tax cuts,” Mnuchin said Oct. 1, 2017, on This Week with George Stephanopoulos. (...)

Trump made relatively few false claims last week in part because he did much less talking than usual. He spoke for just 42 minutes, according to data provided by the tracking website Factba.se, down from more than two hours in each of the preceding three weeks, during which he made 43, 52, and 78 false claims.

Two years after taking the oath of office, President Trump has made 8,158 false or misleading claims, according to The Fact Checker’s database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement uttered by the president.

That includes an astonishing 6,000-plus such claims in the president’s second year.

Put another way: The president averaged nearly 5.9 false or misleading claims a day in his first year in office. But he hit nearly 16.5 a day in his second year, almost triple the pace. (...)

With much of the government shut down, the President paid for the food himself. He initially told reporters that the spread included “300 hamburgers” but later told the players he had sent out for “about 1,000 hamburgers.”

Rumor has it that Trump wanted to serve churros for dessert, but couldn’t get funding for a wall to surround the churros to keep them confined to their part of the table.