‘Trump v the Truth’ will run for several hours on Sept. 17 and is set to be punctuated by “brief text-based fact-checks.”

Channel 4 is welcoming Donald Trump to the U.K. with a special program: an unbroken catalogue of over 100 falsehoods, distortions and inaccuracies he’s come up with since taking office in January.

The U.S. President will come to London for a second state visit this month, and the British channel has vowed to put a spotlight on his “prolific oeuvre of untruths.”

On Sep. 17 from 10 a.m. local time, Channel 4 will broadcast Trump v the Truth, the longest uninterrupted reel of untruths running over several hours. The statements will be punctuated by “brief text-based fact-checks, offering viewers the truth behind the tweets, speeches and soundbites.”

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    6 hours ago

    I so hope this is available somewhere I can download it. 100 seems like a small number to use. How long would it be if it were everything?

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      Yes! But they’d have to pause the video to pop up the multi-level rebuttals:

      Trump: Mexican people are evil terrible lazy criminals

      Pop immigrants are usually the most law-abiding group in America

      Pop immigrants are usually the hardest workers, adaptable and versatile. They usually works jobs that go unfilled without them

      Pop Latin Americans have a rich culture and history, and happily celebrate with rich colour and intricate dance and song

      Pop people of Mexico enjoy less crime on average than Americans

      Etc

      Like, there’s only so much time!

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    10 hours ago

    I am assuming the Channel 4 website is geolocked to the United Kingdom… So I really hope that they stream this on YouTube as well.

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    Is untruth even a word? What happened to falsehood? Sounds way better … Untruth sounds made up

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      There is a difference between falsehood and untruths. If you give a partial answer it can be “not false” and also fail to be truth. Suppose he is asked about the economy and he says some sector is doing good but doesn’t mention the ones doing bad, is he lying? You get false information even though what he says is true.

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        Fox News is great at the lie-by-omission thing. In fact, they rarely tell a bald-faced lie.

        Remember the Snowden revelations? When that was going down, I was trapped in a house for a week where the people had Fox on 24/7. I mean that literally. They’d smoke weed and fall asleep in their recliners. Headline news, worldwide, and I did not hear a single word from Fox. Not one mention. Which I still haven’t figured out as they could have nailed Obama to the wall.

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      7 hours ago

      I’ve been partial to calling it lying or deceptively engaging in bad faith to prevent people from being able to make well informed choices taking away their agency and ability to accomplish personal and community goals unimpeded.

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    6 hours ago

    Since he’s physically and psychologically painful to behold anyway, every clip should just be fullscreen plastered with the plethora of cited sources debunking his every word.

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    They literally included Channel 4’s Tweet saying it starts at 10pm… and still somehow got the time wrong.

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    They’d have to rival Fox New’s airtime, so I am not sure that it would be the total longest.

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      No, they said it would be the longest… I’m not sure he has the stamina to beat his record

      Maybe they made a Trump supercut?