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\n For three consecutive presidential campaigns, President Donald Trump regularly told the same lie when he spoke in the swing state of Michigan. Before he even entered politics, he claimed, he was named \u201cMan of the Year\u201d in the state.\n <\/p>\n

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\n The problem: CNN and other media outlets repeatedly noted that this award did not exist. But Trump revived the tale once more near the end of a falsehood-filled economic speech in Michigan on Monday \u2014 and added an additional lie claiming that an initially skeptical media had eventually discovered the award story was correct.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI was here 25 years ago, I got Man of the Year. They \u2014 oh, by the way, the press questioned that, and then they found out it was true, actually,\u201d Trump said with a chuckle. \u201cAnd I made a speech, and all I talked about was why are you letting them steal your auto industry?\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Nope. This is yet another example of the fake history that has littered various Trump addresses this month.\n <\/p>\n

\nApproaching 10 full years after Trump debuted the \u201cMan of the Year\u201d lie, nobody has ever been able to find any evidence for it. The state of Michigan does not give out a \u201cMan of the Year\u201d award, Trump has never lived in the state, and he and his team have never specified who or what entity supposedly gave him this award and when.\n <\/p>\n

\n In 2023, after\u202fnearly seven years\u202fof debunkings of Trump\u2019s \u201cMan of the Year\u201d tales, a Republican group in Michigan created\u202fa\u202f\u201cMan of the Decade\u201d award and gave it to him.\n <\/p>\n

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\n But Trump made clear Monday that this is not what he was referring to, since he said he was talking about a \u201cMan of the Year\u201d honor he received decades ago. (Side note: in many previous tellings of the \u201cMan of the Year\u201d story, like one during his 2024 campaign, he has placed the supposed honor in the 2010s rather than the 2000s as he suggested Monday.)\n <\/p>\n

\n Dave Trott, a former Republican congressman in Michigan who became a sharp critic of Trump, has offered the most plausible theory about the possible basis for Trump\u2019s made-up story. In 2019, Trott contacted CNN to note that Trump had suggested at an event two years prior that he had received the \u201cMan of the Year\u201d award at a 2013 Republican dinner in Michigan to which Trott had invited Trump to make a speech.\n <\/p>\n

\n At that 2013 dinner, Trott\u202fgave\u202fTrump gifts that included a framed copy of the Gettysburg Address. But Trott emphatically noted that nobody gave Trump any \u201cMan of the Year\u201d award.\n <\/p>\n

\n At least once, Trump has acknowledged that the idea of him receiving such an honor in Michigan before his time as a politician was bewildering.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cIn fact, five or six years before I even thought about running,\u202ffor whatever reason they named me Man of the Year in Michigan. I said, \u2018How come?\u2019 I didn\u2019t even understand it myself,\u201d he said at a 2019 rally in New Hampshire \u2014 then repeated, \u201cBut I was named Man of the Year.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

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