Lake Norman the world's largest man-made lake? That's what Trump says.

[left-of-center2012]

Source: Charlotte Observer

During a GOP fundraiser in a town that hosts one of his golf courses, Donald Trump claimed Lake Norman, NC, is “the largest man-made lake in the world” ... The president might have some reason to think well of Lake Norman. It’s the home of his Trump National Golf Club.

“I actually have investments in Charlotte,” he told an audience at Central Piedmont Community College’s Harris Conference Center on Friday after congratulating the city on winning the 2020 Republican National Convention.

Trump continued: “You know where my club is, right? Trump National. It’s a very big success on Lake Norman. Beautiful.
Largest man-made lake in the world by far, right?”

In fact, Lake Norman doesn’t even crack the list of the 10 largest U.S. reservoirs, says Tata & Howard, a Massachusetts-based engineering firm that designs dams. Nevada’s Lake Mead, the largest on that list, holds 25 times more water than Lake Norman. Globally, Lake Kariba along the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe is the world’s biggest based on water storage capacity, Water-Technology.net and WorldAtlas.com report. NASA’s Earth Observatory, however, calls Kariba only one of the largest artificial reservoirs.

Read more: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article217663050.html

[BootinUp]

1. Clown. Nt

[salin]

2. That he lies about the most unnecessary things (as in no benefit to the lie) - is demonstrative of

his ignorance, and comfort with lying all the time - just because he thinks that anything that spills from his mouth will be considered true. And if it is challenged... Tweet rampage!!! (threat - so don't challenge him.)

[RockRaven]

8. Yes, the contempt he shows for the audience by BS-ing so blatantly is one of the things

which puzzles me the most about Trump supporters... he's insulting them with every sentence and they don't care a bit.

[major debacle]

15. He had them at 'Mexican rapists'. nt

[maddiemom]

22. LOL! Welcome to D.U.

[scarytomcat]

25. I want to know what the audience thought when he said it was the largest

they live there... they know it is not the largest

[JohnnyRingo]

3. Unfit to even be president of Trump Tower.

He communicates like an eighth grader with the vocabulary of a Kazakhstan exchange student, and has the global knowledge of the banjo kid in the movie Deliverance.

Doesn't at least his immediate family feel embarrassment? Most would have committed him to an upstate rest home by now.

[dhill926]

4. can't somebody shut the orange....

motherfucker up? god almighty...

[hlthe2b]

5. It is sick that he lies when the truth would be easier.

[busterbrown]

6. Thanks for the post..

"He's a very successful businessman, look at what he's done.".

Thats the standard answer by the supporters of #45 ....

They don't care what he does.. WHY? Because his base thinks he's one of them..And that is all which needs to be stated

[ProfessorGAC]

27. I Have The HARD Data To Refute

PM me and I'll give you the detail
I've used it many times and every time, the response has been:
"Really?"
"That's true?"
"Oh, man!"
Etc.
And the #'s are clear

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

7. Lake Norman..Playground of NASCAR Drivers.

[Anon-C]

9. How ironic that the largest man-made lake in fact is in Africa.

[forgotmylogin]

16. Red Don doesn't count brown countries.

[cstanleytech]

10. Time for the Picard Maneuver

[llmart]

11. What an ass.

Telling people who live there that Lake Norman is the largest man made lake. Unless you're a stupid Trump supporter, you would know better.

I've probably been on Lake Norman much more than he has. Everything always has to be all about him.

[CatMor]

12. All trumps facts are made up in his bloated empty head...

how is it possible someone as stupid as he is ended up president. It had to be rigged, no other explanation.

[DesertRat]

13. He lies about EVERYTHING!

[elmac]

14. Salton Sea is actually man made

though made by accident.

[Botany]

17. Oh please make it stop! It is not even in the top 10 in the U.S.

Last edited Sun Sep 2, 2018, 07:03 AM - Edit history (1)

In fact, Lake Norman doesn’t even crack the list of the 10 largest U.S. reservoirs, says Tata & Howard, a Massachusetts-based engineering firm that designs dams. Nevada’s Lake Mead, the largest on that list, holds 25 times more water than Lake Norman.

Read more here: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article217663050.html#storylink=cpy

[truthisfreedom]

18. "I meant to say in the neighborhood..."

“Everybody knows I meant to say in the neighborhood.”

[Jedi Guy]

32. Heh.

"I meant to say it isn't the largest man-made lake. Why would I say it is?"

It continues to floor me that this blob of orange goo is the President of the United States of America. His time in office will forever be our national shame.

[0rganism]

19. he does it to show the rest of us how his followers will believe anything he says

he knows it pisses us off too, and we hate him for lying and dividing families and destroying the country, while his followers love him for pissing us off and all that gets him off like a whole roomful of urinating russian hookers.

[keithbvadu2]

29. Drives libruls crazy

Drives libruls crazy

[ProudLib72]

20. Now we know why he had hookers pee on him

He was trying to make that bed into the largest man made lake.

[neeksgeek]

21. I mean, you can barely see the other side! It's YUGE!

What?

This has to be the funniest thing I’ve heard a supposedly serious person say all year.

I mean, we are supposed to take the president (little “p”) seriously, right? Doesn’t seem like it to me.

Edited to add: I grew up in Charlotte and have read and traveled quite a bit. I’ve seen this lake with my own eyes countless times. It’s big, sure ...

This is just Trumpy always having to throw around superlatives. The man is nuts.

[Mc Mike]

23. Step 1: fail. Step 2: tell your pinhead flunky followers you succeeded, most bigly.

[Firestorm49]

24. No doubt, his uneducated loyal minions bought it hook, line and sinker.

[DemoTex]

26. Lake Norman is a mere 51 sq. miles.

Lake Oahe in SD/ND is the largest man-made lake in the US, at 685 sq. miles. Trump has a penchant for bragging about things being big, that aren't (election wins, crowd sizes, lakes, and, well, you know .. or, at least Stormy does).

[keithbvadu2]

30. Ask subject matter expert Little Marco

Ask subject matter expert Little Marco

[paleotn]

28. Liar

even when you don't have to lie.

[Snellius]

31. Trump National Golf Club is the biggest in the world with 3,402 holes.

MAGA = Make the Asshole Go Away