Trump has made more than 1,300 false claims since he took office

His latest claims have been about his tax reform plan, the NFL, and North Korea

Donald Trump has made more than 1,300 false claims in less than 9 months in office according to fact-checkers. (ALEX EDELMAN/AFP/Getty Images)

Donald Trump has made 1,318 false claims during his time in office, according to one tracker.

According to the Washington Post’s Fact Checker, the President these claims were made over 263 days and includes “every false or misleading claim by Trump, as well as his flip-flops.”

The analysis is part of a year-long project by the newspaper to keep the administration accountable.

“With almost exactly 100 days left to go in our year-long project, Trump is inching ever closer to breaking 2,000 claims,” the team wrote.

Of late, the President has taken to his favourite forum of Twitter to make false claims on the NFL, and taxes, and North Korea.

For instance, Mr Trump said NFL players taking a knee during the national anthem ahead of games had “nothing to do with race”.

However, the player who began the peaceful protest, Colin Kaepernick, did so to bring attention to the slew of police-involved shooting deaths of young black men and children around the country.

Mr Trump argued the players who were kneeling were simply disrespecting the flag, the country, and - using standard political scapegoat - the US military.

This could be chalked up to a matter of perception however he has made other false claims about the league as well.

On more than one occasion, he has tweeted that television ratings for the league and for sports network ESPN were “tanking” and “down massively” in light of protests by players and the social media reactions of one African-American anchor, Jamele Hill.

The Associated Press reported that NFL attendance was the highest it has been since a record year in 2007, though television ratings had slipped.

“And professional football games remain among the most-watched televised events,” the Washington Post reported.

Mr Trump also blamed the league for not enforcing a rule that required players to stand during the national anthem since they started to appear on the field in 2009, however no such rule exists.

The NFL allows teams to use “discretion” and only “encourages” players to stand.

His most frequent false claims in the past month have been about his administration’s tax reform plan.

Mr Trump said the US is the highest-taxed country in the world. That distinction actually goes to Denmark in terms of proportion to gross domestic product, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

He also claimed the US has the highest corporate tax rate in the world. This is “misleading,” according to Fact Checker.

There is a difference between the tax rate of 35 per cent corporate tax rate the US has on the books, which is the highest amoung developed countries, and the effective corporate tax rate - or what companies actually pay after legal deductions and tax breaks.

When the latter is factored in, the US has the fourth-highest effective corporate tax rate in the world, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

The UK, Argentina, and Japan outrank it.

The President also claimed his reform plan is the “the largest tax cut in our country’s history” however no details have been revealed as yet to verify that claim.

Mr Trump took his Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to task via Twitter recently as well, claiming the former Exxon CEO was "wasting his time" trying to negotiate with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

The president has said that previous administrations have left him "with a mess" regarding the nuclear weapons programme being developed by the isolated regime, adding that every president since Bill Clinton “has been outplayed by this gentleman."

In fact, there have been three leaders since the Clinton administration in the early 1990s: Mr Kim, his father Kim Jong-il, and his grandfather Kim Il-sung.

He later clarified in a 7 October interview with Mike Huckabee that he did indeed know there were three different leaders but they all had the "same attitude"

Mr Trump will reach a year in office on 20 January 2018.