Donald Trump said again Saturday he was once named Michigan’s ‘Man of the Year.’ The award does not exist

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Former President Donald Trump reportedly claimed during a campaign rally Saturday in Michigan that he has won the “Man of the Year” award in Michigan.

It is something Trump has claimed before.

And he even has a story to go with it.

“I got up and I said,‘ They’re stealing your car business, ’” Trump said. “And, I was really rebuked. That said that wasn’t a very nice thing to say. But, it’s the truth that I was right. That was a long time ago, Man of the Year in Michigan. We’ve been doing this stuff a long time actually. ”

Here’s the thing, though: nobody can find an organization that has such an award or that has ever honored Trump as the state’s “Man of the Year.”

Per Business Insider, “multiple news organizations have tried to verify the claim since (Trump) started saying it in 2016.” None have succeeded.

Business Insider said The Detroit News does keep a “Michiganians of the Year,” list, but it says that Trump has never been a winner there. The Michigan Chamber of Commerce told Snopes it does not give out such an award, too.

It’s an odd claim, especially, because it has repeatedly been debunked and yet the former President continues to roll it out. The Detroit News did its best to get to the bottom of why he would do that in 2019, and while it said “no one in Michigan seems to know what he is talking about,” it did say Trump was given a framed copy of the Gettysburg Address while attending a 2013 Lincoln Day dinner in the state. And, it speculated that, perhaps somehow Trump may have confused that with the “Man of the Year” award which does not exist.

Trump spoke Saturday at the rally at the Michigan Stars Sports Center in Washington Township, Michigan where he is backing Matthew DePerno for attorney general and Kristina Karamo for secretary of state.

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