When you need to desperately save face:

Add it to his 15,856 'lies'

I see your point. It’s incredibly pedantic and totally divorced from the wider point I’m making, but I see it.

I bet that's 3/4's of those lies.

But if Trump is pretending to make a "prediction" he himself doesn't believe a word of, but is putting it out there for political purposes, he IS lying.