At a Michigan campaign rally on Saturday, Trump repeated a claim that he had won a Man of the Year award in the state years ago.
Did you know that I was named a long time ago? I don't know, your chamber of commerce, who knows what it is? Trump said that he was the Man of the Year in Michigan.
I said they were stealing your car business and I was rebuked. They said that was not a nice thing to say. The truth is that I was correct. Man of the Year in Michigan was a long time ago. We have been doing this for a long time.
Since the first time he claimed to have won an award, multiple news organizations have searched for it, but no one has found it.
Detroit News, which keeps a list of Michiganians of the Year, confirmed that Trump had never won.
The Michigan Chamber of Commerce does not award a Man of the Year title.
The claim could be traced to a 2013 event where a framed version of the Gettysburg Address was gifted to Trump, but no Man of the Year award was presented there, either.