Fact check: Trump tells two false stories about Oprah Winfrey

 Former President Donald Trump told two fictional stories about Oprah Winfrey on Saturday — one of them new, another he has been telling for at least 11 years.

The end of Winfrey’s television show

In a social media post late Saturday night, Trump wrote, “A long time ago, Oprah Winfrey asked me to do her last Network Television Show. The final week of her show was a big deal, and it was my honor, with my family, to do it.” He went on to criticize Harris and say that when he watched Winfrey’s event with her, “I couldn’t help but think this isn’t the real Oprah.”

Facts First: Trump’s claim is false. He did not appear on the last episode of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in 2011, nor even in the star-studded final week of the show. Rather, Trump appeared on the show about three months before it ended. 

Winfrey’s McDonald’s comment

Trump has repeatedly claimed that Harris is lying about having once worked at McDonald’s. (The Harris campaign says she worked at a restaurant in California during a summer when she was in college in the 1980s.)

At a campaign rally in North Carolina earlier on Saturday, Trump said: “And didn’t Oprah ask her about her time at McDonald’s? And she just sort of didn’t want to answer that one.”

Facts First: Trump’s claim that Harris dodged a question from Winfrey about working at McDonald’s is false. In reality, Winfrey never even asked Harris about working at McDonald’s. Rather, Winfrey passingly mentioned the McDonald’s job during her introduction of Harris — before the vice president walked onstage for their conversation.