It was a throwaway line, offered in a stream-of-consciousness riff about the state of the auto industry. Donald Trump , during a speech on Sunday, claimed that five years ago he was honored as Man of the Year in Michigan.

We have no clue what hes talking about.

That doesnt mean it didnt happen. But there is no apparent record of it happening, and the folks who might know arent talking.

The Huffington Post looked through various search engines and newspaper archives and found nothing. We checked with The Washington Posts David Fahrenthold, who has scrubbed Trumps bio down to the bone in his reporting. He said he knew of no such honor. We reached out to the office of Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R). Nothing. We asked the Trump campaign. They didnt respond.

The Detroit News does have a list of Michiganians of the Year. But Trump isnt on it.

We checked with the Michigan Chamber of Commerce. A person there said they dont have a man of the year award. We also looked through Trumps Twitter archive. He never tweeted about winning a Michigan Man of the Year award and it seems like the kind of thing hed mention.

Back in September 2008, the Home News Tribune in New Jersey did have a report involving Trumps golf course in Bedminster. The Tribunes story noted that the United Services Organization chose Trump as its 2002 Man of the Year.

But this doesnt sound even remotely like what Trump was talking about in Sterling Heights, Michigan, on Sunday. For starters, 2002 was way more than five years ago. Also, the USO award has nothing to do with the auto industry.

The conservative site World Net Daily called Trump its 2015 Man of the Year. And Time magazine named him a runner-up for its prize that year. Again, though, these have nothing to do with Michigan or the automotive industry. They definitely werent five years ago.

Trump did speak at the Oakland County GOP Lincoln Day dinner in 2013 and claimed to have drawn a record audience . This happened in Michigan. But it was not an award, and it happened three years ago, not five.

And in 2012, the Republican Party of Sarasota County did name Trump its statesman of the year . That was four years ago, not five (although in fairness, 2016 feels like its lasted at least two years, so we could understand the confusion). The problem is, Sarasota is in Florida, not Michigan.

In short, were stumped. Its possible that were missing something, that Trump really did receive some kind of award five years ago as Man of the Year in Michigan. But its also possible that Trump just made up the entire thing. He does, after all, have a history of making up awards hes won.

And if thats the case, its pretty wild. Because on Sunday, Trump described in detail the speech he supposedly gave after winning man of the year in Michigan.

During my speech all I talked about is what Mexico and these other countries are doing to us and especially what they are doing to Michigan, he said. And I was criticized.

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