Trump is a liar.
Yes, I know this seems like old hat by now, but here is the problem: We have accepted him as a liar but continue to offer some bare respectability to at least some of the words falling out of his mouth. In other words, even if we know he is lying most of the time we expect at least something coming from him to be true. Hardly anything ever is to which I argue we should assume that every single thing he says is a lie and fact check those things he says that we find personally of interest and portent to ourselves.
I’m asking you all to do a lot of work, and I recognize that nobody has time for that. However, consider the gravity of his lies. Most recently he made a speech from the oval office where he argued that women were being smuggled across the border in ‘super cars’ that the border patrol couldn’t keep up with and prayer rugs were being found in the desert. If it sounds like a movie then you’re right. It’s the latest addition of Sicario. I’m not saying he saw the movie, but I am saying someone did and decided that fiction ought to transmute to real life. Or real lies.
The prayer rugs part doesn’t even make sense. Muslims who pray with the rugs are going to need to take them along in order to continue praying. So, just no. We have become so numbed to the lies that we fail to see the slow dismantling of our confidence and belief in a system of government. It feels like everything I was told about the Nixon White House but writ large in 4K.
Some Thoughts:
- I’m going to vote for certain and certainly against Trump.