When I read the news online inevitably that news includes six or seven ‘tweets’ from random people I don’t know who are somehow included as valuable sources. We live in a world where social media defines truth and voracity. In that world Trump says whatever he wants and it hits our eyes long before anyone bothers to vet the language for accuracy.
Trump is a liar. This is not an attack on the man but merely a statement of fact. He practices in open hyperbole and appears to believe or at least promotes the belief that he is the best ever at everything and we live in the worst time for everything that comes across his face. Consider his arguments about North Korea. If Trump is to be believed, we were on the brink of war with North Korea before he took office. However, there is no evidence of such that he has presented. I would argue that Trump himself fanned the flames of Korean conflict by insulting and threatening the regime. Once the problem was ramped up to what he felt was the brink of war (and had us thinking maybe we are going back in there) he went to meet with their fearless leader and had a sit down. Trump made it seem like he talked us down from the brink of war but in reality we are in the same place we were before he took office.
We were sold a lie.
We were also sold a debt. Even as recently as this SOTU address he maintained the lie that China is paying us billions each month in tariffs. He says this again and again, but this is not true. The tariffs are paid by the American companies who deal with China and thus will eventually be paid by the American consumers.
This is the biggest lie and threat of Trump. In the end the people who support him the most are the ones threatened and hurt by him and don’t even see it. His assault on farmers has hurt farmers tremendously, but they don’t see it because the government is subsidizing their losses. It is welfare for a set of people who feel that welfare is one of the worst things you can do to your country. Trump makes America Worst Again, and the horror is that none of the people who matter are willing to acknowledge it.