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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat Donald Trump's unending stream of lies has done to our White House, our country and us.
In all, to date, there have been many thousands of falsehoods, and a significant percentage of them are lies: That is, Trump knows what he saying is not true, but says it anyway. It is not worth trying to list even a small subset of them other journalists are doing yeomans work in that area but it is nevertheless truly astonishing when you stop and think about it: Whenever the president of the United States opens his mouth, odds are that the words that tumble forth are false. Whenever the erstwhile leader of the free world puts his thumbs to his iPhone keypad, it is more likely than not that the assertions that pop up on social media moments later are an exaggeration. Or a random fabrication. Or a dramatic embellishment. Or a deliberate lie.
And perhaps the most troubling part of all this? That three years into the Donald Trump presidency, these observations lack the capacity to shock or even to raise an eyebrow. It is no longer newsworthy that the person leading the worlds most powerful nation, commanding the most destructive arsenal in human history, is untrustworthy to his core. It is simply where we are today.
If Ronald Reagan is the president who won the Cold War, and Obama will be remembered as the first Black president, Trumps place in the history books is certain to be considerably less flattering: the impeached president who made up the most stuff, pretty much all day, pretty much every day.
Once upon a time, not terribly long ago, Donald J. Trumps difficult relationship with the truth was of little actual consequence to anyone
.https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-untruth-lies-false_n_5e0bac46e4b0843d360c94ea
The question Americans need to ask themselves is do we have the right to accurate information from our White House, or not? Would we permit an elected small town mayor to lie this frequently about town business? How about a school board chair?
excellent long article about Trump and his lying mouth
Eliot Rosewater
(31,113 posts)ONE lie, let alone 17,000
So we will have accountable WH if it is a Democrat, always.
SWBTATTReg
(22,156 posts)anymore, even if what he says is true, anymore. He's done more damage to his brand himself then anyone else could. It's like the boy crying wolf too many times...DJT's wolf is coming to devour him in Nov. 2020.