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For Trump, everything’s a “hoax.” It’s pure projection
Both impeachments, the Epstein scandal, COVID, climate change — it's all a "hoax." Is Trump telling us something?

By Kirk Swearingen
Contributing Writer
Published December 28, 2025 6:45AM (EST)


(Salon) How many times do you think Donald Trump has made use of the word “hoax”?

The investigation into his ties to Russian operatives during the 2016 campaign? A Democrat hoax. The coronavirus? A Democrat hoax. People having trouble affording groceries and housing? Affordability — the very concept of being able to afford the bare necessities in life — a Democrat hoax. The Epstein files? A Democrat hoax. His record two impeachments? Can you guess? Yes, the first, for his “perfect phone call” with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, was a hoax and the second, for inciting an insurrection, was yet another hoax.

Has anyone written a children’s book, “The President Who Cried Hoax”?

Because we know Trump is forever psychologically projecting and, thus, talking about himself without realizing it, we understand that he is forever admitting his guilt by using the word to undermine the legitimacy of investigations against him.

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Lifelong conman, conjurer of distractions, juggler of multiple grifts at a time, Trump is himself the hoax he so often speaks of. He was a hocus-pocus real-estate developer, using the public dole, that actual New York developers considered not serious or honest; a self-promoting “great businessman,” actually manufactured by a reality show producer and a ghostwriter; owner of a fraudulent university and a bogus foundation, both heavily fined and shut down by courts; a “playboy” who speaks creepily about his own daughter and has been accused by 28 women of various forms of sexual misconduct, from unwanted kissing and groping to rape; and an utterly unworthy candidate for public office — even after his first term. In every way one can imagine, as a man, husband, father, patriot, leader, Christian, tough guy, smart guy, Trump has proven himself time and again to simply be a hoax. ............................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2025/12/28/for-trump-everythings-a-hoax-its-pure-projection/