https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-alternative-reality-truth_us_5b7f0ae7e4b0348585fec9dc
Trump routinely utters so many untrue statements about so many things, will anyone believe him when his presidency is on the line?
In the Donald Trump Universe, North Korea is no longer a nuclear threat. Opioid overdose deaths are on the decline. The self-described Islamic State has been “obliterated.” And a new wall along the Mexican border is well underway.
In the actual universe, none of these things is true.
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“They call him a reality TV star, but he’s untethered from reality. Lying is a second nature. That’s who he is,” said Douglas Brinkley, a presidential historian at Rice University. Brinkley said Trump’s untruths seem to be coming much more rapidly in recent months ― so fast that fact-checkers are having trouble keeping up.
“You can’t give a Pinocchio to someone who’s just a walking nose,” he added.
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But GOP consultant John Weaver, who ran Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s presidential campaign in 2016, laughed aloud at the idea that large numbers of people would believe Trump.
“Other than blood relatives and people he pays?” he asked.
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Weaver said Trump and others in the White House have put themselves in a bind by needlessly lying thousands of times since taking office, starting with the size of his inauguration crowd ― leaving themselves with little or no credibility.
“For the last year and a half, they squandered it like they were in some bazaar. They spent it and spent it and spent it like it was some endless ATM machine,” he said. “And now they’re going to go to their ATM machine when they need it and it’s going to take their card and shred it.”
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“You are not counting the steel plants run by the unicorns,” joked one former Trump campaign official, who also spoke on condition of anonymity. “I don’t know. I don’t understand the strategy.”
Trump routinely utters so many untrue statements about so many things, will anyone believe him when his presidency is on the line?
In the Donald Trump Universe, North Korea is no longer a nuclear threat. Opioid overdose deaths are on the decline. The self-described Islamic State has been “obliterated.” And a new wall along the Mexican border is well underway.
In the actual universe, none of these things is true.
…………..
“They call him a reality TV star, but he’s untethered from reality. Lying is a second nature. That’s who he is,” said Douglas Brinkley, a presidential historian at Rice University. Brinkley said Trump’s untruths seem to be coming much more rapidly in recent months ― so fast that fact-checkers are having trouble keeping up.
“You can’t give a Pinocchio to someone who’s just a walking nose,” he added.
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But GOP consultant John Weaver, who ran Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s presidential campaign in 2016, laughed aloud at the idea that large numbers of people would believe Trump.
“Other than blood relatives and people he pays?” he asked.
……………….
Weaver said Trump and others in the White House have put themselves in a bind by needlessly lying thousands of times since taking office, starting with the size of his inauguration crowd ― leaving themselves with little or no credibility.
“For the last year and a half, they squandered it like they were in some bazaar. They spent it and spent it and spent it like it was some endless ATM machine,” he said. “And now they’re going to go to their ATM machine when they need it and it’s going to take their card and shred it.”
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“You are not counting the steel plants run by the unicorns,” joked one former Trump campaign official, who also spoke on condition of anonymity. “I don’t know. I don’t understand the strategy.”
