Here are 11 false claims Trump made to the troops in Japan. The man also keeps claiming grocery prices are down when every unbiased source says they’re way, way up.
I think he just reflexively always claims whatever puts him in the best light and doesn’t care about the truth, Then again, but I do remember articles that said some (not all) of Richard Nixon’s many lies resulted from him creating an atmosphere in the White House where underlings felt the only way to please him was to tell him what he wanted to hear. Is someone telling Trump that he has the highest poll numbers he’s ever had? That would not be an excuse for him claiming that when it’s not true. In fact, it might even be worse than if he knew the truth and chose to lie about it.
Kristi Noem — who sounds like one of those people who’d make up Trump’s lies to please him — claims that the big roundup of folks to be deported, sans due process, has not seized any American citizens. Those who track such matters say that ain’t so.
Fred Kaplan discusses how seriously we should take Trump’s orders for the U.S. to resume the testing of nuclear weapons. Quick summary: It all depends on what he meant by that, which is often the case when Trump says something he means to sound important.
It will be interesting to see Trump’s popularity ratings with his base over the next week or two. There have to be a lot of his folks who are depending on SNAP payments and food banks and/or The Affordable Care Act for food and/or medical treatment who aren’t happy with Trump spending money on parties, his ghastly ballroom, playing golf, sending tax dollars to Argentina, etc. while they worry. If he doesn’t lose them over this, what’s it going to take?
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