Garnel IronheartMarch 23, 2026 at 6:08 PM
I love how anyone, even a regime which lies constantly, is automatically given total credibility if it makes Trump look bad.
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‘President Trump is right’: The White House’s go-to line about Trump’s false claims
Donald Trump’s White House spokespeople have a favorite two-step reply when reporters ask them to comment on one of the president’s false claims.
First: They say, “President Trump is right.”
Second: They defend some related point that isn’t the one Trump actually made.
Trump’s false or misleading claims total 30,573 over 4 years Trump 1.0
By the end of his term, Trump had accumulated 30,573 untruths during his presidency — averaging about 21 erroneous claims a day.
Is Donald Trump a pathological liar? No. It's worse than that
Writing off Trump and Co. as mere “pathological liars” lets them off the hook. It ascribes their desire to deceive the public to some psychological malady, and not to their ad hoc political program, such as it is. A pathological liar is hard to counter, because they are barely even responsible for their compunction. Trump (and Vance, and Leavitt, and all the other liars in the White House) are responsible.
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Bottom line it is safer to assume that a problematic statement uttered by Trump is a lie. Especially if he will benefit from it
Seems like in the U.S. that politicians who engage in lying win, especially on a national scale when so many competing constituencies must be brought under a big tent.
ReplyDeletePointing out the lies has some use. But it would be even more useful, perhaps, to try and ferret out what agenda lies behind the lies.
As noted above in this post: the lies are intentional and in the service of some goal or goals. Just noting that the lies benefit the liar is not telling the whole story.
I love how none of these posts have anything to do with what I said. Sure, Trump lies. And much of the time, the people who accuse him are themselves lying. But that wasn't the point. The point is that all Iran does is lie but the even so, people rush to believe them if it hurts Trump.
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