It’s not new news that the President exaggerates, distorts and outright lies on the regular. This is a feature, not a bug, of not only his presidency but his life. What is news is that, again according to the Fact Checker, the pace at which Trump makes false and misleading claims has rapidly quickened over the past six months or so. Here’s the key bit:
“That’s a pace of 22 fishy claims a day over the past 200 days, a steep climb from the average of nearly 5.9 false or misleading claims a day in Trump’s first year in office.”
Think about that. The President of the United States is AVERAGING 22 false/misleading claims a day for the last 200 days. And that is a rate four times as high as his pace of prevarication in 2017, his first year in office.
So, let’s go through what we know:
1) Trump bends — and breaks — the truth more than any other president. Ever.
2) The longer he is president, the more active his penchant for not telling the truth has become.
3) He is at his least truthful during campaign rallies aimed at his 2020 re-election race.
It seems pretty clear based on those three facts that Trump isn’t going to adhere more closely to objective facts and capital “T” truth between now and November 2020. In fact, it seems like a near-certainty that he will lean even further into his creation of a separate reality in which he and his supporters can happily live — facts be damned. And that move will convince his backers that the media is even more fake and even less dependable. Which will further isolate them from the rest of the country (and the world) and further deepening (and worsening) our political divides.
If we can’t agree on facts, how can we have a conversation about what the facts tell us about the past, present and future of our country? Answer: We can’t.
Source : Nbcnewyork