Wednesday 5 July 2017

All The Presidents Lies



There is simply no precedent for an American President spending so much time telling untruths. Every president has shaded the truth or told occasional whoppers. No other president has behaved as Trump is behaving. He is trying to create an atmosphere in which reality is irrelevant……yet he complains of ‘fake news’. The guy is clearly persistently drunk!
 
The New York Times has catalogued all of these lies and it is a truly fascinating read……Trump told public lies every day of his first 40 Days. The streak didn’t end until 1 March 2017. Since then, he has said something untrue on at least 74 of 113 days. Nearly 60% of Americans say the President is not honest……up from about 53% when he took office.
 
The full article can be read at the following link. However, my particular favourites are below:
 
21/01/2017: “A reporter for Time magazine — and I have been on their cover 14 or 15 times. I think we have the all-time record in the history of Time magazine.” (Trump was on the cover 11 times and Nixon appeared 55 times.)
 
25/01/2017: “So, look, when President Obama was there two weeks ago making a speech, very nice speech. Two people were shot and killed during his speech. You can't have that.” (There were no gun homicide victims in Chicago that day.)
 
16/02/2017: “Walmart announced it will create 10,000 jobs in the United States this year because of our various plans and initiatives.” (The jobs are a result of Walmart's investment plans announced in October 2016!)
 
07/03/2017: “122 vicious prisoners, released by the Obama Administration from Gitmo, have returned to the battlefield. Just another terrible decision!” (113 of them were released by President George W. Bush.)
 
08/05/2017: “You know we’ve gotten billions of dollars more in NATO than we were getting. All because of me.” (The deal was struck in 2014!)
 
21/06/2017: “Right now, we are one of the highest-taxed nations in the world.” (They are not even close to being the highest!)
 
 
And in case you need reminding, this is the most powerful man in the world!
 
Remarkable……truly remarkable.


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