THE LIAR-in-CHIEF
The news today has more headlines about Trump’s corruption and his lies than about the Trump-Israel-Iran War that is getting hotter everyday. One of his latest lies is an often repeated lie about that war, which is partly what incited this article because he just keeps saying it, and it so clearly a lie.
After writing the article below, which doesn’t even cover most of the lies and corruption exposed in today’s article, I listened to the president’s speech, and almost every single opening statement was a total lie—several of them, lies that I had just written about in the article that follows. Most of them, lies that have been proven to be lies many times over.
Maybe I’ll go into specifically fact-checking each and every one of those opening statements in my weekend Deeper Dive. It was a broad swath of lies. For now, I’ll stay with the intentionally brief list I put together prior to the speech exactly as I wrote it with no edits other than my proofreading corrections.
The Liar-in-Chief
Trump keeps repeating the same tired and utterly failed lie that Iran badly wants to make a deal. He's said it again a few times since the latest schmeasefire fell all apart. Here, in the news today, is how badly Iran wants to make a deal: Iran Parliament Votes to HALT ALL Negotiations with USA. So much for that baloney, and, yet, 39% of America still believes in Trump. Why would you keep believing in someone who lies to you endlessly? Trump has now repeated this lie through FORTY failed ceasefires! What does it take for that 39% to wake up and realize that TRUMP LIES ALL THE TIME!
Take a quick glance at the record on some other lies:
Tariffs will bring jobs back to America. (Jobs, when you dig beneath the surface, are looking terrible as frequently reported here. Even the surface isn’t looking good. It’s just mediocre.)
Tarriffs are being paid by foreign corporations. (Several reports have come out saying that only about 6% of the total amount collected in tariffs was offset by price adjustments from the foreign corporations. American importers paid the entire remaining 94%!)
Tariffs do not cause inflation. (The tariff inflation took two months longer than the lagged schedule I laid out for when you’d actually start to see it pricing through to products on the shelves, but it started coming in clearly in January and February before the war began, and big businesses told everyone they would start passing along the tariffs at the start of this year. Then the Supreme Court cancelled most of the tariffs, and Trump replaced some of them with smaller tariffs under a different law, so the inflation from tariffs will not be as bad as it was certainly going to be, had the Supreme Court not ruled his tariffs unconstitutional, but some tariff inflation is still happening as reported in Deeper Dives here.)
Trump will be the peace president and keep us out of needless wars. (He got us into more wars in his first year of his second term than any other president has in an entire term, and the latest war started off as being 50% about regime change. When regime change failed, he actually lied and said he never said he was interested in regime change even though it is not hard to prove he did! He doesn’t even care that he lies about things he said that can easily be proven with videos.)
The price of oil will go back down as low or lower than before the war. (He didn’t tell you it would go right back up again, but I did, and it did! It never went back down to as low as it was right before the war, though it got close for several days.)
We won the war in Iran. (Still fighting it. Still looks like a quagmire that Trump cannot find his way out of, just like I said from the start it would be.)
The US controls the Strait. (Really? Then why is no oil shipping through?)
We completely destroyed Iran’s navy and Air Force. (Then how do they keep hitting us in various locations all over the gulf with drones, missiles and little boats?)
The US will experience a “Golden Era.” (Really? We’re one-and-half years into his second term. Where is the golden era?)
The Trump administration will release all the Epstein Files with minimal redactions, and the redactions that you do see will only protect the names of the victims. (Really, then where are the rest of the files, and why were a couple members of congress able to prove that the only people protected under several redactions that the members removed were the perps??? And why were multiple names of victims released at the same time?)
Trump is only named seven times in the Epstain Files and not in any incriminating way. (Many of the redactions covered Trump’s name, including a filed claim that he raped an underage gal, who bit his you-know-what over the sexual slavery he was forcing upon her. Whether the allegation was true or not, the White House claim that he was not mentioned in any incriminating ways was an absolute lie. Since then we’ve heard claims by some who should know that he is named more than 20,000 times in the files.)
A video proves Epstein was not killed in his cell. (I demonstrated thoroughly that the video did not even cover the several routes in and out of Epstein's cell that were available. Later reports corroborated completely my assessment of what the video was leaving out.)
DOGE is cutting government and will save us money. (None of the DOGE cuts resulted in scaling down the US deficit, and many of the people fired had to be rehired because they proved to be necessary. DOGE didn’t make a dent in the deficit because the president added government war spending faster than DOGE, even with all its incredibly ham-fisted firings, could reduce spending.)
We’ll arrest the criminal aliens that Biden keeps letting get away. (Here we have the one area where it almost looks like Trump is succeeding, given the huge increase in violent ICE actions, but just take a look at the results that in terms of those criminal aliens. The number of CRIMINAL aliens actually arrested—the ones Trump especially said he would be going after—has not even reached half of Biden’s levels:)
Biden must have caught and arrested most of those immigrant criminals after all, because this is Trump’s own data, and his administration appears to be having a hard time finding the ones who are criminals that got away, even though Team Trump managed to slam a number of pumpkin-picking mamas into Alligator Alcatraz, stripped of their children (who were stripped of their moms). On that particular immigration issue of catching the ones with criminal records, at least, Team Trump hasn’t done such a hot job.
OK, but what about the non-criminal aliens—the hard-working farm hands Trump has been deporting along with all those illegal bottle washers and sheet changers? Those numbers must surely be WAY up. You know, the ones he is actually SENDING BACK TO THEIR OWN COUNTRIES!
Meh! Trump’s first year, a little less than Biden’s final year. Not a high bar.
OK. Let’s stop with this short list and go back to my original question. We won’t even go into any of the many promises Trump failed to keep in his first term nor any of the many daily little lies he uses to feed his narcissism and justify his monuments to how great he is, which includes the lies about the scale of his accomplishments or sizes of his audiences. We won’t detail the multitude of corrupt-looking, Bidenesque deals during Trump’s 1.5 years of selling the presidency that have trumped all of Biden’s year by more than 100-to-1. This article just lists some of the BIG lies during the present term that really matter. However, the headlines that follow go into great detail about a lot of those things.
Even Trump’s “Freedom Fuel” from chosen gas-stations promoted by Trump that promised to deliver gasoline at $3.47 a gallon in honor of president #47 has proven to be a false promise already. With the war fully back on and Iran having voted not to negotiate at all, the prices couldn’t be maintained and have risen above that level, as was reported in today’s news.
Why do so many choose to believe someone who lies to them all the time?
What’s wrong with the 39% who keep believing this pathological liar? I personally think Trump has lied more often and in more blatantly obvious ways than any president who ever lived because the above list is just my own short list! The very short, off the top of my head, short list.
I bring this subject up, partly because of the poll I read earlier in the week about his popularity still in the upper 30s. I bring it partly up because Trump went right back to the lie about Iran desperately wanting to make a deal, which has been disproven more times than I can keep track, but, at least through 40 failed ceasefires, when each time Iran said it didn’t care much about making a deal with a serial liar. I bring it up especially because I overheard an old man at lunch today in my very, very Red farm town, saying, “They just HATE TRUMP. They HATE him, but they can never tell you why!” Really? I guess he doesn’t operate with his hearing aid most of the time because I’m certain they would have no problem coming up with their own list of betrayals and lies that explain why they hate Trump so much.
[I also brought it up because I knew he was about to give a big public speech tonight, and I was certain it would be filled with many lies, but it turned out worse than I thought.]
How about just one promise then—MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
IS IT??? IS AMERICA GREAT AGAIN?
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However, I promise I won’t ever chase the popularity contest at the cost of telling you the truth straight up ALL THE TIME, no matter how unpopular the actual truth may be. I have to think there is eventually an audience that just wants the truth—whether it finds the truth likable or not—and that maybe I can slowly find that audience. At least, things are moving in a more positive direction.
(The headlines that follow for paying subscribers go into great detail about Trump’s crooked deals, the shear volume at which he has sold the presidency or profiteered off of his own decisions with the timing of the announcements and his own heavy stock buys, and about his many, many lies:)
