I went to see my dentist the other day, a devout Mormon and normally a very funny guy and I took the opportunity to ask him how Mormons feel about Trump. He pulled back his mask and got too close to my face and shouted, “I really don’t know about the majority of other Mormons, but do you want to hear what I think, Dave?” “Sure,” I said, knowing that I had made a terrible mistake. “I love the guy. And do you know why, Dave? I don’t like his tweets, but HE TELLS IT LIKE IT IS!!” He practically screamed the last part. He went on to add, “He is beholden to no one but himself, his supporters and the America he loves. Unlike all the other cowardly political robots, from Romney to Obama, he is his own man.” Fortunately, at that point, they called him from another cubicle, so I grabbed my free soft toothbrush and dental floss and fled.
If you have heard this once from a Trump diehard, you have heard it a million times. That perspective is so obviously contradictory, mindless, fallacious and defenseless, it is pathetic. The Washington Post (1/20/2020) found that within his first 3 years, Trump told 16,241 lies, while the New York Times (12/14/2017) found that in 8 years, Obama told 18, most unintentional and later corrected. In any given work hour, Trump told 2.6 lies while Obama told .001. Trump told 2,600 times as many lies as Obama. Trump supporters will scream that both the Times and the Post are liberal newspapers but I seriously doubt that either world class newspapers would jeopardize their reputations by printing front page lies about lies. Many of Trump’s alleged accomplishments are documented falsehoods perpetrated by himself, his kennel of lapdogs, and Sean Hannity. If your boss told 21 major lies every day about the financial and physical state of the company, wouldn’t you be a little queasy about job security? Would he make a good leader of the free world? In reality, Trump is telling it like it isn’t, rather than like it is.
