^ Growing up my parents told me that
being a liar was terrible. If you told lies no one would trust you. Telling the
truth was important. Being a good person was important especially if you wanted
to grow up and be President. Shows what they knew.
NOTE: Once again, if you’re a supporter of
President Trump there is no need for you to go any further. You won’t like it.
Guaranteed! Just consider me as being already told off properly with as much
ugliness as you could possibly imagine.
^ On a regular basis I check out
articles and videos to stay updated on events and information. Checking out
information these days is a little tricky but not as hard as some people make
it out to be. At times I check out often well intentioned posts to verify their
veracity. Usually I skip over the ones that are obviously false or that are
posted just to inflame passions be insulting rather than encourage civil
discourse. Like others I do slip up from time to time. (Most often when I do
slip up it’s due to a little too much wine or beer while I’m writing. I love
Jesus but I drinks a bit.) However, my intention is NOT to insult family,
friends or even strangers for that matter.
^ An article from a news source that I
don’t use other than for the entertainment value caught my eye. It just looked
to be false from the headline alone. I hate it when the headline indicates
something totally opposite from what is in the article. It’s aggravating but
headlines are by design supposed to attention grabbing. It seemed to imply that
President Trump said that wind turbines release fumes into the atmosphere. That
isn’t true. At least not in the videos where I saw him make the comments about
wind turbines. He said that it was the manufacturing process that was releasing
fumes into the atmosphere. Now I have to add the caveat that there may be other
videos where he did make the comment and was less clear about the source. I
will add here that the manufacturing of any large complicated machinery does
leave a carbon footprint.
^ His diatribes are becoming
increasingly random, lacking in cohesive structure. At times what he is saying
is simply gibberish. Fractured sentences. No discernable point. Just random
words strung together with some kind of implied meaning or authority. He used
to be a much better speaker when he was talking to a different audience.
^ In the video that I was watching
President Trump was talking about all of the negative aspects of wind turbines.
He really doesn’t like wind turbines. Trump mentioned that one of the negative
aspects of wind turbines is that they lower property values by 50%. That was
funny to me because I had just finished watching a video of him claiming that
they lowered property values by 75%. He does this kind of stuff all the time.
He just makes stuff up on the fly and if anyone has spent any time at all
watching our President they simply have to know this or they have been
incredibly unobservant. He has done this the majority of his adult life. It’s
what he does. He is seriously good at it.
^ I knew a person that was a
pathological liar. They lied about anything and everything. This person had a
breakdown and ended up in therapy. They reached a point where there were simply
too many lies to sustain and there were some serious consequences to some of
the lies that they told. Serious.
^ No, I don’t believe that President
Trump is going to have a breakdown. For one thing there haven’t been any
personal consequences to his lies. Others may have been harmed but not him. On
the contrary he has been rewarded. He is being enabled by all those around him,
his family, his associates, his supporters. Everyone else is his enemy.
^ There are entire web pages dedicated
and documenting the lies that he has told. He is over the 10,000 mark and
climbing. A business employee from one of his hotels maintained that if a
person spent an hour with Trump they would hear 10 to 15 lies. We just get to
hear the ones that he tells in public. Can you even imagine the number of lies
coming out of the White House on a daily basis?
^ I had the opportunity to study up on
Donald Trump years ago when gambling interests were pushing for an expansion in
Kansas. Trump was a casino operator then. He was a liar and fraud then as well.
He lied to gaming commissions. He lied to banks. Now, I understand that some
people may want to call what he did misrepresentations but they were lies pure
and simple. He used undocumented workers then. He stiffed working people then
just like he has continued to do until the present.
^ He was also a racist then.
I want people to understand that I don’t take calling anyone a racist lightly.
Anyone. I reached that conclusion based upon his actions up until then. He’s
covered a whole lot of other racist ground since that time. He didn’t like
black people then. He didn’t want them handling his money in casinos because he
didn’t trust them. He didn’t want them renting his apartments. He didn’t like
white women dating black men either.
^ It’s immaterial to me if people don’t
agree with this assessment. It’s like people claiming George Wallace wasn’t a
racist or that David Duke isn’t one. White Supremacists/Alt Right/White Nationalists/KKK
members/Confederates/Nazis etc. are drawn to and support President Trump for a
reason. They recognize that he is one of them and his policies towards brown
people are a reflection of that. If you support a racist and their policies you
end up in their camp. Hate crimes against people of color and Jews are increasing
for a reason. Racists have been emboldened by this Administration. After all
President Trump sees some of them as very good people.
^ As I often do I have strayed from the
path that I laid out in the beginning. I’ll get back to what I wanted to talk
about primarily. The lies of President Trump or rather my favorites. A
pathological or compulsive liar lies about anything. They lie when the truth
would serve them better. They lie with no particular rhyme or reason.
^ In all the things that I will and
have mentioned there are links available on the WWW to find them. I’m really
not going to bother. I usually post the links but I have found that people
don’t bother to go to them, refuse to believe them anyway for a multitude of
reasons or simply excuse his actions.
^ So, on with my favs:
·
My
all-time favorite is an interview that he did with Fox Pravda after he was
elected and before he assumed office. During the interview he was asked by the
host about the story that he punched his elementary music teacher and gave him
a black eye. Trump said that he didn’t know where that story came from. It came
from the book “Trump: the art of the deal” that he claimed he wrote. (The story is on page 71 if you have the
book.) No, he didn’t get expelled.
·
I
have heard people say that Trump lies about where his father was born but that
isn’t true. He lies about where his grandfather was born. In the book “Trump:
the art of the deal” He said that his father’s father Fred Trump was born in
Sweden. (Page 66) Nope. His grandfather father was born in Germany. He left
Germany to avoid three years of compulsory military service to his country. Sound
familiar? His grandfather’s name was Friedrich Trump. People will read that
name and think that it means Fred Trump his father.
·
Then
we have his initial claim before he had announced his running for President
that he would release his income taxes. This is a really big lie that he told
early on. He said that during an Irish television interview. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg-5KEt1Abg
) This was in 2014. Straight out. No qualifiers. He would release his taxes. It
was a very coherent interview. He was addressing a base of supporters then. No
theatrics. None of the sing song syntax. No name calling. It was a good
interview. I recommend anyone to watch it before the link is pulled. It’s had
less than 50,000 views. That’s kind of surprising to me at this stage of the
game. Now he’s asking the court to uphold his NOT releasing his income taxes.
·
That
Mexico would pay for the wall on our border. This is just a lie of epic
proportions. One of his main campaign themes. Really worked the crowds up. He
said that it would be easy. Monumental lie.
·
Repeal
and replace “Obama Care” with something better. Never happened. I consider it a
lie because he never had a better health care plan ready. It’s almost poetic
that so many of his supporters were insured under the Affordable Care Act and the
only thing that he along with the Republican Party have accomplished is to make
it worse not better.
·
Another
stand out lie occurred during the Republican primary when Trump was doing
interviews. This was essentially free campaign advertising for him. Free. He
played media beautifully. I was watching one interview where he was asked about
something and he talked extensively about it. Then at another interview with a
different network not ten minutes later he claimed to be unaware of the
subject. The panel had watched the interview on the other network and were
incredulous but didn’t call him out on it.
·
Self-funding.
Trump claimed numerous times that he would self-fund his campaign. Never
happened. Donald Trump, the avowed multi-billionaire was taking in money from
outside sources from the very beginning. He did spend his own money.
·
Not
golfing because he would be too busy working. This lie is just a hoot! He gave
his Presidential salary and so far we have spent $180 million guarding him
while he golfs not to mention the millions that have been spent at his various
properties. Remember when he complained about President Obama golfing? I’ll bet
that you do. Seriously now, the man is supposed to be a multi-billionaire.
Should hard working Americans really be picking up the tab for him?
·
Lock
her up! He announced after the campaign that this was just rhetoric. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix49LjgaTaI ) At his rallies they still chant about
locking her up. This one is really funny when you stop to consider how many of
his administration have been locked up so far and that he’s been impeached.
·
The
stories that he passes along about when he’s talking with someone and then the
names change the next time that he tells the same story. A Trump classic.
·
I
really got a kick out of the story where he claimed that grown men were crying
about some great thing that he did and the video of the occasion showed that no
one was crying.
·
I
watched a campaign rally recently where he claimed that he had started his
campaign a few months ago. He filed to run almost immediately after taking
office and has been going to rallies since the beginning of his Presidency. He
needs the love and admiration. It’s his fuel.
^ Oh really, that’s more than enough. Why
is any of this important?
^ It’s important because his word is
meaningless and the rest of the world outside of his base knows what he is.
They know that he simply can’t be trusted. After bailing on our allies the
Kurds and leaving their fate to the Russians and the Turkish strongman do you
think any remaining ally of ours feels like they can count on us when the chips
are down? Think that the President of the Ukraine doesn’t know that?
^ We don’t live in a vacuum. The people
of the world watch him. They see his actions. They hear his words. They know
his character. He was laughed at on the world stage because of the man that he
is.
^ I think that he’s going to get
elected again. I’ll get into the why of why I think that at another time.
^ In the meantime I believe that our
nation is better than the man at the top. I believe that we can do better. Much
better. I believe that knowing right from wrong and the truth are important. I
believe that character is important. What a person values is important.
^ This is more serious than Hillary’s
emails.