Lies
The ABC News reporter asked Steve Bannon if Trump ever lied and Bannon said ‘never’ then the reporter asked, Never? and Bannon quipped, “Except when he called me Sloppy Steve.”
Politicians telling tall-tales is an old story but, like insults and boasting, in days past lying was a taboo – Democrats, Republicans, Liberals, Conservatives all shared that common belief. Back in 1972 Richard Nixon crushed George McGovern in a landslide but two years later he was out of office because a lie undid him.
It’s doubtful politicians were more virtuous back then but they were more afraid of being caught in a lie – but no more.
Trump once boasted he’d been on the cover of Time Magazine ‘14 or 15 times’ – but he hadn’t.
Another time he said he’d won more Electoral College votes than any President since Ronald Reagan. But George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama all won more Electoral College votes than Trump.
After his summit in Singapore with Kim Jong-un, Trump said that the parents of Korean War soldiers had begged him to get Kim to ‘repatriate American war dead’ – and he’d done it. But stop to think for a moment: The father of a soldier killed during the Korean War would have been around 40 years old in 1950 which would make him 108 years old today.
Once people in our country frowned on bragging and insults and lies but these days Trump lies and there is no reckoning – so the infection is spreading. But you can’t lay all the blame at Trump’s doorstep. He didn’t create the new era – he embraced it but so have others.
Remember when CNN, back during Trump’s inauguration, reported Nancy Sinatra was ‘not happy’ that Trump played ‘My Way’ at his inaugural ball – then Nancy Sinatra said, That’s not true. I never said that.
Lies
The ABC News reporter asked Steve Bannon if Trump ever lied and Bannon said ‘never’ then the reporter asked, Never? and Bannon quipped, “Except when he called me Sloppy Steve.”
Politicians telling tall-tales is an old story but, like insults and boasting, in days past lying was a taboo – Democrats, Republicans, Liberals, Conservatives all shared that common belief. Back in 1972 Richard Nixon crushed George McGovern in a landslide but two years later he was out of office because a lie undid him.
It’s doubtful politicians were more virtuous back then but they were more afraid of being caught in a lie – but no more.
Trump once boasted he’d been on the cover of Time Magazine ‘14 or 15 times’ – but he hadn’t.
Another time he said he’d won more Electoral College votes than any President since Ronald Reagan. But George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama all won more Electoral College votes than Trump.
After his summit in Singapore with Kim Jong-un, Trump said that the parents of Korean War soldiers had begged him to get Kim to ‘repatriate American war dead’ – and he’d done it. But stop to think for a moment: The father of a soldier killed during the Korean War would have been around 40 years old in 1950 which would make him 108 years old today.
Once people in our country frowned on bragging and insults and lies but these days Trump lies and there is no reckoning – so the infection is spreading. But you can’t lay all the blame at Trump’s doorstep. He didn’t create the new era – he embraced it but so have others.
Remember when CNN, back during Trump’s inauguration, reported Nancy Sinatra was ‘not happy’ that Trump played ‘My Way’ at his inaugural ball – then Nancy Sinatra said, That’s not true. I never said that.