Trump Has Told Over 10,000 Lies As President

Donald Trump, the spoiled and entitled little rich-kid who grew up to be a serial bankrupt, a malignant narcissist, and a pathological liar. A petulant man-child, untethered from reality, whose monstrous ego compels him to tell the most outrageous lies to aggrandize himself.

And they are outrageous lies. Donald Trump is a ‘stable genius’. He knows more about war than any general (despite being a draft-dodger). He knows more about law than lawyers, more about science than scientists, more about economics than economists, and more about foreign policy than any foreign policy expert. He’s the greatest businessman the world has ever seen. The greatest American President in history. He’s told us all of this and much more. He says it over and over, as if repetition might somehow make it true.

In reality Trump is a deeply damaged, weak, narcissistic mess of character flaws so desperate for admiration that he makes these childish boasts to cover up his well-documented ignorance and failures. Whether he actually believes what he says is debatable. That he expects anyone else to is delusional. It might be pathetically touching if he weren’t such a horrible human being. It would indeed be richly comical if he weren’t in a position of power. The Orange Emperor has no clothes, and his naked incompetence is plain to see for everyone but his kool-aid drinking Maga cult followers..

But this isn’t just another diatribe against America’s worst president ever. Let’s give credit where it’s due. Finally, after a lifetime of never being good at anything Trump IS now officially the best at something. The greatest. Number one. He stands head and shoulders above every presidential predecessor in this one respect and nothing else. Nobody even comes close to him. What is he so great at ? Well, Donald Trump is the biggest LIAR ever to occupy the Whitehouse.

And what lies they are ! There’s nothing remotely subtle or clever about them. Most are embarrassingly childish and clumsy. They are easily fact-checked and exposed. Bizarrely, though, when called out on lying he doesn’t correct his lie and apologize as any normal person would. He doubles-down and either repeats the lie or adds even bigger lies to support it. Those who have followed Trump’s career over decades say he has never been any different.

Fortunately, for those outside of his Maga cult and for future historians, the Washington Post has been carefully fact-checking and recording Trump’s lies since he became President. This week marked a shameful milestone. Trump officially passed the 10,000 lie mark. Yes, this utter disgrace of a man has publicly lied to the American people more than 10,000 times since taking office.

And make no mistake, he’s getting worse. During his first 601 days in office pathological liar Trump made 5,000 false and misleading statements however his lying has dramatically accelerated since then, with almost 23 lies every day in the seven-month period beginning in late October during midterm elections.

Just recently, between April 25 and April 27, Trump made a staggering 171 false or misleading statements—more than any similar period in his first five months in Washington. If he goes on at this rate, he’s on track to tell a mind-blowing 35,000+ lies by the end of his first term. Of course, as he becomes increasingly deranged that number could be even more ! He may get to the point where nothing he says is ever true ! He is already past the point where we must assume everything he says is a lie until proven otherwise.

It’s a sobering thought (if two years of Trump has driven you to the bottle). Yes, Donald Trump might be the worst president America has ever had. Sorry. Strike that. Not ‘might be’. He is. Unarguably. He’s a crooked, self-serving, borderline psychopath who manages to tick the boxes of racism, islamophobia, misogyny, and white-nationalism, as well as sheer dumb ignorance and incompetence. It’s quite a toolbox he brought to the Presidency.

But at last (and at least) Trump has achieved what he has pursued so desperately since childhood. He is exceptional at something. He’s finally officially great at something rather than nothing. The thing is LYING. Once again, he has told over 10,000 lies to the American people since taking office. Take a moment to let that sink in. The scale of his mendacity is staggering. Nothing compares.

So well done Donald. Take a bow. You’re the undisputed greatest at telling dumb lies. Don’t rest on your laurels, though. The sky is the limit, although the gullibility of some of your followers apparently has no limit. The rest of us have faith that you can make it to 35,000 lies before the 2020 election. Go for it. We’re all watching you.

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(cartoon by Steve Sack)

Opinions/Advice

I work in a hotel and my friend also happens to work in the same hotel with me. We both work front desk but on the side but I also do waitressing for the kitchen for breakfast 2x a week. I was having dinner after work with my friend/coworker and I was discussing how I’m confused how I’m getting paid more on my paychecks when I’m getting less hours but she reminded my tips are getting added in too (so my pay of 11.50xhoursxtips). She calculated for me on her phone and it did add up but then she realized she’s getting paid less (only $11.25 hourly). Over the next few days we discussed and she felt that she should at least also get paid $11.50 hourly because they want her to work as front desk executive management and we’re having a lot of changes to the hotel and staff. Front desk has been getting more and more responsiblity that usually upper management wouldn’t let us do without their approval, she feels she should be compensated for that because she works full time (I don’t) even if it is .25 cents. And I agreed, they are constantly pushing her to the brink of what she can handle and when other coworkers demand a pay raise or else they would quit (and they have). She texted our manager about maybe getting some answers. Our manager told her that I was paid differently because we negotiated my pay rate at my interview (slightly untrue) and that talking to other employees about their pay rates is against code of conduct in the employee handbook (it’s not, I looked and also it’s against the law for there to even be a policy about that). Now, my manager wants to speak to us separately and my coworker has heard for our operations manager that she is planning to write us up/reprimanding us for talking about our wages.

So, I’m just asking in this situation what would you do? My coworker says she’s going to quit if she gets a write up but I think it would be best to talk to our corporate management company (HR).

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