lies and more lies....

I ended up posting what was to be the first post in "blog details". I don't want to repost it here as that would be redundant.

CNN does fact checks. Came across this article:

Let's check out some of the lies.

“No inflation” amid continued inflation​

There is inflation in the United States. Prices were 2.7% higher in July than they were a year prior and 0.2% higher than they were in June. One can debate how good or bad those figures are. But Trump said Tuesday, as he has repeatedly this summer, that “there’s no inflation.”

Trump briefly used softer rhetoric in mid-August, declaring that “our inflation is down to a perfect number, a beautiful number, hardly any at all.” This subjective language didn’t hold. The very next day, Trump returned to his regular assertion that “we don’t have inflation.”

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Inflation is holding at 2.7% with core inflation (excludes food and energy) is at 3.1%.
People are aware that prices are up.

The water Trump says he sent to Los Angeles (he didn’t) by turning a “valve” (that doesn’t exist)​

On Tuesday, Trump told his usual story about how “now they have water” in Los Angeles because he “turned the valve” to send the city water instead of having that “valve” direct the water to the Pacific Ocean.

The story is nonsense – as experts in California water policy have pointed out for months.

First, there is no single “valve” that controls California water flows. Second, what Trump actually did in late January and early February was send billions of gallons pointlessly released from two dams in one part of the state’s Central Valley to another part of that valley, more than 100 miles north of Los Angeles. The water did not go to Los Angeles, which has no automatic connection to the dams.

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He just makes stuff up. He ordered the release of water from a dam that for for farmers and messed up farms. It never went to LA.

A fictional story about Biden and South Korea​

Trump repeated his long-debunked “$350 billion” Ukraine-aid figure while sitting beside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last week. Then, this Monday, he repeated his long-debunked story about US relations with South Korea while sitting beside South Korean President Lee Jae-myung.

Speaking of the presence of more than 26,000 American military personnel in South Korea, Trump said, “As you know, South Korea agreed to pay for that during my last term. And then when Biden came in, they complained to Biden that I wasn’t a nice person and he agreed not to pay. He gave up billions of dollars. We were getting paid billions of dollars, but then Biden ended that for whatever reason. It’s unbelievable that he did.”

This is a reversal of reality.

Biden didn’t agree to let South Korea stop sharing the cost of the US military force in the country. Rather, under Biden, South Korea signed two cost-sharing agreements with the US, one in 2021 and one in 2024, that both included substantial South Korean payment increases.

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Again, he just makes stories up and repeats lies. This is either the behavior of a man with dementia or of a disturbed individual who needs to create his own reality because he is insecure.

A disproven tale Trump claimed had been proven​

Trump told a story on Monday in which he claimed a Democratic governor with whom he has been trading public barbs this month, Gov. Wes Moore of Maryland, told him during a behind-the-scenes conversation last year, “‘Sir, you’re the greatest president of my lifetime.’” The story was disproven by Trump-friendly Fox News the very same day: it turned out that a Fox documentary show had recorded the conversation, in which Moore didn’t say anything close to what Trump claimed.

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This brings a line in a movie (A Few Good Men) to mind - "You can't handle the truth!" Creating one's own reality and not accepting truth should disqualify a person from the presidency. He is dangerous to America.

He is lying about his trade deals: where are the signed documents? Where they approved by Congress? NO, they do not exist.

Trump is getting tech CEOs to lie with him. The other day, Zuckerberg was caught by a hot mic moment:

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg perhaps had that number on his mind this week when he joined his fellow Silicon Valley heavy hitters at the White House for a dinner with President Trump. Zuckerberg was seated next to the president, who at one point leaned over and asked him, "How much are you spending, would you say, over the next few years?"

A flustered Zuckerberg responded, "Oh gosh, um, I mean, I think it's probably going to be something like, at least $600 billion through '28 in the US, yeah."

"That's a lot, that's a lot," Trump said.

It is indeed. Once the discussion concluded, Zuckerberg leaned over to Trump to privately admit the president had caught him off guard. "I'm sorry I wasn't ready...I wasn't sure what number you wanted to go with," Zuckerberg said in a revealing moment caught on a hot mic.

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What Trump wanted to go with? There will be no investment like Zuckerberg said.

lies and more lies