Does It Matter Whether Trump Knows What He’s Talking About?

Remember how after Trump’s inauguration in 2017 he announced that the crowd was the largest that ever came to an inaugural event? Well, he’s at it again.

After the rally at Pickens, SC this past weekend, Trump said that more than 75,000 people showed up. The cops put the attendance at around 15,000.

How many times did Trump say something that wasn’t true while he was President? On average, 21 times every day.

But to give credit where credit is due, maybe we need to first understand what the word ‘lie’ actually means and whether we are using it properly as regards the behavior of Donald Trump.

As far as I know, the word ‘lie’ means that you know or believe something to be true and consciously say something else. You knew that you ran that red light but then you told the cop giving you a citation that the light was green.

I’m not so sure that Trump is lying when he says that he knows the 2020 election was rigged. He may actually really believe that he got screwed out of a second term. Even though it was Lincoln who freed the slaves, Trump may actually believe that he has done more for blacks than any other President because minority employment during his administration went up.