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How Come Trump Keeps Saying Things Which Aren’t True?

Mike Weisser
4 min readAug 11, 2024

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How can I say what I’m about to say without sounding like a complete and utter fool? Alright, I’ll give it a try and if it comes out stupid or completely fucked up, it’s Sunday afternoon so who really cares, right?

What I am going to say is that it really doesn’t matter what Trump says or doesn’t say in the campaign, and anyone who wants to try and figure out how come he says so many things which aren’t even remotely true needs to understand what this business guy turned President and now former President trying to become President again is really all about.

For example, there’s a story going around the digital superhighway about Trump who’s claiming that the pictures of large crowds at Kamala’s rallies are all fake. According to Trump, the photos are all doctored using AI, and she isn’t drawing anywhere near the number of people who are coming out to the rallies where Trump appears and speaks.

Let’s remember that Trump ordered his press secretary to report a totally fictitious number of people who came to his Inauguration in 2017. He has also claimed that his crowd had more people than the number who crowded into the Mall to hear Martin Luther King’s ‘I have a dream’ speech in 1963.

I can’t take the time to search the reference, but at some point, during the 2020 campaign a…

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Mike Weisser
Mike Weisser

Written by Mike Weisser

Former college professor, IT Vice-President, bone fide gun nut, https://www.teeteepress.net/

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