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The Trump Show Isn’t Over Yet.
I don’t think that anyone who supports Trump actually listens to anything he says. Or if they do listen, they don’t take the trouble to think about what he actually means. And I think this is the reason that when it comes to understanding or explaining Trump, the Fake News continues to get it wrong.
From the beginning of his Presidency, in fact just a few hours after the Inauguration ceremonies to an end, Trump ordered his then press guy, Sean Spicer, to announce that the crowd which attended the event was the biggest of all time. This blatant falsehood then got the Fake News all scrambling to keep a score on the number of Trump’s Presidential lies, with the Washington Post ultimately claiming a total of 30,573 ‘false or misleading statements’ over four years.
Trump not only refused to ever acknowledge all his false claims, but as time went on and he found himself fighting both Joe Biden and Covid-19, if anything his statements about everything departed from reality virtually every, single time.
When Trump wasn’t saying things which were demonstrably false, he went out of his way to be as angry and intolerant as he could be. So, in a speech to a police convention on Long Island in 2017, Trump told the cops there was nothing wrong with smashing a suspect’s head into the side of a police car during an arrest. He said it like this: “Like when…