Harry Litman - Trump's Alternate-Reality Government
Donald Trump is surely the most prolific and brazen liar ever to occupy the White House. From day one of his first term, when he confabulated wildly about the crowd size at his inauguration, he has fabricated nonsense so promiscuously that people—supporters and antagonists—have just come to assume you can’t trust what he says.
But in the last few weeks, Trump and his Administration seem to have broken through the lying speed of light, emerging into a whole new universe of bullshit. From the daily diet of blatant lies, fibs, and fabrications, they’ve taken up occupancy in a stratosphere of crazy, as if arriving through a wormhole from the other side of the universe. They’re now regularly peddling assertions that boggle the mind and leave commentators speechless—provoking a “what planet are you from?” kind of response.
What these claims provoke is less indignation than bewilderment—a sense of “I don’t even know where to begin.” In the last few days, two of the country’s most sure-footed cable hosts basically threw up their hands confronting Administration statements that vaulted over false or even ridiculous to the utterly bizarre.
On CNN, Kaitlan Collins—trying to make sense of yet another sweeping claim about what the Justice Department had or had not “authorized”—responded with exasperation: “None of what they’re saying lines up with the actual record, and I don’t know how else to say it.” (Over the weekend, Collins responded to Trump’s asinine tirade calling her “stupid and nasty” with grace and good humor.)
https://harrylitman.substack.com/p/trumps-alternate-reality-government
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