Dishonesty is the defining characteristics of Trump and his administration, and lies are a daily occurrence. While there are far too many lies to track, I thought a thread dedicated to the worst and most notable lies would be useful. There’s a lot of material to choose from.
(I could have tapped into a rich vein of lies simply by linking to Trump’s Truth Social account — hence the OP title.)
Allan:
It’s also funny that Bill will demand evidence but then run away in terror when we ask him to look at it with us.
The longer all of this goes on, the more I believe that Bill isn’t trying to persuade us, he’s trying to persuade himself. Emotionally, he needs to convince himself that his position is rational and respectable and that his Dear Leader is being unfairly slandered.
When he writes
…I think he’s telling himself “See how open-minded I am? I’m perfectly willing to accept that Trump is a liar. It’s just that I’m also rational and won’t believe claims that can’t be supported, and no one has supported the lying claim. Well, except for one. See how open-minded I am? I acknowledged a Trump lie!”
None of us are stupid enough to believe it, but he is motivated to believe it. It would precipitate an emotional crisis if he didn’t.
Earlier in the thread, Bill commented:
The phrase “projecting patricians” tickled me. I assume Bill was trying to say “projecting partisans”, but who knows? Anyway, I decided to roll with it and think about what it means to be a “projecting patrician”.
I prompted Gemini:
She (I call her “Gem” — might as well have some yin to go along with Claude and Chip’s (ChatGPT’s) yang) was terribly confused and took a long time to answer. Her thought process was fascinating, and I’ll document it later on one of the AI threads.
To allay her confusion, I explained:
She said:
…and then proceeded to reason her way into producing the following image:
Haha. I love AI.