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RNS) — During the opening days of his first term, Trump achieved something
remarkable: according to
The New York Times, “He said something untrue, in
public, every day for the first 40 days of his presidency.” His spokesperson,
Kellyanne Conway, coined the Orwellian term “alternative facts” to try to
justify Trump’s insistence, despite clear evidence to the contrary, that the
crowd size at his inauguration was larger than Obama’s. By the time he was
finally forced from office four years later,
The Washington Post had logged
30,573 times that Trump had uttered false or misleading claims.
Trump’s lies, both big and small, have been corrosive to the foundations of
civil society and democracy, which depend on a shared sense of reality. But the
events of the first days of 2026 also show they are deadly. They are literally
killing us.
Given Trump’s inclination to dishonesty, his authoritarian leanings and his
inability to admit failure, it’s no surprise he would respond to electoral
defeat with what became known as The Big Lie: his false claim that the 2020
election was stolen from him. What is remarkable is how willing his followers,
including his stalwart white Christian supporters, were to embrace this lie."
Via Joyce Donahue.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
