Another day, another pack of lies from the Prevaricator-in-Chief.
Apparently, everything Donald Trump said yesterday was a
lie. Well, probably not everything. If he said he wanted toast for breakfast
that was possibly true. If he said he wanted to wear a long red tie, or a blue
one with white stripes, that could have been true. And he did say that everything
bad that has happened to his administration was someone else’s fault.
That last statement, in and of itself, is also a lie, but
then he added, “We're not getting the job done. And I'm not going to blame
myself, I'll be honest." So Trump announced that he is not getting the job
done and he is not blaming himself for his own failures. Now that, my friends, is
the truth.
But back to the lies. Keep in mind, this was all in one, uh, day in the life.
(1) In a cabinet meeting, he said the Affordable Care Act is
dead. It is not.
It's true that Trump has done everything he could through Executive
Order to kill Obamacare, including withholding funds to advertise the
enrollment period, frightening insurance companies out of the marketplace and
now cutting off funds to pay government subsidies for enrollees, but the ACA lives
on. Premium rates are already established for 2018, open enrollment starts in two weeks
and millions of Americans are lining up for health insurance that they
couldn’t otherwise obtain.
Lawsuits have been filed against the Trump order, members of
Congress are weighing options to reinstate the subsidies and other suggestions are
being kicked around, so the ACA is alive and…well, it’s not alive and ‘well,’
but it’s alive all the same.
(2) He claimed that former presidents never called the families of slain
American soldiers, making Trump the first one to ever do that. This is so
blatantly not true that after he said it at a press conference, he had to walk
it back before the same event had even concluded.
Presidents all through history have communicated with the
families of our slain warriors as part of their solemn duty to America. Note
the use of the words “through history,” which explains why Trump didn’t know
that. Within minutes after Trump said this, the sister of a soldier killed in
action talked about President Bush hugging her as she cried, and reports came out that President Obama not only communicated with families but also visited the graves of lost soldiers in secret and alone
because he didn’t want to call attention to himself.
(3) Trump told reporters that Puerto Rico’s electrical grid had been a shambles before
Hurricane Maria, and the storm further destroyed all of the power plants on the
island. Again, not true.
Maria brought down power lines and damaged poles and
transmission towers – and much of the island is still without electricity – but
all of the power plants survived with little or no damage. It’s probably true
that Puerto Rico’s electrical grid was not the finest in the world before the
storm, but everything Trump said after that is a lie.
(4) Next, Trump announced that his relationship with Senate Majority
Leader Mitch McConnell “is outstanding” and “has been outstanding” for many
years since before Trump was a candidate. This is the same Mitch McConnell that
Trump spent all summer criticizing for dropping this ball and that ball and who
is now being targeted for overthrow by Trump’s former chief strategist, Steve Bannon.
And finally:
(5) Trump proclaimed, “With the exception of a few – and that is a very small few –
I have a fantastic relationship with the people in the Senate, and with the
people in Congress… Just so you understand, the Republican Party is very, very
unified.”
I’m just going to leave that right there, but if you want to
read a bunch of other lies, google "Trump press conference." There's some more doozies in there.
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