“No one, I mean no
one has ever topped me, never ever, believe me”
(Would you honestly buy a used car
from him)
My introduction for today is based that which follows: It reinforces and proves more
so again much of the entire world already knows about Donald J. Trump, and that is this:
He is one huge gigantic liar and he has been all his life
and that technique has been his strategy in life and now since he's been in the White House. That strategy is to lie, and worse, to know it’s a lie. All the while, he expects
his base or anyone else listening to fall for his lies; to believe them, and run with them for him and in many cases, along side of him.
If anyone shows or tries to show his lies, he calls them out with a nasty new name, and if it’s
reported, he calls it: “Fake news, a Hoax, or a Witch Hunt.”
Then he moves on to
the next whopper; each one it seems gets bigger or reinforces the last one. He will do,
say, try, lie, imply, or deny anything to benefit himself and his global-sized ego and name brand.
The story today is from WASHINGTON (The AP via U.S.NEWS) —
President Trump is distorting the truth on U.S. economic growth and jobs, pointing to record-breaking figures that don't exist and not telling the full story on black unemployment.
President Trump is distorting the truth on U.S. economic growth and jobs, pointing to record-breaking figures that don't exist and not telling the full story on black unemployment.
He cites the highest-ever
gross domestic product for the U.S. that's not there and predicts a spectacular
5 percent annual growth rate in the current quarter that hardly any economist
sees. On black joblessness, he boasts of a “new record low,” but the numbers in
fact have recently ticked upward, with greater declines seen during the Obama
administration.
The statements marked a week
of fiction in which Trump also made erroneous claims about the California wildfires
and the Russia investigation and falsely declared that his tariffs on foreign
goods will help erase $21 trillion in national debt. A look at the Trump claims
(Note: My emphasis highlighted):
ECONOMY AND JOBS
TRUMP: “One new and great
FACT — African American unemployment is the lowest ever recorded in the history
of our Country. So honored by this.” — Trump tweeted on Friday, August 10, 2018.
TRUMP: “I am proud to have
fought for and secured the LOWEST African American and Hispanic unemployment
rates in history.” — Trump tweeted on Saturday, August 11, 2018.
THE FACTS: Not exactly. He
omits important caveats like:
1. Black unemployment did reach a record low,
5.9 percent, in May. That rate has since risen to 6.6 percent in July.
2. Despite some recent progress, the black
unemployment rate is now nearly double that of whites, which is 3.4 percent. The most
dramatic drop in black unemployment came under President Barack Obama, when it
fell from a recession high of 16.8 percent in March 2010 to 7.8 percent in
January 2017.
TRUMP: “Economic growth, last
quarter, hit the 4.1. We anticipate this next quarter to be — this is just an
estimate, but already they're saying it could be in the fives ... I think we're
going to be very shortly in the fives.” — Trump remarks Tuesday, August 7,
2018, before a group of business executives.
TRUMP: “As you know, we're
doing record and close-to-record GDP.” — Trump more remarks that same Tuesday.
THE FACTS: No.
1. These are the latest in a string of
exaggerated claims that Trump has made about the U.S. economy.
2. While economists are generally optimistic
about growth, very few anticipate the economy will expand at a 5 percent annual
rate in the July-September quarter the president referred to. Macroeconomic Advisers, a consulting firm in St.
Louis, forecasts 3.2 percent growth in the third quarter. JPMorgan Chase
economists have penciled in 3.5 percent. The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
pegs it at 4.3 percent
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More background on that:
FACT: Trump loyalists are locked lips-to-äss with him 100% ... and all
across GOP la-la land – he simply can’t do anything that they do not like,
trust, or take for granted just because he says so. Trump loyalists refuse to
believe and trust anything or anyone except him – why is that?
1. Trump himself has at times been a purveyor of conspiracy theories, most notably in refusing for years to back down from his false claim that Barack Obama was not born in the United States.
1. Trump himself has at times been a purveyor of conspiracy theories, most notably in refusing for years to back down from his false claim that Barack Obama was not born in the United States.
2. He also asserted without evidence that Obama had wiretapped
Trump Tower.
3. He peddled the debunked idea that millions of illegal votes cost him
the popular vote.
4. He associated the father of Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of
Texas with the assassin who shot John F. Kennedy.
Methodology: Trump
thrives on causing chaos as part of his "deal-making skills" (either
chaos created and implemented by him or by someone else), then he milks it
while blaming all others for the chaos while ducking responsibility - and all
the while he reaps the benefits and claims victory.
Eventually, reality will kick
in and those loyalists will have to acknowledge that they have hung all their hopes
and dreams on an erratic, wannabe-elitist, con-man who sees the presidency as
another opportunity to advance Trump Empire, Inc. – the name brand on more
towers and into more shady profits for himself.
In reality, Trump's strategy is
actually very clever, very shrewd in fact, and very brilliant in style and
delivery, or at least some aspects. It follows a well-established pattern that
he has practiced and mastered for some 40 years. It goes something like this:
1.
Generate and spread wild BS and crappy deals.
2.
Sit back and watch it stick and spread to the target audience, or in this case,
not business investors or others who are gullible – now it’s the entire GOP
base and most of the all GOP-run Congress (who apparently are all scared to
death about his wrath):
3.
Stay on the message no matter what the facts show otherwise.
4.
Generate more, and uglier insults, nasty name-calling, and lies on top lies at
huge rallies.
5.
Point out the awful DEM reaction and that from the media as they close in with
the truth and facts.
6.
Then Trump starts saying, like daily or
so it seems like now when he or his legal team and W/H spokespersons say (in
unison): “See we told you so. All this time with the “Fake News, Hoaxes, a
Witch Hunt” just more Hillary Clinton and left lies about losing.” And now we have
turmoil, chaos, and disruption aimed at the president out their hatred for him,
his agenda for the American people with his great policy initiatives. They are
to blame, not him or us.”
My 2 cents: More at the AP-U.S.NEWS link. Trump, sadly
believes what he says no matter the truth or facts otherwise – that my friends
is a very serious character flaw not even discounting a more serious mental
issue.
But, I’ll leave that to the Fact Checkers – or, to the mental experts – great example of that from them is here (written by a Forensic Psychiatrist at the Yale
School of Medicine writing for 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health experts).
Thanks for stopping by.
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