March 11, 2019: Trump Supporters - Was There Ever a Group of More Gullible Americans?

 

3/11/19: Once again, we have proof that the president will lie about any topic, big, small, medium sized, or just for practice. 

Last week, in a White House meeting, Trump inadvertently referred to Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, as “Tim Apple.” 

Most of us make these kinds of verbal slips every day. Trump is incapable of owning any mistake. He first claimed that he said, “Tim Cook, Apple.” The “Cook” was so soft no one heard him, except Trump’s imaginary friend.

 

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Donald J. Trump is incapable of telling the truth.

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Then today he changed his story again, tweeting: 

Not only is this idiotic, more than 100,000 Trump fans loved it.

 

The simple slip of the tongue shouldn’t matter. What does matter is that we learn again this is a man who can’t stop lying. Trump is the kind of guy who would deny chopping down a cherry tree even if you had him on tape, chips flying in all directions, as he wielded his little hatchet. 

 

Was there ever a group of more gullible Americans? 

Donald J. Trump is incapable of telling the truth. We need to keep that in mind when we consider his Big Lies. For years he promised he was going to prove that President Obama wasn’t born in America. Republicans believed what he said. Once Trump realized that lie was no longer resonating with the broader American public and was hurting his chances in 2016, he changed his stance. In a terse ten-word statement, he admitted the very least he could. “President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period,” was all he said. 

He didn’t explain. He didn’t apologize for pushing the birther myth for five years. He took no follow up questions, insisting he wanted to “get back to making America strong and great again [emphasis added].” 

This is the guy who whines about “Fake News” every day. 

In truth, “Fake News” often comes directly from Trump’s Twitter feed to his fans, via a stream of noxious tweets.  He offers up colossal errors of fact, and even when those errors are revealed, he never corrects mistakes. Recently he tweeted the “shocking” news that Texas had found 95,000 non-citizens registered to vote. Trump noted that 58,000 had in fact voted!

 

It was a meat-and-potatoes kind of right-wing fairy tale and the president’s fans gobbled up every bite and clamored for seconds, then pleaded for thirds. More than 140,000 Twitter followers “liked” his tweet. It was retweeted 41,000 times and took on a secondary and tertiary life of its own. 

Right-wing numbskulls, too lazy to read anything longer than 280-character tweets, were up in arms, ready to buy more guns, punch a few reporters, and “take America back.” The story of massive voter fraud spread like kudzu and couldn’t be stopped. Down in Texas, however, the tale was falling apart.

Notified by the State of Texas to start checking voter rolls, county officials in 254 counties set to work. It was immediately clear that the lists of 95,000 non-citizens registered to vote were so riddled with error as to be useless. We’ve already highlighted the results. (See: 1/31/19.) 

So, let’s use the results for McClennan County to make the main point. When McClennan officials began checking the list from the state, they found that of 366 “non-citizens” in the county who were registered to vote… um…366 just so happened to be U.S. citizens.

 

The problem, of course, is that even when Trump lies big – and he often lies huge – his fans still fall for it. If there has ever been a group of more gullible Americans, I’m not sure who it might be. 

Maybe people who fell for the story of the Cardiff Giant.

One believed to be the fossilized figure of an ancient man,

the Cardiff giant proved to be a hoax.