June 16, 2015: Trump descends the escalator, announces his campaign, and immediately lies.

[Miles Archer]

Trump’s lies are so fast and furious — the Washington Post estimates that he has told five or six of them a day since he took office — that I got curious about what the very first lie he told when he started running for president, so I went back and had a look at his announcement for president in June of 2015.

I have to say, we should have seen him coming: a fake candidate, running a fake campaign, making a fake announcement for president in front of a fake crowd. That was Donald Trump on June 16, 2015, the day he descended the escalator in Trump Tower and announced that he was running for president. The lying began with the very first words out of his mouth as a candidate for president: “Wow. Whoa. That is some group of people. Thousands. This is beyond anybody’s expectations. There’s been no crowd like this.”

He had a row of American flags behind him, and he faced a crowd of what could have been, because of the size of the lobby of Trump Tower, only several hundred spectators. Who were they, these cheering “thousands?” Many in the crowd had been hired from a New York-based casting agency for movie extras, Extra Mile Casting. Four days previously, the agency had put out a casting call: “We are looking to cast people for the event to wear T-shirts and carry signs and help cheer him in support of his announcement,” the agency’s email said. “We understand this is not a traditional ‘background job,’ but we believe acting comes in all forms and that is inclusive of this school of thought,” the agency explained.

CNN would later report that on the street outside Trump Tower, “campaign volunteers flagged down pedestrians to hand them the campaign T-shirts and invite them inside for the announcement.”

https://www.salon.com/2018/06/06/donald-trump-has-been-lying-since-day-one/

[fleur-de-lisa]

1. I usually don't approve of attacking a person based on their appearance, but . . .

He really is grotesque. Inside and out. I just want to punch that ugly orange mug. And his vagina neck . . . GROSS!

[Miles Archer]

2. It's one of those rare situations where what's inside is an exact match for what's outside

I'm with you on this. When we attack a person based on their appearance, we run the risk of being tossing bricks at our own glass house.

My primary reaction to seeing any photo of Trump is that he has been turned inside out, that everything going on inside of him is now on the outside for all to see.

To my knowledge, we've never had a "president" who uttered such foul, hateful language. We can point back to things that Nixon said behind closed doors, but that's where those words were spoken...behind closed doors. While I don't applaud the nature of a "dual personality," for the most part, Nixon kept the FACADE of being "presidential" intact when it came to his interactions with the press, and the public.

Trump just doesn't care, because it's all about Trump.

[Initech]

3. Why am I not surprised that Trump is obsessed with crowd sizes and ratings?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

4. He's like an evil Alice (in Wonderland)

He tells (at least) six impossible lies before breakfast.