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Trump prepares preemptive falsehoods about his inauguration
01/18/17 11:23 AMUpdated 01/18/17 01:59 PM
By Steve Benen
Donald Trump declared weeks ago that he intends to set the all-time record for attendance at a presidential inaugural. By all appearances, thats extremely unlikely to happen.
But the president-elect spoke at a pre-inauguration event last night, where Trump made this interesting claim:
As a rule, whenever Donald Trump uses the word they, look out. In this case theyve announced record crowds are coming to the Republicans inauguration, but theres been no such announcement. They dont appear to exist outside of Trumps imagination.
But relying on them will enable Trump to claim a record without regard for actual attendance data. What were witnessing is a preemptive falsehood: the president-elect is laying the groundwork for an untrue claim about his inauguration that Trump seems very likely to make soon after he takes the oath of office.
Indeed, hes already told related falsehoods, such as, All the dress shops are sold out in Washington. Its hard to find a great dress for this inauguration. This wasnt remotely true, but Trump made the claim anyway.
And speaking of false claims, CNN reported that two senior Trump transition officials said yesterday that the president-elect wrote his own draft of his inaugural address.
The decision is a departure from how Trump tackled speeches during the campaign, when he either delivered off-the-cuff remarks or relied on text prepared by his senior policy adviser, Stephen Miller.
Look, if a politician and his/her team are going to make bold claims, they have to be at least somewhat plausible. In this case, Donald Trump didnt write his own books. He has literally no background in speechwriting. Hes never demonstrated any real interest in, or appreciation for, the written word. His communication skills are how do I put this gently outside the norm.
Is Team Trump seriously going to expect people to believe Trump put pen to paper and drafted an inaugural address for himself? Perhaps in between poorly written tweets about Saturday Night Live sketches?
Cmon. Bogus claims must at least have the ring of truth or theyre just fodder for comedians.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)I wonder what his supporters tell themselves as time goes on and it becomes clearer and clearer that he literally never tells the truth.
Literally never.
Oh, I guess on the rare occasion when the truth and his agenda are lined up, like what time is it, maybe then.
Wounded Bear
(58,660 posts)Jacob Boehme
(789 posts)We all know it.... anything he says or tweets is utter bull shit.
Cattledog
(5,915 posts)2naSalit
(86,635 posts)asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)noise...bull horns, fog horns, car horns..sirens, panic alarms on cars = oh so sweeeeet - I won't watch or listen to lies...I'll just wait here for the reports -
talk about draining the swamp - we have a swamp in congress, with a bunch of swamp urchins, like leaches setting up for the blood sucking..
Every congressman or woman that votes for any of the Dept. positions is a leach..
louis-t
(23,295 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,180 posts)he might have a point about the numbers.
Actually, even if he ONLY counts the people coming to protest, he might have a point.
I look for Fox to pull pictures of Obama's inauguration and try to pass them off as Trumpsky's.