Lies failing, making him deeply frustrated

[struggle4progress]

By Greg Sargent
March 21 at 10:19 AM

... Trump and the White House have ventured far beyond unconventional levels of dishonesty ... revealing .. a profound contempt for democratic process .. wildly beyond anything in recent memory ...

... Trump .. is growing aware that his nonstop lies — or delusions, or self-deception, or whatever you want to call all of it — are failing him. And he’s frustrated by it. This is coming to us according to people close to Trump ...

This bad faith ... includes a frontal assault on the news media for accurately reporting on Trump’s inaugural crowd size, in defiance of Trump/White House lies about it. It includes Trump’s explicit exhortations to his supporters to disbelieve the news media and choose their own facts and reality instead. It includes the laughably slapdash process that produced the first travel ban, and the decision to delay the second one to bask in good press from Trump’s speech to Congress, even though it was supposed to be an urgent national security matter ...

It includes Trump embracing a health plan that would leave 24 million people uninsured after promising “insurance for everybody.” It includes the continued presidential trips to Mar-a-Lago, which use the power of the White House to promote memberships at the Trump-owned resort, sinking money into his pockets. As ethics experts Norm Eisen and Richard Painter detail, the broader pattern here is unprecedented — it isn’t just that the known transgressions reveal deep disdain for ethical norms; it’s also that the full scale of the violations remains unknown, due to Trump’s own lack of transparency ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/03/21/trumps-lies-are-failing-him-and-it-is-making-him-deeply-frustrated/?utm_term=.013e6cf3587f

[HipChick]

1. Frustrated by the truth?...

[Wounded Bear]

2. K & R ......for visibility..nt

[maxsolomon]

3. He can't understand why the NYT and the WaPo don't roll over now that he's POTUS

It's sending him off the deep end.

He's always lied deliberately as a strategy, to confuse, mislead, and bully, and it worked. He got elected POTUS.

But now, he's lying indiscriminately. He's lying when he doesn't have to.

[world wide wally]

4. Pathological liars do get pissed off when you call them on a lie

[Martin Eden]

5. But the LIES served him so well in the election!

He got so confident in just making shit up that he really doesn't know any other way.