Trump's superpower is no longer working

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Trump’s superpower is no longer working
Distracting the media and the public is not making the Epstein scandal go away

By Brian Karem
White House columnist
Published July 24, 2025 9:00AM (EDT)


(Salon) Fifty-six years ago this week, U.S. astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed and walked on the moon.

Today, millions believe that trip never happened. Instead, they are content in the belief that it was all created on a Hollywood soundstage. “Our science wasn’t advanced enough to go to the moon,” is one conspiratorial argument. Many of those same people think our science is currently advanced enough to create vaccines to cause diseases, pollute the skies with chemtrails and seed clouds to cause life-ending flash floods — even though climate change can’t possibly be caused by humans, because we’re not advanced enough to influence the weather.

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Trump is apparently racing toward dementia at breakneck speed. He’s Jesus’ best friend. He’s admired as a genius. He’s derided as a charlatan. He’s lied about bone spurs, where Obama was born, his university and his charities. He’s lied about clearing rubble at Ground Zero, lied to his wives, lied about the perfect phone call, inauguration crowds, classified documents, the insurrection and losing an election.

Yet many still believe the president. Imagine, then, what it must be like to deal with his administration as a reporter, and to hear him and his staff repeat easily discoverable and previously documented lies with impunity every day. The words “communists,” “socialists,” “evil Democrats,” “witch hunt” and “fake news” spew forth, not only with vigor, but as if nothing more needs to be said about any subject other than a catchy headline. On Tuesday, Trump even got it down to a simple sentence: “It’s time to go after people.”

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Never mind. That explains Donald Trump’s continued, recent presence in the hot, glaring light of public attention. He has already tried to deflect this by going after Obama, accusing him of treason. But Trump’s distractions aren’t working this time.

For the first time, maybe, in his life, Trump can’t convince his crowd that man didn’t land on the moon. ......................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2025/07/24/trumps-superpower-is-no-longer-working/