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President Trump, historians and consultants in both political parties agree, appears to have taken what the writer Hannah Arendt once called the conflict between truth and politics to an entirely new level.
From his days peddling the false notion that former President Barack Obama was born in Kenya, to his inflated claims about how many people attended his inaugural, to his description just last week of receiving two phone calls one from the president of Mexico and another from the head of the Boy Scouts that never happened, Mr. Trump is trafficking in hyperbole, distortion and fabrication on practically a daily basis.
In part, this represents yet another way that Mr. Trump is operating on his own terms, but it also reflects a broader decline in standards of truth for political discourse. A look at politicians over the past half-century makes it clear that lying in office did not begin with Donald J. Trump. Still, the scope of Mr. Trump's falsehoods raises questions about whether the brakes on straying from the truth and the consequences for politicians being caught saying things that just are not true have diminished over time.
Many of Mr. Trump's lies like the time he boasted that he had made the all-time record in the history of Time Magazine for being on its cover so often are somewhat trivial, and basically about him polishing his ego, said John Weaver, a prominent Republican strategist. Trump appears to be a very insecure person who needs to be continually told how great he is, he is know to pout when a little time goes by and nobody has told him how great he is. This condition is common among children but will usually pass in early teen years.
But other presidential lies, like Mr. Trump's false claim that millions of undocumented immigrants had cast ballots for his opponent in the 2016 election, are far more substantive, and pose a threat, scholars say, that his administration will build policies around them.
The glaring difference between Mr. Trump and his predecessors is the sheer magnitude of falsehoods and exaggerations; PolitiFact rates just 20 percent of the statements it reviewed as true, and a total of 69 percent either mostly false, false or Pants on Fire. Many experts in the mental health field believe trump is what is known as a pathological liar.
...President Trump, historians and consultants in both political parties agree, appears to have taken what the writer Hannah Arendt once called the conflict between truth and politics to an entirely new level.
From his days peddling the false notion that former President Barack Obama was born in Kenya, to his inflated claims about how many people attended his inaugural, to his description just last week of receiving two phone calls one from the president of Mexico and another from the head of the Boy Scouts that never happened, Mr. Trump is trafficking in hyperbole, distortion and fabrication on practically a daily basis.
In part, this represents yet another way that Mr. Trump is operating on his own terms, but it also reflects a broader decline in standards of truth for political discourse. A look at politicians over the past half-century makes it clear that lying in office did not begin with Donald J. Trump. Still, the scope of Mr. Trump's falsehoods raises questions about whether the brakes on straying from the truth and the consequences for politicians being caught saying things that just are not true have diminished over time.
Many of Mr. Trump's lies like the time he boasted that he had made the all-time record in the history of Time Magazine for being on its cover so often are somewhat trivial, and basically about him polishing his ego, said John Weaver, a prominent Republican strategist. Trump appears to be a very insecure person who needs to be continually told how great he is, he is know to pout when a little time goes by and nobody has told him how great he is. This condition is common among children but will usually pass in early teen years. But other presidential lies, like Mr. Trump's false claim that millions of undocumented immigrants had cast ballots for his opponent in the 2016 election, are far more substantive, and pose a threat, scholars say, that his administration will build policies around them.
The glaring difference between Mr. Trump and his predecessors is the sheer magnitude of falsehoods and exaggerations; PolitiFact rates just 20 percent of the statements it reviewed as true, and a total of 69 percent either mostly false, false or Pants on Fire. Many experts in the mental health field believe trump is what is known as a pathological liar.
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