Donald Trump: Difference between revisions

** His claim that being [[Persona Non Grata|banned from all major social media sites]] at the end of his presidency was a violation of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. The First Amendment forbids the government -- and ''only'' the government -- from regulating speech. Private entities are permitted -- in fact, ''required'' at times -- to regulate speech which they enable. Further, businesses are permitted to refuse to service to anyone they care to -- a right supported all the way to the Supreme Court by conservatives, who only imagined it being used by Christian bakeries to refuse to make cakes for gay weddings. Not to mention that the social media sites which have banned him have also banned other world leaders and political figures for identical behavior, putting the lie to his insistence that he is being specifically targeted.

** As of March 30, 2021, [https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/30/trump-campaign-non-disclosure-agreement-478648 a federal judge has ruled that the Non-Disclosure Agreements Trump had his campaign workers sign were so broad as to be unenforceable], suggesting that Trump's desire to control his employees' speech exceeds his understanding of the laws regarding the legal ways of doing so.

* [[Artistic License Medicine]]: His [https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-suggests-injection-disinfectant-beat-coronavirus-clean-lungs-n1191216 notorious speech] where he suggested drinking bleach or using an "injection" of disinfectant to clear a Covid patient's lungs is often regarded as one of his costliest mistakes.

* [[Attack! Attack! Attack!]]: Trump rarely if ever backs down. No matter the potential foolishness or folly, he will almost inevitably double down when called on it, usually citing unspecified anonymous "people" who agree with him or certify him as being correct.

* [[Big Bulky Bomb]]: He became the first president to deploy a MOAB, the so-called "Mother of All Bombs" (which itself is a [[Shout-Out]] to Saddam Hussein's "mother of all wars" boast) in 2017. This bomb is so big it has to be launched out the back of a cargo plane, but it's only a conventional explosive.

* [[Big Lie]]: For nearly a year (so far) after the November 2020 election, Trump and his allies -- including Senators Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz -- claimed without proof that [[Joe Biden]]'s victory had been the result of a vast program of voter fraud executed by the Democrats. While they repeatedly insisted that they had evidence to prove this assertion, none ever materialized and no court (out of sixty lawsuits) ruled in their favor. One lawsuit filed with the Supreme Court of the United States by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in early December 2020 actually claimed that [[Insane Troll Logic|the complete lack of any evidence of voter fraud was in fact ''proof'' of the existence of a massive conspiracy that had ''perfectly'' hidden all traces of both its existence and its efforts to "undermine" the "true" results of the election.]] Regardless of the absence of any proof, the members of Trump's [[Cult of Personality]] uncritically accepted these claims, which directly led to the mob assault upon the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.

* [[Blatant Lies]]: Has been [https://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/ accused of doing this frequently], though not without reason. The ''Washington Post'' began keeping a record false or misleading claims (lies), [https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims/?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.8c818bcde19a totaling 492 in his first 100 days in office], [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/05/01/president-trump-has-made-3001-false-or-misleading-claims-so-far/ 3001 in his first 466 days], [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/08/01/president-trump-has-made-4229-false-or-misleading-claims-in-558-days/ 4,229 in his first 558 days] and [https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/?utm_term=.b83bfa941966 6420 in his first 649 days]. His lie count varies, but in the first 466 days of his Presidency, he averaged 6.5 'false or misleading claims' a day, whereas in June and July of 2018, [https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/trumps-escalating-war-on-the-truth-is-on-purpose he averaged 16 lies per day]. This dramatic uptick seemingly [[Nothing to See Here|coincided with]] increased pressure from the Mueller investigation. The exponential lie count continued under the aforementioned pressure, coupled with the run up to the Mid-Term elections on November 6, 2018. According to [https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/?utm_term=.b83bfa941966 the graph in the ''Washington Post''], Trump has lied/ made false claims over 1000 times in October 2018].

** As of November 1st, 2018, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/when-i-can-i-tell-the-truth-trump-pushes-back-against-his-peddling-of-falsehoods/2018/11/01/e8278d68-ddbe-11e8-85df-7a6b4d25cfbb_story.html?utm_term=.d0db42789b88 Trump claims to tell the truth "when [he<nowiki>]</nowiki> can"]