It has an extremely complicated plot so I won’t rehash it here, but the movie “Liar, Liar” is a story about a lawyer (ironically, played by Jim Carey) who can’t tell any lies for a day ... and his constant blurting out of the truth causes all sorts of problems. This affliction reminds me a lot of President Trump in that he is constantly turning victory into confusion by compulsively expressing his thoughts about a person or event ... thoughts that might be better left unsaid.
I know, I know the popular meme is that Trump is a serial liar. I think that the Washington Post has its mendacity count above 10,000. But these are mostly harmless exaggerations, not real whoppers like other politicians. When he really could defer and hide his true feelings about a domestic adversary (different story on many foreign ones ... I doubt that he really “loves” l’il Kim, Putin or Xi), he can’t seem to hold back. And so he has created many enemies ... enemies who , if they could, would like to see him disappear. We, who have not been so insulted, don’t have this same spittle-flecked emotion.
In fact much of America relishes Trump’s puncturing of so many egomaniacal balloons.
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