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Trump Is Touting Imaginary Calls About Imaginary Praise For Awful Performances

posted onAugust 2, 2017
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Article snippet: Posted at 11:00 pm on August 1, 2017 by Susan Wright I honestly can’t tell at this point if Trump lies because he knows his fawning base will believe anything he says, without question, and it’s just sport for him, or if he lies because of some pathological root. Either way, it’s a day ending in a “y” so there’s another Trump lie being talked about. Apparently, after the nonsensical speech Trump delivered to the Boy Scout Jamboree several weeks ago, where he railed on “fake news,” talked about yachts and wild cocktail parties, and got the crowd to boo the mention of former President Barack Obama, Trump felt the need to say during a Wall Street Journal interview that the head of the Boy Scouts of America called to tell him he’d given the “greatest speech” ever made to them. Yeah. About that… The organization is now saying they are not aware of any such call being made. From Time.com: That doesn’t really sound like a statement coming from an organization that was particularly impressed with the rambling, garbled word salad that makes up the typical, self-absorbed Trump speech. Just to sort of bring things into focus, this is the Boy Scout Oath: Nothing about that seems relatable to Donald Trump. Well, the words “my,” and “myself” are pretty Trump-specific, but that’s the limit. Seriously, if Trump can’t control himself and keep his message appropriate for a Boy Scout gathering, and he can’t keep from lying about it afterwards, his public engagements need to be ... Link to the full article to read more

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