We’ve grown numb to the fact that we have a president who feels no compulsion to speak truthfully.
We can rely on him only to be unreliable. And dangerous.
As a country, we erode under President Donald Trump’s steady shading of reality: His claim that his picture graced the cover of Time Magazine more than that of any other person; that he had the largest number of electoral votes since Reagan; that his inauguration crowd was larger than Obama’s; that he accomplished more than any other president in his first six months in office.
It’s easy to call it narcissistic. But it’s worse than that.
Trump doesn’t stretch truth just occasionally. As of May 1, over the 466 days since he took the oath of office, Trump has made 3,001 false or misleading claims, according to The Washington Post’s The Fact Checker’s database that “analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement uttered by the president.”