President Trump's lack of honesty now reflects poorly on all communications coming from the White House. A new CNN poll finds that 71% of Americans say they trust little or nothing of what they hear from official White House communications. And, only 9% say they trust almost all of what the President and members of his administration say. 9%! Fewer than one in ten Americans have a high confidence level in what comes out of the White House. That is a tragedy and a national dis

On Wednesday the President of the most powerful and technologically advanced nation on earth displayed a map doctored with a Sharpie showing hurricane Dorian hitting Alabama to cover up his erroneous tweet warning that the state would be among the areas “most likely” to be hit by the storm. Try to get your head around that. While this certainly doesn't rank up there with his whoppers about climate change, the deep state, immigrants and wind mills, it does prove there just isn

Donald Trump claimed that he’s an environmentalist at a press conference after he skipped the G-7 meeting on climate change. EEnews.net: "I'm an environmentalist," Trump said. "I think I know more about the environment than most people." Despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary, some media outlets published his claim as if it's still a debatable topic about which reasonable people could differ. For instance: ABC News Via Twitter: "Asked if he is still skeptical about c

President Trump did his best to ruin the signing ceremony for legislation that will permanently authorize the September 11th victim compensation fund by making it about his imaginary efforts to help out at ground zero on 9/11. It's a brazen lie, even for Donald Trump. Trump statement, via Raw Story: “Many of those affected were fire fighters, police officers, and other first responders,” the president said. “And I was down there also, but I’m not considering myself a first r

Watching Donald Trump try to do foreign relations is cringe-worthy and infuriating. He is out of his depth and refuses to take time to learn any of the nuances of US foreign policy. He just blurts out absurd ideas and positions without any thought to their ramifications. And, often, as with so much else, he just makes things up. Yesterday is a wonderful case in point as he met with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan. Alyssa Ayres, Counsel on Foreign Relations: "In their joi