Trump’s real war isn’t with the media. It’s with facts.

Trump’s real war isn’t with the media. It’s with facts.

Delegitimizing the institutions that might report inconvenient or damaging facts about the president is strategic for an administration that has made a slew of impossible promises and takes office amid a cloud of ethics concerns and potential scandals.

I think the lies are just going to get more and more brazen and the defenses of his lies more and more bizarre.

Trump: crime and gangs are ruining the country. Actual statistics: that’s not remotely true.

Trump: crime and gangs are ruining the country. Actual statistics: that’s not remotely true.

Trump’s description of this country being a mess of crime and high unemployment is largely false. We have problems. We even have some growing problems with substance abuse. But crime is nearing historic lows and the economy is growing.

If you think the country is falling apart, you’re living in a bubble.

Trump’s Age of Ignorance Threatens Humanity

Trump’s Age of Ignorance Threatens Humanity

He seems hell-bent on ushering in an era where expertise is not just ignored, but actively disdained. This has manifested itself all over his still-short list of appointees, but the nominees related to science and health seem particularly egregious. These are Trump’s “unspecialists”—anti-experts, candidates that would be laughed off as absurdities if we weren’t living in the middle of a Philip K. Dick dystopia.