...It worked last election. He lied and lied, invented and invented, fabricated and fabricated....whatever BS dumb Americans were willing to hear, he gave them. And he won.
Maybe he doesn't do it consciously. Maybe stress and despair cause his narcissistic brain to automatically switch to generating wishful thinking, fantasy rubbish and outright fabrications just to feel good about itself.
Now he's trying again. As the midterm elections approach, Trump becomes stressed out at the very likely possibility that he will lose both chambers of Congress, whose consequence is that he becomes a lame duck without power but with still plenty of idiocy, dementia and senility.
But what is different from two years ago is that Trump's got major problems to account for with the American people, many more than when he was inheriting power from Joe Biden. Trump's war with Iran is draining the treasury, so are the trillions of dollars he added to the deficit, mounting inflation caused by both the war and his tariffs, grocery prices that are far higher than what they were under Biden, an American people sickened by his verbal slips, his vulgarity, his racism and sexism, and by the sight of an old senile imbecile hurling lies every which way, making a fool of himself before foreign dignitaries, and trying to make himself look much more important than he is by latching onto the achievements of other people and former presidents, and being happy to receive fake awards from submissive sycophants. Really disgusting.
For example, he keeps repeating that America is more respected now and is a "hot" country, when reality is the complete opposite. Trump's chaotic America is a laughingstock now around the world, though world leaders don't come out and shout it from the roofs because they are biding their time until the idiot is out. Ever since Trump's first term, countries around the world began establishing alternatives to the dollar, alternate trading blocs that keep America out, supply chains that avoid American products, and so on. The EU has increased its trading channels with China and with South America (Mercosur). Countries are buying up military ware from new sources....
What Trump refuses to see is that because of him, other powers are filling the vacuum created by his isolationism. "America First" has become "America Alone" and "America Aside". New superpowers are emerging like China (1.4 billion people), India (1.5 billion people), and the EU (450 billion people). Because of Trump's hostility, traditional American monopolies in these huge markets are slowly dwindling.
With midterms approaching, Trump's desperation at losing Congress is causing him to amplify his lies of fraudulent elections. Remember: In his criminal playbook, there is fraud if he loses, but no fraud if he wins, regardless of evidence.
[From: https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-administration-threatens-states-criminal-162229885.html]:
"He has frequently claimed without evidence that large numbers of noncitizens are swaying elections in the US. There is no proof that noncitizens are voting in large numbers in US elections. States regularly maintain voter rolls to remove people who are ineligible to vote for various reasons.
The federal government is seeking access to state voter rolls, which contain the personal data of millions of Americans. States have refused to turn the data over, resulting in lawsuits that the administration has been consistently losing.
Deidre Henderson, Republican Lieutenant Governor of Utah and the state's top elections officer, wrote on the social media site Threads that she had received a "love letter" from the federal government, "sprinkled throughout with threats of criminal prosecution". "I'm sure I'm not the only chief election officer of a state who is being targeted for following state and federal laws by resisting DOJ's demands for private voter data that have thus far been ruled illegal by at least a dozen courts," Henderson wrote. "This is truly bizarre behavior by the federal agency that is supposed to be protecting civil rights."
Adrian Fontes, Democratic secretary of state in Arizona, said it was "insulting" to insinuate that local elections officials were not properly maintaining voter lists, a key part of their jobs. "Arizona's election officials take their oath to uphold the law seriously," Fontes said in a statement. "Arizona election officials have always worked to ensure that only eligible citizens are registered to vote, and we will continue following Arizona law – not directions that come from political rhetoric or intimidation."
Trump hired a failed mafioso-type businessman friend outside the bidding process to embellish the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. The "friend" used subpar materials to line the bottom of the pool. Very quickly, cracks appeared, the material began peeling off, and algae began growing in the pool which turned green instead of the blue that Trump wanted. Members of the Trump administration, including the jackass-in-chief himself, have lied to divert the attention from their incompetence and corruption, by saying that vandals caused damage to the by gashing the lining, though they have not provided ANY evidence to support that claim.
It's never Trump's fault. He's infallible, like the Pope or the Supreme Ayatollah of Iran or Kim Jong Un of North Korea. He can never take responsibility for his crimes and misdemeanors. America, what have you become because of that dumbass?
As his dementia grows by the day, his Pinocchio nose keeps getting longer.
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Fact check: Trump’s false claims at his NATO press conference
Daniel Dale, CNN
Wed, July 8, 2026
US President Donald Trump arrives [with his special LIES BINDER prepared for him by his slaves] to hold a press conference at Beştepe Presidential Compound during the NATO Summit in Ankara, Turkey, on Wednesday. - Serdar Ozsoy/Getty Images
President Donald Trump delivered another series of false claims at a press conference Wednesday at the NATO summit in Ankara.
His comments included some of the long-debunked lies he told the press while meeting with Turkey's president on Tuesday. Here is a fact check of some of his Wednesday remarks.
Investment in the US
Trump repeated his frequent false claim that "we have $19.2 trillion" invested in the US in just "one year" of his current presidency.
That figure is fiction, as we noted when he made the same claim Tuesday and on numerous previous occasions.
At the time Trump said it on Wednesday, the White House's own website claimed there had been "$10.6 trillion" in "major investment announcements" this term, not $19.2 trillion, and even the White House figure was a major exaggeration of actual investment. A detailed CNN review in October found the White House was counting trillions of dollars in vague investment pledges – pledges that were about "bilateral trade" or "economic exchange" rather than investment in the US – and vague statements that didn't even rise to the level of pledges.
The White House figure includes pledges from US-based companies as well as foreign entities. Federal data published last month shows that new foreign direct investment in the US was about $232 billion in 2025.
Factory construction
Trump claimed: "We have the largest number of plants being built for the most money ever in the history of our country – car plants, AI plants, and all other plants, pharmaceutical plants." In fact, federal data shows that spending on US manufacturing construction has steadily declined during Trump's second term after a spike that occurred during most of former president Joe Biden's term (which had abated by the final months of Biden's term). You can clearly see the 2025 and 2026 decline in this official chart [https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TLMFGCONS]
The seasonally adjusted annual rate of manufacturing construction spending in May 2026, about $174.8 billion, was down about 28% from May 2024, the last May under Biden, and also down about 28% from December 2024, Biden's last full month in office. It was down about 26% from February 2025, Trump's first full month in office, and down about 22% from May 2025.
Trump and elections
Trump lied again about the 2020 election he lost, saying: "I've been right about everything, and I have been for a long time. It's how I got to be president three times. It's how I won three elections." He went on to repeat that he "won" the 2020 election but that it was a "rigged election."
Trump has been president twice and won two elections. He legitimately lost the 2020 election, fair and square, to Biden.
We'll leave aside his hyperbolic claim that he has "been right about everything."
Venezuela, prisons and migrants
Trump, speaking of former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, repeated his usual claim that Maduro "had people pour into the country from prisons; they opened up their prisons, they allowed them to come in." But Trump has never provided proof that Maduro-era Venezuela opened up prisons for migration purposes.
There was large-scale emigration from Venezuela amid economic problems, violence and political turmoil during the Maduro era. But despite multiple requests for evidence from CNN and other outlets, Trump and his team have never corroborated his frequent assertions that Maduro emptied prisons to get undesirable citizens to leave for the US; Roberto Briceño-León, founder and director of the Venezuelan Observatory of Violence, said in an email to CNN in June 2024: "We have no evidence that the Venezuelan government is emptying its prisons or mental health institutions to send them outside the country, in other words, to the US or any other country."
Helen Fair, an expert on global prisons at Birkbeck, University of London, told CNN in 2024 that she had "seen absolutely no evidence" that any country had emptied prisons to send prisoners to the US.
Migration under Biden
Trump, talking about immigration, repeated his false claim that there were "25 million people, I think more than that, under Biden" crossing the border. The "25 million" figure is false; even Trump's previous "21 million" figure was a wild exaggeration. Through December 2024, the last full month of the Biden administration, the federal government had recorded under 11 million nationwide "encounters" with migrants during that administration, including millions who were rapidly expelled from the country. Even adding in the so-called "gotaways" who evaded detection, estimated by House Republicans as being roughly 2.2 million, there's no way the total was even close to what Trump has said.
Oil prices
While speaking about the war with Iran, Trump said: "And you see the oil prices are lower than they were when I started." He didn't make clear whether he was talking about when he started his second term or when he started the Iran war in late February, but if it was the latter, his claim wasn't correct. Both Brent crude (the international benchmark) and West Texas Intermediate crude (the US benchmark) were pricier Wednesday afternoon than they were just before the war, though Brent was slightly below some of its late-February levels as recently as Monday.
Oil prices fell sharply amid the ceasefire between the US and Iran that began this spring and continued into summer. But they have jumped again in the last day – though not to anywhere close to the peaks of March, April and May – amid another exchange of attacks between the two countries, the resumption of US sanctions on Iranian oil sales and a Trump declaration that he thought the ceasefire was "over."
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