THE PRESIDENT IS LYING

Constantly.  Though maybe it’s not lying in the traditional sense if you’re unhinged from reality, living 24/7 in your own reality.

Whatever it is, it’s disheartening that 36% of our fellow citizens, give or take, are okay with a lying or delusional president.

Case in point from his latest Cabinet meeting: “I inherited the worst inflation in history.”

No, he inherited 3% inflation.  Which is about where it remains today.

(Inflation peaked at 23.7% in 1920 . . . nearly 14% in 1947 and again in 1980 . . . and 9.1% during the worst of the COVID supply chain disruptions in the middle of Biden’s presidency . . . but had dropped to 3% by the time he left, leaving Trump an economy The Economist called “the envy of the world.”)

THE PRESIDENT IS UNWELL

Dr. Gupta: Trump’s MRI Excuse Raises More Questions Than Answers.

(And if you missed Monday:  ‘Trump will not make it to the end of this term compos mentis’ | Psychologist analyses Trump.)

BONUSES (h/t Meidas)

> Conservative columnist George Will in the Washington Post: ‘A Sickening Moral Slum of an Administration’.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement.

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> Immigration attorney Aaron Reichlin-Melnick:

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Juan Orlando Hernandez isn’t just a drug lord, he’s a murderous drug lord. Among the things he was accused of doing was having a former ally hacked to death with a machete while in prison, because he was afraid the man would rat him out. Trump just freed him.

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Hernandez served 2 years of his 45-year prison sentence.  Trump determined that was enough.  He didn’t just commute the sentence by 95%, he issued a full pardon.  Hernandez had been convicted of facilitating the trafficking over 360 tons of cocaine into the U.S.

How do Trump’s supporters justify that?  How does it make America great?