Kpdemello wrote:
The final key to the way I promote is bravado. I play to people’s fantasies. People may not always think big themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do. That’s why a little hyperbole never hurts. People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular. I call it truthful hyperbole. It’s an innocent form of exaggeration—and a very effective form of promotion.
That would be a quote from Trump's book, Art of the Deal. He literally says that he exaggerates the truth. That he plays to people's fantasies. Then he uses the Orwellian phrase, "truthful hyperbole"
Hyperbole is another name for lying. Calling something the biggest when it is in fact not the biggest is called lying. He lied when he claimed he had the biggest inaugural crowd in history when in fact he did not. He lied when he said he would replace Obamacare with something terrific. He continues to lie about anything and everything. This is what Trump is all about, and if you can't see it from a million miles away, I mean I don't really know how to help you.
Hyperbole is not the same as lying. That's why we have a different word for it. By definition, hyperbole is not meant to be taken literally.
I judge Trump's presidency by what he does. Not what latest gaff the press bloviates about, not what words he uses, not what he said on a bus 20 years ago.
I also judged Obama on what he did - throwing trillions at jobs that weren't shovel ready, and disappeared down rat holes. Sending guns to drug dealers - fast and furious. Accenting give-aways and regulations over balanced trade and competitive economies. Engendering corruption at DOJ and IRS. Signing the worst deal ever with Iran, and saying it wasn't a treaty to circumvent congressional approval. Ignoring the gathering storm that was North Korea. Encouraging racial division through foolishly jumping the gun on high profile discrimination cases that turned out to be non cases. Left Iraq to burn. And of course the wildly costly and poorly executed ACA.
I don't care about Obama's smoking habit, his mom jeans or his college records, although his lack of transparency there is not good.
Obama did keep the economy from crumbling further, and he wore the presidency well, except when he bowed to foreign leaders. He spoke with Harvard clarity and polish, never crudely. (At least not that we learned about) He took the shot at bin Laden.
Trump didn't lie about changing health care, he had a congress that couldn't move the ball down the field. He exclaimed about the large crowd obviously without counting every individual person. However the crowd I saw on inauguration day looked like this:
and the press touted the size of the inauguration crowd like this: (Time magazine and NY Times)
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Why don't we see any white expanse of empty space in the first photo? I can see distinct squares of people, not the small clusters in the second photo. The second photo was taken far earlier before everyone was there, and widely used to discredit Trump's popularity. And here you are spouting that Trump lied. Who am I going to believe, Time Magazine, or my own lyin eyes?
This same fact distortion has gone on repeatedly. Which doesn't make Trump a saint. As I said, judge him on what he does. Just make sure you find out what he does, not what someone with an agenda tells you he does on Facebook or CNN.
In short I will take bad hair, crude language and effective leadership to restore the economy, strong borders and balanced trade over a GQ, votes "present", socialist leaning, hesitant TPP globalist.