Silly Lies and Sillier Excuses

It’s one thing to support what Trump is doing. While there’s a huge difference between reducing the federal bureaucracy and doing so competently, in a way that won’t wreak havoc and undermine the good and necessary along with the wasteful, it’s possible that some refuse to grasp the difference. And there’s a huge difference between shifting historic alliances with democracies to siding against them, denigrating them, while lavishing praise upon totalitarians. But hey, this is America and people are allowed to support whatever policies they believe to be better for the nation and themselves, no matter how simplistic and irrational they may be.

But how is it possible that these same people refuse to recognize lies when they smack you in the face?

It was only a week ago that Trump called Zelensky a dictator.

Trump previously called Zelensky a “dictator without elections,” referring to Ukraine’s 2024 presidential election that was not held because of the embattled country’s martial law that has been in effect since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. Monday marked the three-year anniversary of the war.

“He refuses to have Elections, is very low in Ukrainian Polls, and the only thing he was good at was playing Biden ‘like a fiddle.’ A Dictator without Elections, Zelenskyy better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left,” the Republican posted on Truth Social.

And the president, whom the vice president said chose his words very carefully, had even more to say at the time.

Trump also suggested that Ukraine, not Russia, was responsible for starting the war after Zelensky complained that Ukraine was left out of early negotiations between the U.S. and Russia. Trump later conceded that Russia invaded Ukraine.

In the interim, nominees, such as Deputy Secretary of Defense Stephen Feinberg, couldn’t find it in himself to make the same concession.

And this is but one of the obvious lies told, and thereupon vociferously defended by his gnats, over the past week. Others, such as the European Union was formed to “screw the United States,” thus adding to his denigrating our allies while telling a wild whopper, making it overwhelmingly clear that America will no longer be a reliable ally.

Regardless of whether you believe that these are strokes of stable genius, even if they’re such obvious and offensive lies that nobody with even a modicum of factual knowledge would be unaware of how ludicrous Trump’s assertions are, how is it possible that his supporters nonetheless deny that he’s either lying or, well, an ignoramus?

Many Americans support action, even if it’s poorly conceived and likely dangerous. Many people find thinking hard too difficult and likely to cause painful headaches. Nobody likes headaches. But to deny these are lies, and he’s a liar even if you would otherwise be thrilled to shine his shoes, crosses the line from reality into delusion. How did so many MAGA supporters reach the point where they would rather shrug off lies than admit that their savior might not be telling the truth? Why would they rather fabricate absurd excuses for Trump’s lying rather than admit the man is a liar, but he’s their liar?

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7 thoughts on “Silly Lies and Sillier Excuses”

  1. truth

    It’s a cult, simple as that. As long as he is mean to people they don’t like, they’ll defend him no matter what.

    View everything through this lens and it starts to make sense; “he’s mean to the people I don’t like”

  2. Miles

    The problem with being a liar is that everybody knows you’re a liar, so nobody believes anything you say. There are no excuses that make this go away. No one can believe him, and no other nation will trust the United States to honor its obligations with a liar in charge.

  3. phv3773

    It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
    ― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked

    The Republicans are so giddy about their occupation of the White House and their chance to “dismantle the administrative state”, they can’t afford to care about the distruction of our foreign policy and the risk of a really big war starting in Europe.

  4. Bear

    His supporters simply say his lies are for our good. It reminds me of someone in particular in world history. Unfortunately, many someones.

  5. B. McLeod

    It’s the whole alternate reality thing. Like Biden, Trump lives in a parallel universe that is slightly out of phase, and also (apparently) in constant flux. Sometimes, he forgets which side of the dimensional portal he is on, and says something that, to people who only live on this side, seems like a nonsensical distortion.

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