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The White House Spin Machine Goes Full Tilt But It’s Squeaky
It’s hard to spin the huge lies and fantasies
Trump increasingly lives in his own fantasyland, a place where everything is great and beautiful. The economy thrives, he will stop wars and win the Nobel Peace prize, our country will be exclusively dominated by white men again, and cities run by Democrats are vicious hellholes.
And all of this is completely untrue. It is the nature of an extreme narcissist that when things aren’t going well it cannot be their fault and the bad news is all fake. Unfortunately despite efforts by his administration to spin these myths, it’s hard to put a good face on this level of incompetence, even if you are a true believer.
No one who watched the absurd summit meeting this past Friday can deny that it was a major failure and Trump once again came away from Putin a true believer again, after making threats of terrible things if the Russian doesn’t come to the negotiating table. And Putin knows Trump will not do anything because he rarely does what he says.
Today, Monday the 18, we are seeing the remarkable spectacle of every leader of major NATO countries arriving all at once in support of Ukraine and Vlodomir Zelenskyy. Not their preventatives, the actual Prime Minister, Presidents and Chancellors of the…
