Donald Trump has been lying all his life — on just about every subject under the sun. And as we all know, he kept doing it in the White House. The Washington Post counted his lies and came up with more than 30,000 of them (about 21 a day). He lies like he breathes.
But one of his most famous lies started up years ago, when he first began to claim that Barack Obama had not been born in the US. Trump gave the "birther" theory so much oxygen that in 2011, President Obama released his long-form birth certificate in response. That same year, Obama mocked Trump, who was in the audience, at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. (The story kind of got lost in the next day's announcement that the US had killed Osama bin Laden.)
Since Trump's fluky ascendance to the Presidency himself, people have suggested that being so publicly humiliated by a Black man at the 2011 WHCD was what finally drove him to run. Who knows? Getting a definitive answer would be tough, since Trump always lies.
Well, tomorrow, the President whose citizenship Trump questioned will turn 62. He's building his library and foundation and enjoying his status as a well-loved former POTUS, best-selling author, Nobel laureate, and respected world leader.
And what was Benedict Donald doing today? Getting arrested and arraigned in federal court for The Big Lie (and for conspiracy against the United States). It was satisfying and fun — until you think about all the damage Trump has done to the country. We cats HISS.
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