Trump's unreality
Journalists are in the business of covering reality. But we keep getting sucked into covering President Trump's unreality because of his position and power.
Boastful exaggerations are par for the course when it comes to Trump. Outlandish ideas are common too. Unreality is something different.
Unreality is Trump claiming that Elon Musk found "$100 million on condoms to Hamas." His press secretary Karoline Leavitt had previously claimed the amount was $50 million. Fact-checkers spent all day on that and couldn't find any evidence. Then Trump went and doubled the amount.
Unreality is Trump suggesting that the government's diversity, equity and inclusion efforts were to blame for the deaths of 67 people in last week's midair collision.
Unreality is Trump insisting CBS "defrauded the public" and committed "election interference" by trimming an answer from Kamala Harris on a "60 Minutes" broadcast. This morning he called it "the greatest broadcasting scandal in history."
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