“. . . Leave those kids alone!

All in all,

It’s just another,

Brick in the wall.” 

Pink Floyd, “The Wall,”  Darkside of the Moon

There’s never been a president like Donald J. Trump. His whole persona was based on lying.

His family name was Drumph, and they were from Germany. Fred Trump, the father of Donald, didn’t like the sound of that, so he invented the fiction that they were from Sweden. Donald knew this was a lie, but yet he put the Swedish heritage thing in his book. It’s odd.

Donald’s prominence came to the fore with his perseveration about Obama not being an American. Remember, he sent a squad of lawyers to Honolulu to investigate the hospital records. He kept up this lie long after it was clear it was not true.

The Washington Post has kept a record of the thousands of lies he’s told in his almost two years as president. Biggest inauguration. Rampant voter fraud which kept him from having won the popular vote. He said he never knew anything about paying off the porn star Stormy Daniels, or the playboy model Karen McDougal. There are substantial rumors that he paid for McDougal’s abortion, about the time that he was keeping company with her – but I can’t say that happened, because I don’t know it to be true.  But I’m hearing a lot about it. People are saying. . .

So I imagine Trump’s advisors have been cautioning him to pay more attention to truthfulness. So maybe that explains why he got so worked up when a call was routed to him as NORAD was doing the tracking Santa Claus thing, traditional this time of year.  He talked to a 7-year-old boy. He asked the child if he still believes in Santa. Our president then told the boy it was “marginal” for a 7-year-old to still believe. Can any of you imagine doing this to a child?

Is this a newfound interest in truthfulness? We can hope.