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(CNN)Fareed Zakaria ripped into President Donald Trump on Friday, accusing him of "bulls**tting" his way to the presidency.
The charge followed Zakaria's infamous attack during the presidential election, when he called then candidate Trump a "bulls**t artist."
"I got into trouble during the campaign saying something about the President which I still think is true," Zakaria told Don Lemon on "CNN Tonight." "I think the President is somewhat indifferent to things that are true or false."
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"He has spent his whole life bulls**tting," Zakaria said. "He has succeeded by bulls**tting. He has gotten the presidency by bulls**tting. It's very hard to tell somebody at that point that bulls**t doesn't work. Because look at the results. He sees something, he doesn't particularly care if it's true or not, he just put it out there."
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Couldn't have said it better myself!
Rhiannon12866
(202,988 posts)Last edited Sun Mar 19, 2017, 05:59 AM - Edit history (2)
That'll certainly go over well with allies, enemies, and what about the American people?? Every time you think it can't get worse...
lpbk2713
(42,696 posts)Trump has been bullshitting for so long now he is at
a point where he doesn't know how to turn it off.
lies
(315 posts)For a WIDE variety of reasons, Americans are extremely susceptible to bullshit.
It's not even as ideological as many would like to believe.
We tend to believe that what perpetuates the bubble we live in... as Americans.
Rhiannon12866
(202,988 posts)Since he contradicts himself more than once in the same sentence, he can't possibly know the difference! He's just used to saying anything it takes to get what he wants. He has no clue what a president does and the extraordinary sensitivity and vast knowledge it takes to do the job - and it never dawns on him to care. He's 70 years old and we know who he is. Why would anyone think he'd suddenly change?
VOX
(22,976 posts)The link below is from February 4, so you'd have to add all the wiretapping bullshit. If he's unable distinguish between actual truth and his whoppers, then the man is in dire need of psychiatric care.
https://www.google.com/amp/www.newsweek.com/trump-difference-truth-lies-552292%3Famp%3D1
CAN TRUMP TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TRUTH AND HIS LIES?
Newsweek
By Kurt Eichenwald
Saturday, February 4, 2017
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Nothing in the headlines these days is more important than this: The President of the United States is divorced from reality, unable to tell the difference between the truth and what he wants to be true. In August, much of the American press finally broke out the word lie to describe many of Trumps statements, but thats not enough. Reporters must now press the president to explain if he believes these statements to be true and why. Plenty of politicians deceive, but one who cannot discern reality from fiction is dangerous.
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No rational person could believe this. That leaves two possibilities: Trump intentionally dispenses falsehoods any smart person knows will be detected as lies, or worse, he cannot discern between reality and what he wishes was true. During his first White House interview, Trump told ABC News that two people were shot in Chicago as former President Barack Obama gave his farewell speech; the Chicago Tribune proved there were no such shootings. Then there are his statements of undeniable falsity, such as when he asked in a tweet on December 12 why no one had brought up the issue of Russian interference in the presidential election until after he won. But he stood on a stage 54 days earlier dismissing the intelligence communitys assessment of the Russian hacking. Was he knowingly lying? Or is Trumps memory so poor that he could not remember a statement he madeor even that a discussion had taken placeabout whether America was under cyberattack by a foreign power? Or, worst of all, did he not know what he said and tweeted was untrue?
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