As Trump Spreads A Fog Of Falsehoods, His Fans Believe Them And Make Excuses For Him

[Demovictory9]

Just don’t bother telling that to the lady who wore the New England Patriots socks at the very front of the line to get into Hertz Arena on the outskirts of Fort Myers. Presented with a short list of Trump’s most frequent falsehoods, she countered with a homemade placard with a photo showing Louis Farrakhan with former Democratic President Barack Obama and demanded to know why the media wasn’t covering that.

She added that she was not interested in whether or how many times Trump might lie that evening. “I don’t care if he sprouts a third dick up there,” she said.

(She declined to give her name or to elaborate on her views of the president’s anatomy.)

Her response, though, was typical of fans so committed to Trump that they take time off from work and spend hours in the rain or under a blazing sun to listen to his speeches. And it highlights the other half of the president’s destruction of the truth: As Trump has passed through the looking glass into a make-pretend world of invented facts, legions of his fans have happily followed him.

Jennifer Petito, who drove across the state from Melbourne to see Trump, was similarly dismissive of proof that Trump’s claims are false.

“I don’t believe that,” she said, joining in with the verbal assault on HuffPost for daring to challenge Trump’s version of reality. “I don’t believe he would lie like that.”

Tom Nichols, a professor at the Naval War College and the author of the recent book, “The Death of Expertise,” said the Trump supporters’ response does not surprise him in the least.

“There are a lot of scientific explanations for it, but most of them boil down to ‘shooting the messenger.’ Deep down, they know that these things are false. They don’t care,” Nichols said. “What they object to is the sense of inferiority created when someone tells them that the things they know to be false are actually false.”

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-lies-supporters-midterm-elections_us_5bdf78dde4b04367a87dacf5

[MrScorpio]

1. I think that we've just hit peak "If Trump eats a baby" with his cult

If anyone sees Trump carrying a steak knife and fork to any future “baby kissing” photo ops, those babies are definitely in danger.

[EarlG]

2. "I don't care if he sprouts a third dick up there"

She thinks Trump has two dicks?

[SeattleVet]

3. Well...

I understand that if you gave him Viagra, he would just get a little taller.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

4. Well, they can stop feeling inferior any time they want to.

When you hear the facts and change your mind accordingly, there is no reason to feel inferior. Admitting to a mistake and correcting yourself does not make you inferior. What makes these people inferior is that they will never admit to being wrong and refuse to correct themselves. A person incapable of changing for the better is an inferior person.