Tag: John Nolte

Although he is at times just trolling his foes, let’s stipulate that U.S. President Donald Trump stirs up controversies or lashes out in disputes that he should avoid. Sometimes using imprecise language, the bombastic POTUS is also using his platform to communicate to the electorate over the heads of the hostile news media.

The polarizing, abrasive president and former real estate mogul and reality TV star is a salesman and not a detail guy to be sure, which causes the beltway echo chamber to brand him a liar,  but as FNC’s Greg Gutfeld has noted, he should be judged on his deeds  — such as a booming economy among other accomplishments — rather than words.

In September 2016, journalist Selena Zito famously wrote in The Atlantic in reference to the skeptical blue-check media’s fact-checking Trump’s claims (something that Obama was never subjected to), ”the press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally.”

Name me one Trump lie (and make sure it's actually a lie & not an exaggeration) that even approaches Obama's likes to pass Obamacare, or that the Benghazi attack was over a video, or that al-Qaeda was on the run, or that there was not a smidgeon of scandal in his administration https://t.co/9B2sBbbTiJ read more