{"id":136575,"date":"2018-05-27T00:02:06","date_gmt":"2018-05-27T06:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=136575"},"modified":"2018-05-27T01:11:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-27T07:11:57","slug":"trump-either-baldly-lies-or-doesnt-know-whats-going-on-around-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/27\/trump-either-baldly-lies-or-doesnt-know-whats-going-on-around-him.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump either baldly lies, or doesn&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on around him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or, doubtless, sometimes both.<\/p>\n<p>This week, Trump stormed at the media for running a story about an unnamed White House official suggesting that the Trump\/Kim summit would most likely not happen on June 12th, even if it did get rescheduled. The President angrily tweeted:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Failing <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nytimes<\/a> quotes \u201ca senior White House official,\u201d who doesn\u2019t exist, as saying \u201ceven if the meeting were reinstated, holding it on June 12 would be impossible, given the lack of time and the amount of planning needed.\u201d WRONG AGAIN! Use real people, not phony sources.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1000396430371106817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 26, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;The Failing @nytimes quotes \u201ca senior White House official,\u201d who doesn\u2019t exist, as saying \u201ceven if the meeting were reinstated, holding it on June 12 would be impossible, given the lack of time and the amount of planning needed.\u201d WRONG AGAIN! Use real people, not phony sources.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Except, as it turns out, there <em>was<\/em> an actual White House official who actually <em>did<\/em> brief a dozen reporters (not just the NYT), but, as is often the case, while speaking on background and thus not to be named.<\/p>\n<p>Trump either knew this and lied in his tweet, or didn&#8217;t know it and decided to attribute it to Fake News and Failing Media and all that folderol.<\/p>\n<p>Something to remember next time Trump attributes <i>anything<\/i> to those causes. He&#8217;s most likely either lying or clueless.<\/p>\n<p>(See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsandguts.com\/trump-address-naval-academy-grads-laden-enough-lies-sink-ship\/\">his commencement speech<\/a> at the Naval Academy)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2018\/05\/trump-claims-aide-who-briefed-press-corps-doesnt-exist.html?utm_source=undefined&amp;utm_medium=undefined&amp;utm_campaign=feed-part\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/JCNZwZdmMfp5zs1VVQAzlbVVODzDdwa0YUfeks0QMpVAbCWcqpGBWchDpwppqUeHf8wGWDBzi9GDyecVHBkbYgiZOoheWPlkvA-qRI9gDlCMPgq9uCfIcisVgmGTB6zhxthGmr_bP_7bxIy5w6CoKacjIY4=w506-h910\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2018\/05\/trump-claims-aide-who-briefed-press-corps-doesnt-exist.html?utm_source=undefined&amp;utm_medium=undefined&amp;utm_campaign=feed-part\">Trump Claims Aide Who Briefed Press Corps Doesn\u2019t Exist<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/fEMybTgA141\">Original Post<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or, doubtless, sometimes both. This week, Trump stormed at the media for running a story about an unnamed White House official suggesting that the Trump\/Kim summit would most likely not happen on June 12th, even if it did get rescheduled. The President angrily tweeted: The Failing @nytimes quotes \u201ca senior White House official,\u201d who doesn\u2019t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/27\/trump-either-baldly-lies-or-doesnt-know-whats-going-on-around-him.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trump either baldly lies, or doesn&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on around him&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,358,1071],"tags":[1077],"class_list":["post-136575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-poor-citizenship","category-trump","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/trump-microphones.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132594,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/20\/in-case-youre-still-wondering-what-trump-thinks-about-climate-change.html","url_meta":{"origin":136575,"position":0},"title":"In case you&#039;re still wondering what Trump thinks about climate change","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 20-Jan-17 12:17pm","format":false,"excerpt":"As of Noon today, all reference to climate change and global warming vanished from the official White House web pages. 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