Audacity

Vox published a good piece yesterday (link here) with the title "Trump claims the media misrepresented his coronavirus cure comments. Video proves otherwise." The secondary title is "The president is now routinely lying about things we saw with our own eyes and that are on tape."

The bottom line is this: rather than admit he misspoke about something, he will just blatantly lie and claim he didn't say something, when video proves that he did. That's because Trump is incapable of admitting he made a mistake.

To add insult to injury, his senior staff will dance around the issue and try to fault the media for reporting about his lying.

I've been reading about Winston Churchill, a deeply flawed man who served as British Prime Minister during most of World War II. Whenever he spoke to the public about the war and what they faced, he strove to tell the truth, no matter how difficult it might be. For that, he became widely loved.

The difference, of course, was that Churchill was a true leader whereas Trump has no leadership skills whatsoever. He's just a corrupt conman with a big mouth who can't stop talking and lying about himself.