Sunday, June 17, 2018

10 Ways To Tell When Donald Trump Is Lying – Getting to Know the President


10 Ways To Tell When Donald Trump Is Lying – Getting to Know the President

It’s easy to detect when “The Lyin’ King” is letting slip another full-fledged falsehood. Here’s how.

#1. When he starts a sentence with, “I can tell you this,” the words that immediately follow will be untrue.

#2. When he finishes a sentence with “everyone knows that,” you can be sure that the statement preceding it was a lie.

#3. Frequent sips of water during White House meetings, public speeches, press briefings, and official announcements is a sure sign that Mr. Trump’s lying mouth has gone dry and he needs to wet his whistle before delivering the whopper.

#4. One of the president’s most flagrant “tells” is capitalization in his tweets. He generally capitalizes words or groups of words that are lies. One of his favorites lately is “NO COLLUSION!” Which means there was definitely collusion.

#5. Anything Donald Trump says about Russia or Vladimir Putin is pure deception, invention, and falsification. If you hear the word “Russia” linked to any other words, you were just lied to.

#6. The president, like any sociopath, is incapable of love, kindness, or caring. So when he says, “I love (fill in the blank),” don’t believe it.

#7. If Mr. Trump flashes his famous “Triangle of Satan” hand gesture, peaking his fingertips in a downward prayer position, he is cooking up a fantastic fable. Watch for it!

#8. The president is fond of labeling things “fake news.” When he is asked a question about some questionable aspect of his behavior, and he labels it “fake news,” he has just lied to cover up the truth.

#9. He seems to nearly always be lying any time he begins a sentence with any of the following words, “Belieeve me.”  honestly,”  “Of course,  or “Trust me.

#10. Basically, if Donald Trump’s mouth is open and there is sound coming out, he’s lying.

Trump does not seem to care whether he can defend his lies as truthful.  He has an exceptionally high ratio of self-serving lies. Most liars tell a large number of self-serving lies to kind lies.  For Trump, these are mostly split between self-serving and cruel lies, and often in combination.




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