Podcast: "I Feel Snitty"
Episode 19: "Once a Trump, Always a Liar"
Premiere Date: 11/25/19
Length: 10:42 (1,562 words)
Link: https://ifeelsnitty.podbean.com/e/once-a-trump-always-a-liar/
Transcript:
Welcome to I Feel Snitty, episode 19, entitled, “Once a Trump, Always a Liar.” I’m you’re host, Craig Rozniecki.
All throughout his campaign, Trump tried to establish himself as the non-PC candidate, the guy who told it like it was. I can’t tell you how many times I heard supporters of his tell me, “He just tells it like it is. No one else does.” For the record, telling it like you want it to be is not telling it like it is. If you’re a flat-earther and someone says, “Well, yeah, the earth is flat,” you can’t just come out and say, “He’s telling it like it is.” No, he’s actually not. Facts prove otherwise. He’s telling it like it’s not, but telling it like the way you want to believe it. That’s it. Period.
Donald Trump is the most anti-truth president in US history. This isn’t just hyperbolic rhetoric on my part. Unlike when Trump makes claims, I actually have evidence to back up mine. As reported by the Washington Post on October 9th of this year, Trump had spouted 13,435 lies in his first 993 days in office - an average of almost 22 per day. According to fact-checking guru Politifact, here’s Donald Trump’s scorecard:
Out of 738 graded claims, 34 have been ruled as “True;” 77 have been deemed “Mostly True;” 102 have been reported as “Half True/Half False;” 156 have been viewed as “Mostly False;” 260 have been graded “False;” and 109 have reached the criteria for “Pants on Fire” status. So out of 738 graded claims, just 111 are ruled as “True” or “Mostly True,” or 15.0%, whereas 525 have been reported as “Pants on Fire,” “False,” or “Mostly False,” or 71.1%, for a net of -56.1%. On the contrary, for President Obama, out of 600 graded claims, 288 have been ruled as “True” or “Mostly True,” or 48.0%, and 151 have been viewed as “Pants on Fire,” “False,” or “Mostly False,” or 25.2%, for a net of +22.8%. The difference between these two presidents on the honesty scale is an astounding 78.9%.
Enough with the numbers, though. Let’s get into details; let’s get into specifics. Here are my ten favorite Trump lies to this point in his presidency. By favorite, I mean the most utterly ridiculous lies, so ridiculous I can’t help but laugh when hearing them. I’ll be sure to add my two cents after reading off each lie.
10) “There has never been, ever, before, an administration that’s been so open and transparent.”
Two words: Tax returns. As a matter of fact, I’ll add a few more words. Refusal to testify under oath. Prohibiting several others from doing similarly. Lying over 70% of the time isn’t helping his argument any either. He’s been the most transparent president in history when it comes to bullshit and his raccoon-esque spray tan, but nothing else.
9) “I finished the controversy about where President Barack Obama was born.”
Um, there was no controversy. His birth certificate had already been released. Not only that, but his tax returns were released as well. By the way, where’s Trump’s birth certificate? The more he talks, the more I believe he’s not from this planet. I think Obama needs to return the favor and make it his life mission to finish the controversy about where Drumpf was born.
8) “Democrats want to give undocumented immigrants cars.”
Yeah, cars, houses, suits, emus named Limu, they can all be yours, undocumented immigrants, if you vote for Democrats! Oh, wait, that’s not allowed. Nevermind…
7) “People went out in their boats to watch Hurricane Harvey.”
This reminds me of the time when I was on my roller-blades, watching a tornado a couple feet away in Nebraska. Good times.
6) “The ice caps were going to melt. They were going to be gone by now, but now they’re setting records, so okay, they’re at a record level.”
What records are we talking about here? The home run record? A record level? Record level high? Low? With this comment, Donald Trump has reached a record level in terms of vagueness and ambiguity, and that’s a record high level, in case you were wondering…
5) “Don’t believe those phony numbers when you hear 4.9 and 5 percent unemployment. The number’s probably 28, 29, as high as 35. In fact, I even heard recently 42 percent.”
Trump of course said this during Obama’s tenure. As soon as he took the reigns, however, those phony numbers suddenly became real. It’s like an Apple plant The Donald just took credit for. He said, “Yeah, I built this.” No, it was built 6 years before, under then President Obama.
4) “The number of illegal immigrants could be 3 million. It could be 30 million.”
Now there’s a range. Imagine if a meteorologist announced a forecast like this. “A cold front will be moving through the area today. That rain you see right now will be turning to snow when this cold front comes in. In terms of snowfall, expect anywhere from 3” to 30”.” Yeah, that’d be helpful. Hopefully that isn’t his day job.
3) “If you buy, you know, a bag of cereal, if you do anything, you have a voter ID. The only thing you don’t is if you’re a voter of the United States.”
That depends on the cereal. If you’re talking about Frosted Flakes or Kix, then no, I don’t need an ID. Lucky Charms, though? Damn right, I do!
2) “My father, Fred Trump, was born in a very wonderful place in Germany.”
Yeah, he was born in New York, dumbass. Close, though…
1) (drumroll) “The noise from windmills causes cancer.”
As Modern Family’s Phil Dunphy would say, “WTF? Why the face?”
Now, if you’ve been paying close attention to Trump’s lies, you’ll notice he seems to go through a fairly consistent process. Here’s how it goes, step by step:
Step 1) He tells or tweets the lie.
Step 2) After receiving backlash, a spokesperson attempts to offer a ridiculous interpretation.
Step 3) Trump says he was joking.
Step 4) Trump, or an associate, attempts to redirect blame via false equivalence.
Step 5) Trump lies again.
In case you’re confused, I’ll provide an example.
Step 1) “In the movie ‘The Campaign,’ the part where Will Ferrell punches that baby, that was based on a true story where Joe Biden punched a baby.”
Step 2) “What the President meant by that was Joe Biden’s policy ideas would destroy the dreams of our children.”
Step 3) “I was only kidding. I’m such a joker. I know jokes; I have the best jokes, believe me. Knock-knock. Who’s there? I don’t know; let me go check. You see? So funny. I’m so funny, folks.”
Step 4) “You know what we should really be focusing on? The disaster that is Obamacare. Crooked Hillary and Benghazi. Those vegan hamberders at Burger King. So bad, so bad, folks. Should be a crime, bigly.”
Step 5) “I turned down the role for Rambo once.”
For my final segment, I’m now going to share a Top Ten List I concocted, where I predict future lies uttered by Donald Trump:
10) “You know the Great Wall of Jina? So great, so great. Yeah, I built that.”
9) “My favorite holiday would have to be Memorial Day, because I’ve go the best memory, believe me. Wait, what? Those imprisoned guys who worked for me? Yeah, I don’t remember them. Don’t think we ever met.”
8) “Trump U. was this close, this close to becoming a Ivy League school. It was going to replace either Dart Mouth, Princetown, or Yell.”
7) “If you don’t launder clothes, you can’t launder money, and I don’t launder clothes, folks.”
6) “Think you know music? Think you’re some kind of fancy musick-ian? Guess where they got the word ‘trumpet?’ From my name, Trump. You can’t spell ‘Trump’ without ‘trumpet,’ folks. Can’t do it. It can’t be done.”
5) “Okay, so that whole bone-spurs thing wasn’t the real reason I couldn’t go off to war. I mean, it was true and everything, but the real reason I couldn’t go to war was because I once had a fever of 98.7. It was so bad, I, for a split-second, believed in global warming. True story. True story, folks.”
4) “Not a lot of people know this, but I once bowled a 450. It was incredible. Everybody was watching, cheering, not believing what they were seeing. I’ve never had so much fun sticking four fingers into something before. Just fantastic! Fantastic!”
3) “I work harder than anybody I know. You ever tweet from a golf cart after a nap? I didn’t think so!”
2) “Whenever I tell this story, at least one person seems to think I’m making it up, like what I’m about to say isn’t possible, but it is. It so is. I was Valid Victorian of my class, not once, not twice, but three times. Three times. Can you believe that? No one else can say that. Fourth grade- the best three years of my life!”
1) (drumroll) “My sons, Eric and Don, Jr.? Yeah, never heard of them.”
That’s it for today’s episode. I’ll see you again next week. Until then, check me out on PodBean, Twitter, Amazon, and Blogpsot. This has been I Feel Snitty with Craig Rozniecki. Take care.
Episode 19: "Once a Trump, Always a Liar"
Premiere Date: 11/25/19
Length: 10:42 (1,562 words)
Link: https://ifeelsnitty.podbean.com/e/once-a-trump-always-a-liar/
Transcript:
Welcome to I Feel Snitty, episode 19, entitled, “Once a Trump, Always a Liar.” I’m you’re host, Craig Rozniecki.
All throughout his campaign, Trump tried to establish himself as the non-PC candidate, the guy who told it like it was. I can’t tell you how many times I heard supporters of his tell me, “He just tells it like it is. No one else does.” For the record, telling it like you want it to be is not telling it like it is. If you’re a flat-earther and someone says, “Well, yeah, the earth is flat,” you can’t just come out and say, “He’s telling it like it is.” No, he’s actually not. Facts prove otherwise. He’s telling it like it’s not, but telling it like the way you want to believe it. That’s it. Period.
Donald Trump is the most anti-truth president in US history. This isn’t just hyperbolic rhetoric on my part. Unlike when Trump makes claims, I actually have evidence to back up mine. As reported by the Washington Post on October 9th of this year, Trump had spouted 13,435 lies in his first 993 days in office - an average of almost 22 per day. According to fact-checking guru Politifact, here’s Donald Trump’s scorecard:
Out of 738 graded claims, 34 have been ruled as “True;” 77 have been deemed “Mostly True;” 102 have been reported as “Half True/Half False;” 156 have been viewed as “Mostly False;” 260 have been graded “False;” and 109 have reached the criteria for “Pants on Fire” status. So out of 738 graded claims, just 111 are ruled as “True” or “Mostly True,” or 15.0%, whereas 525 have been reported as “Pants on Fire,” “False,” or “Mostly False,” or 71.1%, for a net of -56.1%. On the contrary, for President Obama, out of 600 graded claims, 288 have been ruled as “True” or “Mostly True,” or 48.0%, and 151 have been viewed as “Pants on Fire,” “False,” or “Mostly False,” or 25.2%, for a net of +22.8%. The difference between these two presidents on the honesty scale is an astounding 78.9%.
Enough with the numbers, though. Let’s get into details; let’s get into specifics. Here are my ten favorite Trump lies to this point in his presidency. By favorite, I mean the most utterly ridiculous lies, so ridiculous I can’t help but laugh when hearing them. I’ll be sure to add my two cents after reading off each lie.
10) “There has never been, ever, before, an administration that’s been so open and transparent.”
Two words: Tax returns. As a matter of fact, I’ll add a few more words. Refusal to testify under oath. Prohibiting several others from doing similarly. Lying over 70% of the time isn’t helping his argument any either. He’s been the most transparent president in history when it comes to bullshit and his raccoon-esque spray tan, but nothing else.
9) “I finished the controversy about where President Barack Obama was born.”
Um, there was no controversy. His birth certificate had already been released. Not only that, but his tax returns were released as well. By the way, where’s Trump’s birth certificate? The more he talks, the more I believe he’s not from this planet. I think Obama needs to return the favor and make it his life mission to finish the controversy about where Drumpf was born.
8) “Democrats want to give undocumented immigrants cars.”
Yeah, cars, houses, suits, emus named Limu, they can all be yours, undocumented immigrants, if you vote for Democrats! Oh, wait, that’s not allowed. Nevermind…
7) “People went out in their boats to watch Hurricane Harvey.”
This reminds me of the time when I was on my roller-blades, watching a tornado a couple feet away in Nebraska. Good times.
6) “The ice caps were going to melt. They were going to be gone by now, but now they’re setting records, so okay, they’re at a record level.”
What records are we talking about here? The home run record? A record level? Record level high? Low? With this comment, Donald Trump has reached a record level in terms of vagueness and ambiguity, and that’s a record high level, in case you were wondering…
5) “Don’t believe those phony numbers when you hear 4.9 and 5 percent unemployment. The number’s probably 28, 29, as high as 35. In fact, I even heard recently 42 percent.”
Trump of course said this during Obama’s tenure. As soon as he took the reigns, however, those phony numbers suddenly became real. It’s like an Apple plant The Donald just took credit for. He said, “Yeah, I built this.” No, it was built 6 years before, under then President Obama.
4) “The number of illegal immigrants could be 3 million. It could be 30 million.”
Now there’s a range. Imagine if a meteorologist announced a forecast like this. “A cold front will be moving through the area today. That rain you see right now will be turning to snow when this cold front comes in. In terms of snowfall, expect anywhere from 3” to 30”.” Yeah, that’d be helpful. Hopefully that isn’t his day job.
3) “If you buy, you know, a bag of cereal, if you do anything, you have a voter ID. The only thing you don’t is if you’re a voter of the United States.”
That depends on the cereal. If you’re talking about Frosted Flakes or Kix, then no, I don’t need an ID. Lucky Charms, though? Damn right, I do!
2) “My father, Fred Trump, was born in a very wonderful place in Germany.”
Yeah, he was born in New York, dumbass. Close, though…
1) (drumroll) “The noise from windmills causes cancer.”
As Modern Family’s Phil Dunphy would say, “WTF? Why the face?”
Now, if you’ve been paying close attention to Trump’s lies, you’ll notice he seems to go through a fairly consistent process. Here’s how it goes, step by step:
Step 1) He tells or tweets the lie.
Step 2) After receiving backlash, a spokesperson attempts to offer a ridiculous interpretation.
Step 3) Trump says he was joking.
Step 4) Trump, or an associate, attempts to redirect blame via false equivalence.
Step 5) Trump lies again.
In case you’re confused, I’ll provide an example.
Step 1) “In the movie ‘The Campaign,’ the part where Will Ferrell punches that baby, that was based on a true story where Joe Biden punched a baby.”
Step 2) “What the President meant by that was Joe Biden’s policy ideas would destroy the dreams of our children.”
Step 3) “I was only kidding. I’m such a joker. I know jokes; I have the best jokes, believe me. Knock-knock. Who’s there? I don’t know; let me go check. You see? So funny. I’m so funny, folks.”
Step 4) “You know what we should really be focusing on? The disaster that is Obamacare. Crooked Hillary and Benghazi. Those vegan hamberders at Burger King. So bad, so bad, folks. Should be a crime, bigly.”
Step 5) “I turned down the role for Rambo once.”
For my final segment, I’m now going to share a Top Ten List I concocted, where I predict future lies uttered by Donald Trump:
10) “You know the Great Wall of Jina? So great, so great. Yeah, I built that.”
9) “My favorite holiday would have to be Memorial Day, because I’ve go the best memory, believe me. Wait, what? Those imprisoned guys who worked for me? Yeah, I don’t remember them. Don’t think we ever met.”
8) “Trump U. was this close, this close to becoming a Ivy League school. It was going to replace either Dart Mouth, Princetown, or Yell.”
7) “If you don’t launder clothes, you can’t launder money, and I don’t launder clothes, folks.”
6) “Think you know music? Think you’re some kind of fancy musick-ian? Guess where they got the word ‘trumpet?’ From my name, Trump. You can’t spell ‘Trump’ without ‘trumpet,’ folks. Can’t do it. It can’t be done.”
5) “Okay, so that whole bone-spurs thing wasn’t the real reason I couldn’t go off to war. I mean, it was true and everything, but the real reason I couldn’t go to war was because I once had a fever of 98.7. It was so bad, I, for a split-second, believed in global warming. True story. True story, folks.”
4) “Not a lot of people know this, but I once bowled a 450. It was incredible. Everybody was watching, cheering, not believing what they were seeing. I’ve never had so much fun sticking four fingers into something before. Just fantastic! Fantastic!”
3) “I work harder than anybody I know. You ever tweet from a golf cart after a nap? I didn’t think so!”
2) “Whenever I tell this story, at least one person seems to think I’m making it up, like what I’m about to say isn’t possible, but it is. It so is. I was Valid Victorian of my class, not once, not twice, but three times. Three times. Can you believe that? No one else can say that. Fourth grade- the best three years of my life!”
1) (drumroll) “My sons, Eric and Don, Jr.? Yeah, never heard of them.”
That’s it for today’s episode. I’ll see you again next week. Until then, check me out on PodBean, Twitter, Amazon, and Blogpsot. This has been I Feel Snitty with Craig Rozniecki. Take care.
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