Trump's bombastic words fail to meet the truth test

All right, already! Let's stop considering the bombastic words that Donald Trump spews as comedic or funny or stating what the American people think; he is a dead-set, serious, tyrannical fascist.

Trump continues to announce the "big lie." The bigger the lie, the more likely the people will believe it. Ironically, Trump recently accused Hillary Clinton of lying all the time. According to Politifact, 74 out of 75 political statements made by Trump in 2015 were false. He was charged with "The Pants on Fire Lie of the Year" by the same organization.

Trump's campaign against minorities includes these statements: Mexicans are guilty of destroying the U.S. economy; Muslims endanger all Americans. Trump never admits he was wrong or made a mistake. His four major bankruptcies were not failures on his part; they were shrewd moves in a declining economy.

Even when confronted by conservative supporters at Fox News, Trump refuses to accept responsibility for his obvious lies. Anyone who disagrees with him is a dupe of the Democrats or a left-wing rabble rouser.

For every difficult, hard-to-solve problem, Trump has a simple, easy-to-understand wrong answer. His rhetorical skills consist of outrageous statements with no basis in fact. Thousands and thousands of Muslims danced in the streets of Jersey City when the Twin Towers came down; over 300,000 veterans have died waiting for treatment in VA hospitals; the number of illegal aliens in the U.S. is 30 million, could be 34 million; Obama wants to take in 250,000 refugees from Syria; etc., etc.

Whenever he is asked for documentation to back up his lies, Trump responds with dismissive statements like "Everybody knows that!"

Ed Siemaszko

Perico Island

This story was originally published January 7, 2016 at 12:00 AM with the headline "Trump's bombastic words fail to meet the truth test ."