As Karoline Leavitt prepares to step down from her role as Donald Trump’s fifth White House press secretary, a brief review of her tenure, and that of her predecessors, makes clear that the most fabulist president in US history prizes one quality above all else in the women and men who speak for him: a willingness to tell outrageous lies.
Leavitt started her tenure by telling a wild falsehood at her very first news conference, when she claimed that the Biden administration had planned to use $50m in taxpayer dollars to send condoms to Gaza. Later the same day, the Guardian reported that the claim was directly contradicted by USAID records.
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Yuccagnocchiyaki@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 14d
It will be Scott Jennings. None of them are good liars because every good lie is based in truth and MAGA is against facts, science, medicine, literacy, government, etc so nothing say even makes sense with any part of reality.
artyom@piefed.social · 2 pts · 14d
The point of being a good liar is that you can sell things that aren't true.
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 14d
Which she did expertly
stoy@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 14d
That is a very good point!
meco03211@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 14d
But they aren't good liars. If I tell you I'm the smartest person alive and no one believes me, I'm not a good liar. If I remain in a position where you have to listen to me tell you I'm the smartest person alive over and over, I'm still not a good liar.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 14d
what's that rule/law? if the headline asks a question, the answer is 'No'?
sns@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 14d
Betteridge's law of headlines IIRC.
yep: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 14d
Probably not as good as her but enough for their hand picked press room.
Abyssian@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 14d
That's a really hard bar to set. They've told some massive lies about the worst imaginable things with completely straight faces.
sns@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 14d
None will compare to Sara Huckleberry Sandwich.
Saffire@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 14d
Spicer? The Mooch? Both easily comparable to Huckleberry Sanders.
osanna@lemmy.vg · 2 pts · 14d
They’re repubes. So yes. They will be a liar
stoy@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 14d
That was not the question posed, it asked if they will be a better liar, than the first five press secretaries was.
desmosthenes@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 14d
she’ll be blonde blue eyed that’s for sure
Ghyste@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 14d
No.