Created by and for the Chinese
Clinton: Donald Trump says climate change is a hoax invented by the Chinese…
Trump: <interrupting> I NEVER SAID THAT
Oh rilly? Jim provided the screenshot:
The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.
11/6/12 1:15 PM
He said it.
Trump lies like a rug.
I caught that one in the brief portion of the debate I saw.
This wasn’t the only one. I figured, after a while, that each time he said ‘wrong’, anyone fact checking could just have stopped working and called it, right there. As that meant it was right.
It isn’t even that he lies. He does it so badly. He lies like a four year old still holding the cookie he denies having.
… or, to borrow an old line especially applicable here:
You can always work out when Trump is lying. He has a tell. His lips move.
Or his fingers. (His tiny, tiny fingers.)
I do wonder if he actually has any idea what’s being Tweeted on his account. Maybe he and Milo use the same internship program. That’s not an excuse, mind you; outsourcing your ‘real’ Twitter account and not actually seeing what gets put out under your name takes lack of accountability to a new level. But it could be part of the reason he literally doesn’t seem to know what he’s said.
Very charitable of you. Yes, this could be true. But he could also be lying. People have pointed him to those tweets; if he doesn’t know by now that he said that, he’s ignoring reality. But then, he’s pretty good at that, isn’t he?
iknklast: I’m not sure it’s charitable–honestly, it just speaks to yet a greater inability on his part to handle the job of governance (since conveying your expectations to your subordinates, and keeping up to date on their activity, is pretty much the only way that government can actually work).
Considering how often Trump denies things he also says with his own vocal chords/glottis and sundry articulatory bits clearly involved (unless those same evil people who apparently rigged his mike are now _also_ creating fake videos of his saying this stuff… presumably at the A/V editing suites in their black helicopters), in the event it becomes convenient, I find the explanation that he also just denies his own tweets somehow more economical.
It might be possible to nail down a little tighter, in this case, at least, tho’. There was a funny thing a few months back, tho’, in which someone noticed most of the office hour tweets were on iPhones and iPads and more during office hours (suspected to be staff), and tended to be somewhat less unhinged, and the really off-the-wall red-eye hour stuff tended to be on an Android, generally suspected to be him. And this _did_ seem to bear up under some inspection, since (see http://varianceexplained.org/r/trump-tweets/). There’s also been speculation since staff would rather he give _up_ that device, stop stewing, and just go to sleep already, as the stuff that tended to get him into trouble was mostly in that latter category. Don’t see in this particular tweet specifically mentioned, tho, so can’t really nail down which it is (unless I feel like writing some code for this, dunno… I usually prefer to write code that doesn’t get Trump cooties all over my tools), beyond saying: it’s stupid enough I’d like to _think_ it’s not staff, but geez, then, I look at some of his staff.
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