When will the nation get tired of Trump always lying to them? I am not saying that Trump is just wrong sometimes because there is a huge difference between being wrong and lying. Trump claimed the price of eggs had gone down 94 percent since he took office. When Trump took office, eggs were almost 5 dollars a dozen. If eggs were down 94 percent, that would convert to under 40 cents per dozen. He had also claimed the price of groceries had come down when, in fact, in March, they had risen at a rate that we haven’t seen since 2022, and the tariffs had not kicked in yet. Last Thursday, Trump claimed gas hit under $2.00 a gallon in a couple of states. No state has an average below $2.70 a gallon. What I will never understand is why he says things that are so easily proven false. Is it that he thinks the American people are so stupid that we will believe anything he says, or is it that too many Americans hate the same things he does, so they don’t care he lies?

Trump says he is currently in trade talks with China. China has denied that any talks are going on. Trump has kept stating that he had talked numerous times with the Chinese leader Xi Jinping, though he hasn’t given any details of when these conversations have taken place or what has been discussed. Guo Jiakun, the spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, stated in a news conference, “China and the U. S. have not held consultations or negotiations on the issue of tariffs. The United States should not confuse the public”. In this case, with Trump's track record, who would you believe? I have a hard time believing Trump with anything that he says. Trump has also said that he has 200 trade agreements with 200 corporations and countries, yet he doesn’t offer any facts. Whenever there are any agreements reached in Washington, there is always a ceremony so the administration can get as much positive exposure as it can. There has been nothing. There haven’t been any signing ceremonies or even any press releases. He hasn’t stood on the White House lawn with any foreign dignitary touting any agreement. That tells me that what Trump is saying is just a lie to manipulate the people and the financial markets. In the end, of course, both suffer.

I remember all of the lies Trump made to the American public when we were in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. He not only played it down, but he also said that it would go away by spring. Millions worldwide died from COVID, and we had one of the highest death rates in the world. How many more people would have been saved if he had been just honest with the American public? Trump chose the economy over people's lives and wound up crashing both.  His lies cost us both lives and money, so he failed in every way possible. I will never understand how he was given a free pass on that when it caused so much needless death.

When it comes to immigration, I don’t know what to believe. I remember him screaming, “They're eating our dogs. They’re eating our pets.” Now that he is elected, nothing. There is no reference to anyone eating anyone's pets. When he was screaming that, I knew it wasn’t true, but still, many believed because it fed their hatred. I think we see that a lot when Trump speaks. He states that immigrants cause more crime. Of course, he doesn’t supply facts to prove his point. He just says that, and people and the press just run with it. Again, I think Trump knows that his lies just feed people's hate. He called immigrants rapist and criminals but I don’t read that anywhere except when people are quoting him. He quotes no figures at all. Most immigrants have a cleaner criminal record than our president.   He talks about gangs, which I do believe is a problem here in America. He just talks about gangs of Hispanic immigrants and not the homegrown gangs that have existed here for a long time. Deporting Hispanics will not solve the gang problem or the crime problem in this country, and I don’t believe immigrants who come and work in our fields and our trades are gang members. Why is he deporting criminals in the first place? Why are they not being arrested and made to pay for their crimes, and then deported? Talking about gangs is just another excuse to feed the racism and bigotry that have run roughshod through the Republican party.

One of the biggest lies the entire Trump administration has said is that no one is above the law. Our laws are interpreted by our courts and not by the Executive Branch of the government. The Trump administration has been ordered to return a person who was sent to the concentration camp they call a detention center in El Salvador.  That order is the law. To violate that court order is a violation of the law called contempt of court. If it were you or me, we would already be in jail. Why is it different for the Trump administration if no one is above the law? If no one is above the law, then the DOJ would be obeying the order from the courts. If no one is above the law, the DOJ should be arresting anyone who is violating a court order, instead of creating a constitutional crisis, which I believe that we have.

The biggest lie is the one that Trump says that he is a Christian. Of course, that is a lie that much of our nation says. If Trump were such a Christian, he would know that what he is doing is in direct violation of the teachings of Jesus. If America were such a Christian nation, then it would be standing up to what Trump is doing.