Dissembler-in-Chief

To general amazement, President Donald J. Trump addressed a joint session of Congress in a normal tone of voice last night. To no one’s surprise, however, he continued to base his dubious policies on alternative facts.

More:

“Fact-checking President Trump’s address to Congress,” Glenn Kessler and Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post

“When you fact-check Donald Trump’s latest speech, you find that even the technically true parts aren’t really true,” Holly Baxter, The Independent

“Fact Check: Trump’s First Address to Congress,” New York Times

“Fact-checking Donald Trump’s first presidential address to Congress,” Alan Yuhas, The Guardian

“Fact-checkers had a field day with President Trump’s address to Congress,” Peter Weber, The Week

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The Honorable Joe Wilson of South Carolina

Addison Graves Wilson Sr., aka Joe Wilson, is the U.S. Congressman representing the 2nd District of South Carolina and the finest traditions of Southern Courtesy. As you may have heard, he interrupted a speech by the President of the United States during a Joint Session of Congress to call the Chief Executive a liar.

PolitiFact indicates that it was actually Mr. Wilson who uttered the untruth. Apparently the Congressman did not base his stridently erroneous opinion on the legislation in question, but put his faith in an anonymous chain email instead.

 

Any resemblance of Mr. Wilson’s likeness to Big Boy, a registered trademark of Big Boy Restaurants International LLC, is purely coincidental. Okay, we lie,  but we use it under the satire provisions of the Fair Use Doctrine.

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