{"id":4838,"date":"2026-08-16T13:07:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T13:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=4838"},"modified":"2026-08-16T13:07:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T13:07:17","slug":"the-dark-truth-behind-trumps-treacherous-new-fabrications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=4838","title":{"rendered":"The dark truth behind Trump’s treacherous new fabrications"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Trump claimed this past week that his job approval ratings are \u201cfabulous\u201d \u2014 they\u2019re \u201cabove 60%.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He also asserted that the United States is enjoying \u201cthe greatest economy we\u2019ve ever had.\u201d <\/p>\n

And that the U.S. has \u201ctotal control\u201d over the Strait of Hormuz. \u201cI THINK WE WILL KEEP IT,\u201d he wrote on his Truth Social platform. <\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s braggadocio doesn\u2019t just mask his failures. His statements wildly contradict the calamities he\u2019s created for America and the world. <\/p>\n

To be sure, since he first entered American politics, we\u2019ve been shocked and outraged by his lack of morality, scruple, or shame. It\u2019s been difficult to conceive of such a person because we\u2019ve always been taught to distinguish right from wrong and to do the right thing. Yet Trump has no conception of right and wrong. He isn\u2019t unethical. He\u2019s non-ethical<\/em>. He isn\u2019t immoral. He\u2019s amoral.<\/em><\/p>\n

But his latest fabrications are so contrary to the realities of his monumental failures \u2014 his losing war with Iran, the near-collapsing U.S. economy, and his underwater approval ratings \u2014 that they\u2019re not merely non-ethical or amoral. How can they be explained? <\/p>\n

One possibility is his conman brain still firmly believes the public will go along with whatever he says and thinks he can manufacture success even when he\u2019s going down the toilet. <\/p>\n

But this can\u2019t explain the extreme dissonance; he reads the same polls everyone else reads, and he knows the public isn\u2019t buying. <\/p>\n

Another possibility is that the sycophants surrounding him are telling him he\u2019s wildly successful and don\u2019t want to inform him of the depths of his failures for fear of his reaction. <\/p>\n

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Yet he constantly watches television, and even the networks he favors \u2014 such as Fox News \u2014 have lately been broadcasting his cataclysmic failures. <\/p>\n

So what\u2019s really going on? How can his assessments be so utterly unhinged from the enormity of his defeats?<\/p>\n

The only possible explanation is that he\u2019s finally lost his grasp on reality. He\u2019s dangerously delusional. Trump is losing his mind. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard for most of us to take in the full import of this. Even those of us who detest him find it difficult to accept the seriousness of his dementia because we think of him as loathsome rather than oblivious. <\/p>\n

We\u2019ve spent so many years seething that no one has held him accountable for all the awful things he\u2019s done that we\u2019re disoriented by the possibility he\u2019s now unaware<\/em>. We don\u2019t want to let him off the moral hook by reason of insanity. Yet what moral compass do we use to judge a president who is wildly and dangerously delusional? <\/p>\n

This has become the wrong question. The problem is no longer Trump\u2019s lack of ethics or his amorality. The current challenge is how to survive under a madman. <\/p>\n

If he is no longer responsible for what he says or does, we should move beyond shock and outrage to outright fear. He could blow the world up. We must call on our elected representatives to remove him from office via the 25th Amendment as soon as possible, by reason of insanity. <\/p>\n

What do you think?<\/p>\n

Robert Reich is a professor of public policy at Berkeley and former secretary of labor. His writings can be found at <\/em>https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/<\/em><\/p>\n

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