Trump’s contempt for truth and his war against science are serious problems.

In mid-August 2018, Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani said on public TV, “truth isn’t truth.”

Fact-checkers have identified more than 20,000 lies and serious misrepresentations that Trump has told during his presidential campaign and 4-year term.

On several occasions Trump publicly denied having said things that he had said in public — on video — in front of witnesses and the general public.

Trump has wiped scientific facts off from federal government websites in order to protect his lies about the climate and other matters from being contradicted by published scientific information.

He has silenced — and fired — people who disagreed with him.

The list goes on and on.  In many ways Trump has conducted a VIGOROUS WAR AGAINST SCIENCE — AND AGAINST TRUTH:

 

See this from November 2020:  https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/article/disappearing-data/index.html?ncid=newsltushpmgpolitics#introduction

 

Trump’s incompetence and mismanagement made the U.S. the very worst nation in the world for the COVID-19 pandemic, and it continued escalating into November and December 2020.  But just one week before the November 2020 election, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy issued a public statement that Trump has defeated the pandemic.  https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/28/1990280/-White-House-declares-that-Trump-has-defeated-the-pandemic-please-ignore-the-bodies?detail=emaildkre

 

This is PROFOUND: Trump’s war against cause-and-effect, science, reason allows his denialism and lies to prevail.  His attitude is, I ALONE CAN DECLARE WHAT’S TRUE.  See this:  https://www.nationofchange.org/2020/11/03/trumps-most-sinister-ultimate-scam-warring-against-causation-the-bedrock-of-reality/

 

Trump called Dr. Fauci and other scientists “idiots.”  See this:  https://www.motherjones.com/2020-elections/2020/10/trump-sticks-by-his-losing-message-fauci-and-the-scientists-are-idiots/?utm_source=mj-newsletters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-newsletter-10-19-2020

 

Here are more examples from Trump’s ongoing war against science:  https://grist.org/politics/election-day-is-nearing-but-theres-no-end-in-sight-to-trumps-attacks-on-science/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=daily

 

Into the summer of 2020, this article had identified “150 Attacks on Science and Counting: Trump Administration’s Anti-Science Actions Hurt People and Communities Nationwide.”  See this:  https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/08/03/150-attacks-science-and-counting-trump-administrations-anti-science-actions-hurt?cd-origin=rss&utm_term=AO&utm_campaign=Daily%20Newsletter&utm_content=email&utm_source=Daily%20Newsletter&utm_medium=Email

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Since the late 1960s Glen Anderson has devoted his life to working as a volunteer for peace, nonviolence, social justice, and progressive political issues. He has worked through many existing organizations and started several. Over the years he has worked especially for such wide-ranging goals as making peace with Vietnam, eliminating nuclear weapons, converting from a military economy to a peacetime economy, abolishing the death penalty, promoting nonviolence at all levels throughout society, and helping people organize and strategize for grassroots movements to solve many kinds of problems. He writes, speaks, and conducts training workshops on a wide variety of topics. Since 1987 he has produced and hosted a one-hour cable TV interview program on many kinds of issues. Since 2017 he has blogged at https://parallaxperspectives.org He lives in Lacey near Olympia WA. You can reach him at (360) 491-9093 glen@parallaxperspectives.org