Trump will keep lying until we believe him
By: Rex Huppke
Columnist
USA Today
..... A not from the Trump administration on America's red-hot, Number 1 super-awesome economy:
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Even though President Donald Trump has ushered in an incredible, never-before-seen Golden Age of economic prosperity, some Americans continue to patriotically not believe everything we're tilling them about the economy's awesomeness.
..... Due to that, the administration feels some tough love is necessary had hereby declares: Lying about the economy will continue until moral improves.
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MAGA purists know that believing everything Trump says is sacrosanct. There is no greater way to demonstrate a love of country than accepting Trumpian lies as facts. Now it's time for the rest of America to develop that same kind of unwavering fact-averse patriotism, so until polls show stronger support of Trump's economy, we will increase our lying at least sevenfold.
..... Vice President JD Vance demonstrated this tough new policy December 16 [2025] by standing in front of actual functioning human beings and saying he would give the current economy a grade "A+++."
..... He said this on the same day the federal jobs report showed the November [2025] unemployment rate rose to 4.6%, its highest level since September 2021.
..... He said this despite a recent Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll found 47% of Americans are "not very" or "Not at all" confident they could find a good job if they needed to.
..... He said this despite a recent report from the Institute for Supply Management that found, "Economic activity in the manufacturing sector contracted in November [2025] for the ninth consecutive month."
..... He said this as electricity prices are at record high and natural gas prices have spiked.
..... The ability to lie - or as we call it, "to MAGA-truth" - in the face of such overwhelming proof to the contrary is exactly what makes Vice President Vance a true patriot. And the unwillingness of certain Americans to not believe everything Vance and others in our administration say is what makes them ninnies.
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Do you know what happens to ninnies? They get more MAGA-truthing. We in the Trump administration are preprepared to relentlessly MAGA-truth all the doubling ninnies out their until they agree with that everything is amazing.
..... Our great President Trump will, of course, lead us in the necessary lying, as he did recently when he called affordability a hoax and said, "Prices are coming down tremendously form the highest prices in the history of our country."
..... Is that true? It is if you engage in radical-leftist behaviors like "looking a the price of things at the grocery store" or {noticing Christmas presents are more expensive."
..... You need to be reasonable and listen to us when we tell you that what you're seeing with your eyes is not real. Those larger numbers coming out of your checking account are not "bad." They are, in fact, "the best."
..... As Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on December 7, [2025] "The American people don't know how good they have it."
..... See, you ungrateful wretches This is why we have to MAGA-truth to you so much. You just don't know how good you have it.
..... In October, [2025] we said, "Under President Donald J. Trump's bold leadership, America;s manufacturing sector is surging forward with unprecedented momentum."
..... The new jobs report showed 5,000 manufacturing jobs were lost in November, [2025] and since April, [2025] the manufacturing sector has lost 67,000 jobs.
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Our October [2025] statement sounds like the exact opposite of what's happening, and that's EXACTLY why we have to keep lying to you. If we didn't, how could we ever get you to believe what we're saying?
..... Sure, we could try to run the government competently and actually address high prices and maybe make sure millions of Americans don't see a sudden spike in their health care costs. But that would be really hard, and it would leave us very little time for lying, which is something we truly enjoy.
..... So please stop being negative nincompoops and just accept the disingenuous things we're telling you. The economy is magnificent, all your costs are down, inflation has never been lower, the job market is fabulous, affordability is a hoax, and you've never been happier.
..... Let's get that moral up, folks. Because trust us, you'' run out of disbelief long before we run out of lies.
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