Politifact’s annual Lie of the Year stands out, impact-wise,
The premier prevarication is usually both shocking and unwise.
But in 2025 the lies came so fast and furious,
And were so widely hurtful and broadly injurious,
Politfact just gave up and called 2025 The Year of the Lies.
The Independent: Trump holds national address in rally style speech blaming Biden for the state of his nation. Over the course of the more than 10 minutes of shouted boasts he delivered, the president also offered up a series of demonstrably false claims and baseless assertions about his economic record.
The Atlantic: The president of the United States just barged into America’s living rooms like an angry, confused grandfather to tell us all that we are ungrateful whelps.
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Donald Trump has added plaques to his “Presidential Walk of Fame,”
He penned them himself, with two to accommodate his self-acclaim.
Caroline Leavitt calls him a “student of history,”
Though where he get his “facts” remains a mystery;
They’re just the rantings of a weak old man playing the same old blame game.
Vanity Fair is a magazine that concerns itself mainly with styles,
Its pages abound with celebs sporting collagen lips and botox smiles.
But once in a while a Vanity Fair interviewer
Gets candid quotes from one who should know better,
And this time the bean-spiller was Trump’s Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.
There’s a failed state park in New York named for Donald J. Trump.
He donated the land after his golf course plan hit a slump.
It’s just trash, asbestos, brambles and no amenities,
Though he took a $100 million tax cut with a grifter’s ease,
May we suggest a new name: the Donald J. Trump State Dump.
Trump watches the news like an evil, demented Elf on the Shelf,
He hates to share the news cycle because of his declining mental health.
When Rob and Michele Reiner were murdered in their home,
Trump blamed the family tragedy on Trump Derangement Syndrome,
Because the Narcissist-in-Chief just has to make EVERYTHING about himself.
Despite the Affordability Crisis, American households will be going all out this year, spending almost $2 billion on real Christmas trees in 2024, according to an analysis by finder.com.
Here are the stats:
Donald Trump fancies himself a bit of a thespian,
But of the reality-show type — not a Shakespearian.
Though as he totters across the political stage,
His mind befuddled by vengeance and rage,
He seems less “The Apprentice’ and ever more Mad King Learian.
In his “To the Contrary” Substack Charlie Sykes summed up Friday, Dec. 12, the worst day of Donald Trump’s second term:
“The House rejected one of his executive orders; another grand jury refused to indict Letitia James; a judge freed Kilmar Abrego Garcia and called out the Administration’s bullshit; Kristi Noem faceplanted in congressional testimony; his concept of a health care plan crashed in the Senate; and his poll numbers continued to crater.”
“But all of this was merely prologue to Trump’s humiliation by the sort of Republicans we are thought were utterly extinct.”
“Despite a vicious pressure campaign, the Republican-dominated Indiana Senate overwhelmingly rejected Trump’s demand that they gerrymander the state’s congressional map to benefit the GOP.”
“What happened yesterday — an outburst of Republican courage — was as rare as a sighting of Bigfoot, Lindsey Graham’s spine, or natural breasts at Mar-a-Lago.”
It’s been a tough few days for Donald Trump’s “Rig the Midterms” plans.
He thought he held the levers of redistricting in his tiny hands.
But despite Trump’s pressure campaign,
All he can do now is complain
About a state legislature full of intractable Indiana Republicans.
Trump and the Iranians seem to be in different realities,
Though they share a callousness toward the war’s casualties.
Is Trump insane
Or just insanely vain?
And how can we extract ourselves from his “Quagmire of the Vanities?”
