Trump's Reality Distortion Field

On the Media | Jan 13, 2017

It doesn't take extensive media fact-checks to know that Donald Trump makes false statements freely and often--from claiming he saw thousands of Arabs celebrating 9/11 during his campaign to making up unemployment numbers in his latest press conference.

But according to Ned Resnikoff, senior editor at ThinkProgress, when Donald Trump tells a lie, it's not so much about deceiving his audience or promoting a calculated narrative as it is about destabilizing reality altogether. He talks to Brooke about the way Trump's lies create an alternate version of reality with no internal logic, thus devaluing the very meaning of truth.

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