After more than a decade of Trump on the national political stage, America has watched Donald Trump build his own realities. Trump was born rich, so he has never had to live in a world constrained by reality.
Trump has spent his entire life making his money by building and selling a false reality around himself. In a previous era, Trump would have been called a flim-flam man.
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When Donald Trump took over a political party, his false realities became the dogma of one of the two major political parties. Trump was amplified, and his unwavering commitment to living in his own universe attracted others who mistook delusion for strength and vision.
Trump isn’t a gifted politician. He isn’t a great communicator, personally liked, respected, or a master of the levers of government.
The president’s superpower has been in the ability to build false worlds, but Trump has run into a reality that has neutralized his one power.
Here is what Trump had to say about inflation and gas prices when returning to the White House:
And a lot of good things are happening, including for our farmers. Thank you all very much. One thing I have to say, with the exception of oil, which is lower than the Biden administration, and we no longer have to worry about nuclear weapons with Iran ’cause they’re wiped out. But with the exception of oil, everything is going down.
We have it going down. We inherited the worst inflation in the history of our country, and it’s going really down. 401(k)s are at their all-time high. The stock markets are at their all-time high, and our country is doing really well.
Everything that Trump said was false, stretched, or cherry-picked, but there are growing signs that even some of his most devoted supporters have lost faith.