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When Trump stretches the truth, it hurts the earth
He is driving the oil and plastic economy when countries are leaving them behind to save the environment.
Truth is the victim when you are speaking to your chosen audience, your mass base that elected you to power three years ago. They will lap it up for they have already made up their minds. Then this is election season and Trump has a head-start over his Democratic rivals who are cannibalising each other through debates before a survivor makes it out alive bearing political scars to take on Trump. There are no serious contenders in the Republican Party who will fight him over issues, or more importantly, in defence of the truth. The Grand Old Party now bears Trump's stamp and is reimagining itself under the tutelage of the current president. The party of Ronald Reagan is now in Trump's shadow and has been subsumed by his excesses.
Trump's trysts with falsehood and his sparring with the truth has pushed more important issues of the day to the backburner. He is driving the oil and plastic economy when countries are leaving them behind to save the environment. He claims climate change is a hoax as he courts oil companies. His job figures are off target when he claims 600,000 jobs have been created (only 500,000 have been created since he took over the presidency according to US labour department figures). But what takes the cake is when he defends Shell's investment in plastics and claims American plastic is not polluting the ocean. "It's plastics that's floating over in the ocean and the various oceans from other places," he says glibly which he expects us to believe without a sliver of doubt. That's stretching the truth like elastic. When will it snap, is the question.
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