“To me, he’s sort of a tragic 77-year-old individual who is totally out of touch with reality, sort of creates his own reality,” said Craig Fuller, who served in the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. That may be changing, according to one Republican strategist who said he thinks his party is waking up to Trump’s alternative fact universe. In today’s fragmented information ecosystem, efforts by journalists to fact-check the president didn’t always reach those who accepted his words as truth. While leading the nation through the pandemic he underplayed the severity of coronavirus while endorsing fake cures. Cruz is now an unapologetic Trump supporter.Īs a president, Trump misled Americans about economic indicators, about a hurricane, about climate change and about his past actions and meetings with foreign leaders.
“If saying the election was rigged doesn’t fall into that category, then what does?”Īs a candidate, Trump made misinformation a major campaign tactic, routinely using falsehoods to demean his rivals, as he did when he bizarrely asserted that Ted Cruz’s father may have played a role in the Kennedy assasination. Jamieson said that before Trump, the assumption was that certain lies - lies that undermine faith in democracy or the courts, for instance - would be disqualifying for a person seeking public office.
We haven’t been in a situation like this,” said Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. As Trump seeks a second term while fighting federal and state charges, the nation faces the prospect of another campaign riddled with falsehoods and misinformation, and the possibility that he could be returned to the White House by an electorate that either believes his falsehoods, or doesn’t care.
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