When a man or woman’s life is built on lies, one’s first response to any question or situation is surely to be another lie. Everything in Trump’s life is a lie. His accomplishments are nil, and he has proven that fact over the last two and one-half years to the people of the world.

If you’re not the President of the United States and you tell a lie, in the long run it will be more harmful to you than anyone else. However, in Trump’s situation as our nation’s illegitimate president, when he lies, it can harm millions of people.

Why did Trump lie about receiving phone calls from China claiming that they were desperate to end his Trade War? A real president would have told the members of the G7 that he would call China and attempt to restart trade negotiations with the second largest economy, and that tariffs were a bad idea. But that’s not the egomaniac Donald John Trump.

“I have not heard of this situation regarding the two calls that the U.S. mentioned in the weekend,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said at press conference on Tuesday. He had denied on Monday that the calls had taken place.

“Regretfully, the U.S. has further increased the tax rate on China’s exports to the U.S. This extreme pressure is purely harmful to both sides and not constructive at all,” Geng said, according to a CNBC translation.

I always return to the fact that Trump is the result of voters who refuse to vote intelligently. America has the least-informed people in the developed world. If millions of Americans had made even a slight effort to know Trump’s history, and admit that he is without morals and intelligence, we would have the most qualified candidate in history living in the White House, not Donald Trump.

His many failures in business and his penchant to spend money as quickly as possible were red flags everyone should have noticed; but not the members of Trump’s cult.

Bullying China has failed, and America’s consumers are beginning to experience the effect of Trump’s folly. I agree with the economists who claim that a recession is inevitable. Trump’s fiscal policies of trickle-down economics, ill-advised tariffs, and foolhardy spending which has added to the deficit are Trump’s failures and Trump’s alone. He owns his own failures but instead of declaring another personal bankruptcy, he is harming 320 million Americans.

Tell everyone, “the truth lives here.”

Op-ed by James Turnage

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