US President Donald Trump addresses the nation from the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on December 17, 2025. Picture: Doug Mills / Pool / AFP We are in the depths of the Post Truth Era. Although he is not the only propagator of disinformation, US President Donald Trump is leading the charge into a new world order where facts no longer count.
After the strike against Venezuela, Trump told the world: “We are now in control of that country.” Perhaps you’d like to tell the country’s new acting president, Delcy Rodriguez, that… because she clearly hasn’t got the memo. How are you going to control a country if you do not physically have a presence on the ground? You can’t continue to send stealth fighters and Delta Force in every night.
Attacking is one thing; holding and occupying in the wake of that is another thing entirely. Trump rarely lets facts gets in the way of his determination to be the Ruler of All Creation. He told Americans that tariffs on imported goods would save them money.
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Yeah, right. He told them inflation was down. In a recently televised address by him, analysts recorded 50 instances of falsehoods uttered by him in just 18 minutes.
Such comment is water off Trump’s back… because he knows that many of his followers, at home and abroad, don’t bother fact-checking him. That religious fervour is not much different than Catholics accepting, as a fact, that no pope can ever be wrong, thanks to the doctrine of Papal Infallibility. Sadly, that blind acceptance of anything which supports your world view has spread to our country – accelerated by the access to rabbit holes opened up by the internet during the Covid pandemic.
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