I was watching my local news tonight in my deep red state and they were talking about Trump’s press conference. They called Trump out on one of his lies. They showed him stating that he received more electoral college votes than anyone had since Reagan.

This is such a blatantly false lie that it is jaw dropping. Let’s look at the facts.

This table shows the totals of the electoral college votes of the winners since Reagan:

1988 George H.W. Bush 426

1992 Bill Clinton 370

1996 Bill Clinton 379

2000 G.W. Bush 271

2004 G.W. Bush 286

2008 Obama 365

2012 Obama 332

2016 Trump 304

As you can see there have been eight elections since Reagan won his landslide in 1984. There were seven elections in between Reagan in 1984 and Trump in 2016. In five of these seven elections the winner earned more electoral college votes than Trump did in 2016, and yet Trump has the audacity to claim that he got more than anyone since Reagan. Actually three different men received more electoral college votes since Reagan than Trump did: G.H.W. Bush, Clinton and Obama. This is an unbelievably blatant and easily proven lie and yet Trump tells it like he doesn’t give a damn that he is lying.

Now this may not seem like such a big deal, simply lying about the electoral college, but it goes to show just how dishonest Trump really is.

It is amazing just how easily and casually he told this lie. He stated it like he knew what he was talking about. Is he stupid enough to actually believe what he said is actually true? Or was he intentionally lying? I believe he was intentionally lying because anyone who pays any attention to politics at all would know this statement is untrue.

This just goes to show how untrustworthy and careless he is. If he so casually lies about this than what else will he lie about? He obviously has no integrity and can’t be believed about anything. He has no conscience at all about the lies he tells. This goes to show that the man simply has no credibility at all. We can't trust what he says about anything.

He also has the nerve to complain about the press. What a joke. The press he hates so much gave the man hundreds of millions of dollars of free advertising during the campaign all the while doing everything they could to destroy Hillary. Even “liberal" MSNBC gave him constant coverage of his rallies. The press built up Trump all the while ignoring the real issues and talking about nothing but Hillary's emails. Trump should be thanking the press for handing him the keys to the White House, not berating them.

On the positive side, maybe he will piss off the press enough with all his criticism of them that they will begin to turn against him and his administration.