Trump gave an interview to ABC this week, and you better believe I’m going to latch onto the tiniest fragment of it, because it is the embodiment why he is the absolute worst. “I always try to be truthful,” he said. He expanded very little on this statement, and it is a thing that literally made me shout at my computer screen. Because it’s the ultimate lie. It is the lie at the very essence of Donald Trump. Because Donald Trump is a liar. He lies regularly and blatantly. And it’s important to point out that I’m not just talking about things where he could be credibly accused of being dumb or just not knowing all the facts. Donald Trump isn’t just untruthful. HE LIES. To lie requires an intent to deceive, and he lies are the cornerstone of his presidency. He lied when he said he intended to “Drain the swamp”. We know this because he not only didn’t kick out the people in Washington that he claimed were the problem, he brought more in. The exact same, rich, entitled, classist Wall Street scumbags that he claimed he had no interest in serving. He lies about his intentions, the intentions of his opponents, the consequences of his policies, how the world views him and his actions. And the frustrating thing isn’t even that he does it, it’s that there are still an uncomfortable number of people that still believe him. History will not look kindly back at this point in history. It will be asked how someone like him rose to power, how anyone could have believed his lies, and there won’t be a good answer.