The Sunday shows saw the continuation of Republican efforts to delegitimize both 1.) all non-conservative political opponents and 2.) facts themselves. Team Trump's budget director took to the airwaves to claim the Obama administration was faking the nation's unemployment rate.

"What you should really look at is the number of jobs created," Mulvaney said on "State of the Union." "We've thought for a long time, I did, that the Obama administration was manipulating the numbers, in terms of the number of people in the workforce, to make the unemployment rate -- that percentage rate -- look smaller than it actually was."

We seem to be long past the point where blandly accusing parts of or the entirety of American government to be conspiring to make Republicans look bad is considered either unusual or deranged, but let's at least note that this claim by Mulvaney is a recitation of his conspiracy-addled boss' identical claims. Trump asserted during the campaign that the "real" unemployment rate was more than 40 percent of the population, a number he arrived at because Some Guy Said So, and a number that includes school-age children as "unemployed" because why the hell aren't they out working the coal mines like good little boys and girls?

And then Trump sat down in the Oval Office and declared that the precise same unemployment statistics he declared to be a horrible fraud the previous quarter were, despite barely changing at all, now True because he said so. So yes, the man is pathological. More to the point, he has surrounded himself only with people willing to parrot his own conspiracy theories, which is why Mick Mulvaney is now on your television opining on things as a budget director as opposed opining on things as Republican House member, or trying to cheat you out of your spare change by feigning incompetence from behind the register of a local fast food joint.

Indeed, he made the rounds on Sunday to lie about plenty of other things as well.