Trump fired up ye olde Twitter machine on Friday morning to make a transparently ridiculous excuse for why he keeps contradicting his own spokespeople, saying that it’s just not fair to expect them to be accurate because he’s a “very active president with lots of things happening.”





As a very active President with lots of things happening, it is not possible for my surrogates to stand at podium with perfect accuracy!…. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 12, 2017

…Maybe the best thing to do would be to cancel all future "press briefings" and hand out written responses for the sake of accuracy??? — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 12, 2017

Why would written statements be any more accurate than verbal ones? The problem here isn’t that there are “lots of things happening” (as opposed to any other president?), it’s that Trump keeps setting fires that his staff has to put out by blurting out every damn fool thought that pops into his head. His spokespeople then have to invent excuses and rationalizations to explain those things away, which Trump then contradicts the next time he decides to tweet or do an interview.

No one expects 100% accuracy, but there’s a huge gulf between that and sending out multiple representatives to say one thing for a day or two, then you yourself saying the exact opposite and proving them to be lying. And it’s all your fault, not theirs. If you didn’t lie so much and didn’t say so many stupid things that have to be defended, they wouldn’t be put in that position.