The Trumpian Doublethink

The president says America is fighting a plague. His son tells Fox that it's all a media hoax. Which is it?
by Charles Sykes
May 19, 2020 5:27 am



“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” —George Orwell, 1984

So we are back to Orwell again.

On Monday, Donald Trump’s campaign took a break from his relentless attack on reality to announce the launch of a new “investigative website” that is called, without even a hint of irony, TheTruthOverFacts.com.

We shit you not.

And yet this wasn’t the craziest Trump moment of the day. Because in the middle of his latest briefing, the president claimed that he was currently taking hydroxychloroquine—an unproven drug that might actually kill vulnerable patients—and had been taking it for some time. Here’s the tl;dr on HCQ:



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This clusterfork came two days after one of the president’s grown-ass sons, Eric, claimed that the novel coronavirus which has killed, officially, more than 90,000 Americans will “magically vanish” after the November 3 election, freeing the country to reopen.

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