Blog stage 3

On July 20 David Leonhardt and Stuart A. Thompson posted an opinion page on the New York Times titled Trump’s Lies. From the title alone it can already be inferred what this entire article will be about, but more specifically it goes into listing every single lie that Trump has said up to this point in tie during his presidency. The concern here is obvious, lies will influence most of the public who don’t really have time to fact check anything and take everything as the truth. Going through the list of lies myself, most don’t really seem too grievous in terms of the impact they can have, most being slight changes to show Trump’s administration in a better light. The problem that they also address with these small lies is that they build up and pick away at Trump’s credibility with the public.

The reason this article was written was to convince those that still believe Trump that his words are not to be taken at face value and to even stir further mistrust in the president. These both align perfectly with the two authors agendas as David Leonhardt and Stuart A. Thompson both have a more liberal background. As such some of these lies may just be a simple slip of the tongue or lapse of memory that just happened to be in front of the media, however, they still make a good point that even if some were just lapses in memory, the total amount off lies and half-truths are entirely unacceptable from our own president.