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We're not talking about the philosophical elements of politics for the most part. There are plenty of parts of government policy where there is an objective truth and one side (or even both on occasion) are trying to manipulate the narrative away from that.

To use a non-US example: Boris Johnson claiming that he is going to deliver 50000 more nurses in the NHS. Except that figure includes some 19k nurses who are already employed in the NHS.

Back to Trump: Great, but we also won the election!




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