Trump's worst tweet

How can America have elected a president who is a liar?

My blog, as I have said several times, is named for Judge Learned Hand. He said in his Spirit of Liberty speech that freedom means never being too sure you are right. Freedom is being able to change, to do new things based on new information, to think rationally about the world and one's own circumstances and use information to make things better for yourself and those around you.

Trump takes no information into consideration when making decision. The George Washington University School of Public Health did an independent survey of deaths in Puerto Rico after and hurricane  found that the 3000 people died as a direct result of the hurricane. Here is Trump's tweet:
Donald J. Trump
✔@realDonaldTrump 
3000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico. When I left the Island, AFTER the storm had hit, they had anywhere from 6 to 18 deaths. As time went by it did not go up by much. Then, a long time later, they started to report really large numbers, like 3000...
5:37 AM - Sep 13, 2018
New information means nothing to him. And to make it worse he blames this academic institution's opinion on a conspiracy:

Donald J. Trump
✔@realDonaldTrump 
.....This was done by the Democrats in order to make me look as bad as possible when I was successfully raising Billions of Dollars to help rebuild Puerto Rico. If a person died for any reason, like old age, just add them onto the list. Bad politics. I love Puerto Rico!
5:49 AM - Sep 13, 2018
America has a conspiracy theorist for president. Sadly he is dragging his supporters into his paranoid fantasy and encouraging a whole tribe of gun-toting apprentices to stand up to and oppose what turns out to be a conspiracy of truth. We will have more folks going into pizza parlors with AR-15-like weapons trying to uncover the truth. Where they need to go is the White House armed only with questions. Edgar Welch went into the pizza shop to uncover the truth. His motives were not to kill but to do what Learned Hand suggested: to gather information and make changes based on that information. We could use more people like Edgar Welch and fewer like Trump.




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