Trump and the age of bullshit: the roots of a knowledge crisis

When a bullshitter speaks, it is with indifference or even hostility to the whole concept that there might be a real world out there which can and will contradict their statements.

U.S. President Donald Trump has made false public statements incessantly since (and before) he took office. Photograph by Michael Vadon, courtesy of Flickr

Opinion

BY Matt McManus

August 27, 2018

By now the claim that Donald Trump is a liar might seem like old news. Well-known fact-checker Politifact ranked 68 per cent of Trump’s statements as veering between “mostly false” to “pants on fire,” a.k.a blatant untruths. This might make it seem like Trump is just any other politician ...

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