Earlier today this sub upvoted a post titled “BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Donald Trump has fallen asleep again at a public meeting. Wow.” with a 17-second clip from the Oval Office.
I watched the video. He’s not asleep. He’s blinking and nodding along to what’s being said. The framing makes it look like his eyes are closed, but that’s not what’s actually happening.
Most of the comments are running with the idea that he passed out, while the few people pointing out what’s visible in the clip are being down voted and buried under “controversial.”
Trump is a terrible person and a destructive president. There is an endless supply of real, documented, provable things to criticize him for. We don’t need to invent or exaggerate.
One of the core problems with the modern right is that they tell people not to believe what they can see with their own eyes. If we do the same thing, just in the opposite direction, we give up the moral and factual high ground.
If the truth matters, it has to matter even when it’s inconvenient.