When all evidence points to something else, perhaps it’s time to stop clinging to a fabricated alternate reality and accept things as they are. Incredulously, playing out in living color, President Donald Trump has been creating and existing in a fantasy world he’s populating with the gullible, the ignorant and the obsequious.
Concurrently, another, more local personality seems to have taken a chapter or two from the Trump playbook.
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