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Hail Trump, the King of Lies

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For those of you who enjoy math word problems, here is one that even a back-bench cable news pundit could solve: If a president weighs 340 pounds, and it takes one Ozempic pill to shed exactly one pound of pure, unadulterated deception, how much would he weigh after taking one pill a day for 340 days?

It’s not a trick question. He would weigh zero pounds. Because when it comes to actual human substance, Donald Trump is little more than a thin, hyper-sensitive orange membrane stuffed head-to-toe with lies—a theoretical human being containing zero measurable, verified truth.

To be fair to the…

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