Trump's Big CON: The Truth Doesn't Matter, Just Feel Good

Says Trump: "I don’t stand by anything. I just– you can take it the way you want."

Read the Washington Post, ‘I don’t stand by anything’: Trump withers under heat from CBS News’s John Dickerson.

Because it's all about making his supporters feel good.

"Trump fans think he is winning because he yells at the press, vilifies cities run by Democrats, denies climate change and demonizes immigrants. He talks and acts like they wish they could — demeaning women, stereotyping minorities, telling off experts. (According to polling, Trump’s voters really are more amenable to racial stereotypes than non-Trump voters.) It does not matter to Trump fans if the executive orders are struck down or are mere window dressing (authorizing an agency to study something it already has the power to study). He makes them feel as if they’re winning, as if they are now more important than the experts with the facts and the courts with the laws on their side. Trump fans, the quintessential Fox News viewers, revel in the know-nothingism of a hero who reflects their anger, grievances, frustration and, yes, prejudice. . .

Saying he’s the most successful president in the first 100 days ever may sound nuts to people who look at what he’s done; it makes perfect sense to the people whom Trump makes feel better. At some point, one wonders when it will dawn on Trump’s fans that they’ve been bamboozled."

Read  the Washington Post, Trump suspends disbelief — on most everything.