{"id":348344,"date":"2018-02-15T10:32:57","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T09:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-white-house-vs-working-stiffs\/"},"modified":"2018-02-15T10:32:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T09:32:57","slug":"the-white-house-vs-working-stiffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-white-house-vs-working-stiffs\/","title":{"rendered":"The White House Vs. Working Stiffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\">\n<p>Have you noticed that Donald Trump constantly prefaces his outlandish lies with such phrases as: \u201cTo be honest with you,\u201d \u201cTo tell the truth,\u201d and \u201cBelieve me\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>Why? Because like a snake-oil salesman, he constantly needs to convince himself that he&#8217;s speaking the truth in order to perform his next lie convincingly. The show must go on&#8230; and on.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, he already ranks as the perhaps lyingest president in U.S. history. And that includes Nixon! The <em>Washington Post<\/em>&#8216;s fact checker counted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/fact-checker\/wp\/2018\/01\/10\/president-trump-has-made-more-than-2000-false-or-misleading-claims-over-355-days\/?utm_term=.015276baf6f3\">over 2,000 lies<\/a> in Trump&#8217;s first year alone.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s biggest whopper is that he&#8217;s an honest-to-God \u201cpopulist,\u201d standing up for America\u2019s hard-hit middle class against Wall Street, corporate lobbyists, and moneyed elites.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34671\" style=\"max-width: 598px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-34671\" src=\"http:\/\/otherwords.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-14-at-9.49.03-AM-600x437.png\" alt=\"trump-corporate-sponsors-greed-america-great\" width=\"588\" height=\"428\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Video still from CorporatePresident.org.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>This prevarication has duped many working stiffs into thinking he&#8217;s their champion. The huckster doubled down on this lie in his inaugural address last year, pompously declaring, \u201cThe forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why a new, straight-talking pamphlet by the watchdog group Public Citizen is so important. It exposes the &#8220;people&#8217;s champion&#8221; as a rank fraud who&#8217;s worked from day one to further enrich and empower the corporate elites he had denounced as a candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Public Citizen&#8217;s report documents with concise, easy-to-grasp specifics on how Trump-the-faux-populist has systematically sold out the working families whose votes he cynically swiped, handing our government to a kakistocracy of corporate plutocrats.<\/p>\n<p>The Public Citizen expos\u00e9 is titled \u201cForgetting the Forgotten: 101 Ways Donald Trump Has Betrayed the Middle Class,\u201d and it drives the stake of truth through the heart of his populist pretensions. It&#8217;s available at <a href=\"https:\/\/corporatepresidency.org\/forgotten\/\">CorporatePresidency.org\/forgotten<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/otherwords.org\/white-house-vs-working-stiffs\/\">The White House Vs. Working Stiffs<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/otherwords.org\">OtherWords<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This piece was reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/otherwords.org\/white-house-vs-working-stiffs\/\">Other Words<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you noticed that Donald Trump constantly prefaces his outlandish lies with such phrases as: \u201cTo be honest with you,\u201d \u201cTo tell the truth,\u201d and \u201cBelieve me\u201d? Why? Because like a snake-oil salesman, he constantly needs to convince himself that he&#8217;s speaking the truth in order to perform his next lie convincingly. The show must [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2523,"featured_media":348345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-348344","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2523"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}