Trump’s Next “Hellhole”: Chicago. Democrats, Get Ready for a Fight.

It’s been sickening to watch Trump tell lie after lie about the city he lives in most of the time but clearly knows nothing about. Yes, Washington went a week without a homicide since Trump’s National Guard deployment. Good. Great, even. But he talked about that as if it had never happened before. “That’s the first time in anybody’s memory that you haven’t had a murder in a week,” he said.

Well, that’s true—for people whose memories go back only to mid-May. If your memory goes back any further than that—like all the way back to January 1, say—then you might recall that this is the fifth week this year without a homicide. The others include February 25 to March 4, March 5 to March 12 (yep, that was two weeks in a row), April 11 to 18, and May 4 through 11. But the right-wing media repeat Trump’s garbage, and his idiot backers believe it.

Likewise, that toxic nonsense about how nobody ever went out to a restaurant out of sheer terror, but now, his friends tell him they’ve gone out four nights in a row. (Must be nice! For most people, prices are going up.) I don’t doubt that his sycophantic courtiers did that and made sure to tell him about it. In fact, however, restaurant bookings in the District are down since Trump’s police hit town, and dramatically so year-over-year: more than 30 percent. He’s constitutionally incapable of telling the truth about anything.