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Here is a thread about Donald Trump getting hilariously lost in his own lying. 1/
This is what Trump told radio host Mike Gallagher last week: 2/ 
So Trump starts with a lie: that Rasmussen had his approval rating at 46% or 47% that day. He was actually at 41% that day. 3/
Then Trump adds a second lie: that 47%, an approval rating he does not have, is an approval rating that makes re-election guaranteed. 4/
He is not content with that. He must boast about his superiority to Obama. And this is where he loses control of his own nonsense. 5/
He says...Obama left office with an approval rating lower than his own. "46%." This is a third lie. 6/
In fact, Obama left with a much higher approval rating than Trump's imaginary 47%: Obama had 62% final approval in Rasmussen. 7/
But anyway, Trump is stuck - he said Obama's approval was almost identical to his own! And he adds, scrambling, "So he was very popular." 8/
But oh no. Trump has gone wrong. He has now called Barack Obama "very popular." He must correct this. 9/
So he adds, in the mocking tone of a middle schooler: "If you call that popular." 10/
OK wait: he had just said 46% or 47% is his own awesome rating. Now he is mocking the idea that that is a good rating. Because Obama. 11/
In sum: Trump went from bragging about his fake 47% to mocking a fake Obama 46% that is 5 points higher than his own actual rating, 41%. 12/
This concludes today's episode of One Paragraph Of Donald Trump Talking. 13/13
The thread seems to have been broken here - continues:
