Telling it like it is has nothing to do with the truth in Donald Trump’s world
FOR more than a year, Donald Trump has been a “birther”, promulgating the theory that Barack Obama was not born in the United States of America and, accordingly, is not and should never have been president of the US. But, last week, he saw the light and announced that he accepts Barack Obama was born in America. No evidence proferred for his prior belief. No evidence proffered for his new, completely opposed belief. There ya go. Whatever. Oh, and by the way, the whole birther thing (he claimed) was started by Hillary Clinton in the first place.
Imagine if Micheál Martin, as a potential contender to be taoiseach, were to spend more than a year promulgating the theory that Australia didn’t exist, only to decide, late in the day, that it did. Indubitably, some people would prefer if Australia didn’t exist, but it does, and Micheál Martin, had he espoused such a crazy belief, would long ago have been taken aside by his party and told to go boil his head. In the aftermath of his acknowledgement of the reality of Oz, had he then claimed Enda Kenny started the rumours of its absence, he’d have been disowned and politically buried by his own.
