Donald Trump’s controversial approach to politics has often come under scrutiny, with his detractors never short of fodder with which to lambast the current POTUS.
One thing that arguably aggravates his critics the most is Trump’s supposed incessant need to embellish (or outright lie) when and where it suits him. And while it’s true that stretching or exaggerating the truth is a tactic Trump appears ready and willing to engage in, there are an increasing amount of people actively calling him out.
Trump, as we well know, has an ability to rile people up quite like no other president in US history. Indeed, he appears to enjoy walking through storms of his own creation (either that, or he’s so blind to criticism that it doesn’t even register), and has never shied away from saying things that others take umbrage over.
While moving to announce a raft of new executive orders yesterday, Monday, August 25, the POTUS happened to describe the city of Maryland, Baltimore as a ‘horrible death bed’ ridden with crime, which readers may recognize as a sentiment similar to ones he’s expressed in the past concerning US cities that are traditionally pro-Democrat.
Trump also claimed that Maryland Governor Wes Moore had labeled him ‘the greatest president’ of his lifetime… something Moore moved to categorically deny with all haste.
“Keep telling yourself that, Mr. President,” Moore wrote on X.
Meanwhile, Carter Elliott IV, a senior communications adviser to Moore, provided a little more depth on the interactions between the governor and the president, stating: “Moore and the president met, but the governor did not say that.”
Moore went on a local radio show, WBAL Radio, to further refute the claims.
“I’m a person who takes my integrity very seriously, and I spent the past six months before that election campaigning as to why I did not think that he should be the next president of the United States,” the governor said.
“So when I say that conversation never happened, that imaginary conversation never happened, I mean that conversation never happened.”
On Monday, Trump took aim at Moore, stating that he doesn’t “have what it takes” to lower crime levels in Maryland.
“Moore is doing a bad job, [Gavin] Newsom is doing a bad job. All of their potential candidates are doing a bad job,” Trump said.
Moore, readers may be aware, has been mentioned as a potential presidential candidate for the Democrats with 2028 in mind. Vice-president JD Vance, meanwhile, appears to be the frontrunner for the Republican nomination.
Trump, of course, has hinted at throwing a spanner in the works of democracy in the past few months, openly toying with the (unconstitutional) concept of running for a third term.
Recently, Trump began selling “Trump 2028” caps, further feuling the fire of speculation he kindled when he said back in March: “A lot of people want me to do it,” adding, “there are methods which you could do it.”
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