Trump Admits That If He Doesn't Like A Poll He Just Says Its Fake

During his CPAC speech, Donald Trump admitted that he likes to say that polls are fake if they don't have the results that he would like to see. This isn't surprising as we've watched him do this for years, but what is surprising is that he had this "mask off" moment where he feels comfortable enough with his base to admit to them that he just enjoys lying to make himself feel better. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.

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At last weekends CPAC convention, we finally got an answer to the question of what Donald Trump's supporters would do if he ever just admitted to them that he lied about everything. And the answer is they would do absolutely nothing except applaud him. During his speech at CPAC Donald Trump went on a tear about a CPAC straw poll that at the time had not yet been released, but he assured the audience, don't worry. If it's a result I don't like, I'm going to do what I always do with polls I don't like, and just claim that it's fake. He admitted to these people that he lies about polls being fake news if he doesn't like the results. Here is the really very difficult to follow quote from Donald Trump. So bear with me. By the way, you have a poll coming up. Unfortunately, I want to know what it is. You know, they do that straw poll right. Now if it's bad ideas, I say, it's fake. If it's good, I say that's the most accurate poll perhaps ever. And I know they have it.

And then blah, blah, blah, he's talking about the poll. So if I don't like it, I'm just going to say it's fake. If I do like it, I'm going to say it's the greatest poll ever. And the audience didn't bat an eye when he admitted to them, like, this is what I do when I don't like the polls, which I did all throughout my administration. I just said, oh, it's fake. Don't worry about it. And you idiots ate it up and you went out there and you repeated it too. And now I'm telling you, I'm giving up the game, real mask off moment here, and you're still just sitting there like trained monkeys, just, yay. I mean, to me, what is so shocking about this is that Donald Trump has finally reached the point where he just doesn't give a. Like the dude doesn't care anymore. He's not trying to put on a facade. He's not trying to convince Republicans that no, no, it really is fake news. He's just like, you know what? Screw it. If I don't like it, I just say, it's fake. What are y'all going to do? We're going to clap. He's, he's totally just admitting it now.

That's how comfortable he is with these people. Because he knows at this point, they're totally brainwashed. There is nothing he could say, nothing he could do, that is going to make their love of him falter in any way. He has them in his pocket. So he can be honest about these things now. He can come out and say, yeah, I lie to you all the time and they're just going to keep applauding him like, well, he tells it like it is. These people are beyond saving. You cannot rationalize with people who are this irrational. I don't even think you could pull them back from the brink at this point. It would take probably the best, you know, mental health professionals in the history of the world to deprogram these individuals from the cult. And yes, it is a cult at this point, that they have fallen into. And the question is, is it even worth it? Yeah, there were big crowds at CPAC and I'm willing to bet we're also going to see big COVID spikes from CPAC too. But that's not a majority of the party by any stretch of the imagination. Right. These are the fringiest of the fringe, the craziest of the crazed.

And they love everything Donald Trump says. But we have to believe this is not the majority of Republicans at this point. Unfortunately, the polls are kind of telling us otherwise where you have most Republicans who believe that Biden didn't actually win the election.