Don Lemon Tries to Keep Straight Face While Playing Roundup of ‘All the President’s Lies’

“President Trump wants you to believe that facts are fungible.”

Sparked by Rudy Giuliani’s highly publicized statement on “Meet the Press” Sunday that “truth is not the truth,” CNN host Don Lemon played a medley of clips showing President Donald Trump and members of his administration making similar statements.

Lemon struggled to keep a straight face throughout the ​Monday “CNN Tonight” segment, smiling and laughing at several points.

“This is an administration that has tried to distract and deflect from the facts literally from day one. When then-press secretary Sean Spicer, remember, tried to claim that President Trump’s inauguration crowd was the largest ever,” Lemon said.

“President Trump wants you to believe that facts are fungible. He wants you to believe that truth is something you choose,” he added later on in the segment.

Trump and his administration have been taken to task for their statements on the nature of things like “facts” and “truth.”

Giuliani’s “truth is not the truth” phrase, put forth as a justification for why Trump should not speak with special counsel Robert Mueller, is just the latest in a string of eerily similar sentiments promulgated by team Trump.

One of the first such examples was Kellyanne Conway’s infamous declaration about “alternative facts.”

In July, Trump urged his supporters at the VFW Convention in Kansas City not to “believe the crap” they see from the “fake news.” 

What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening,” Trump said, an expression that was widely characterized as vaguely Orwellian in nature.

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