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Kristi Noem Unleashes More of the Delusional Hyperbole That is the Hallmark of the Cult of Trump [1]
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Date: 2025-08-31
The Primary Directive of every cult is that only Dear Leader will tell you the truth, and that every else is lying to you. It's a doctrine that has been fully adopted by Donald Trump and his MAGA movement. In their world all judges are "lunatic radicals," polls are manipulated. government bureaucrats are "deep state" operatives, opposition politicians are purposefully evil, and the media is, as Stalin said, "the enemy of the people."
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With the Cult of Trump, dishonesty is just the beginning. There is apparently a dictum that also mandates that their lies must be as far removed from reality as possible. Trump and company likely picked this up from Hitler and his Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels, who pioneered the doctrine of "The Big Lie." Trump himself coopted the concept in the book that he lies about having written, "The Art of the Deal," by paraphrasing it as "truthful hyperbole." Minus the "truthful" part.
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These principles were affirmed on Sunday morning's episode of "Face the Nation" where Trump's Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, was interviewed. In a discussion about Trump's authoritarian agenda of deploying military troops in American cities - but only the ones led by Democrats - in order to restore his version of fascist order, Noem made the following preposterous comment...
"I do know that L.A. wouldn't be standing today if President Trump hadn't taken action. That city would have burned down if left to the devices of the mayor and the governor of that state."
x Kristi Noem: "I do know that LA wouldn't be standing today if President Trump hadn't taken action." — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-08-31T14:37:24.224Z
REALLY? The city of Los Angeles spans over 500 square miles. The demonstrations against Trump's unwarranted and illegal deployments were centered in a few blocks of the downtown area. And the National Gaurd and Marine troops spent most of their time in their quarters or standing around some federal buildings that weren't targeted by protesters. Reporting at the time noted that...
"LA County District Attorney Nate Hochman on Wednesday said that protests in the Los Angeles area involve less than 1% of the population and are largely peaceful. [...] Hochman said that means 99.99% of residents have done nothing illegal in connection with the demonstrations."
Noem also claimed that the DHS thugs were only going after "the worst of the worst." That was also untrue according to the data from Trump's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency:
"The majority of people currently detained by ICE have no criminal convictions. Of those who do, relatively few have been convicted of high-level crimes. [...] The latest ICE statistics show that as of June 29, there were 57,861 people detained by ICE, 41,495 — 71.7% — of whom had no criminal convictions."
The mammoth scale of the hyperbole coming from Noem is clearly commanded from the top. Trump's own commentaries routinely include the same sort of monumental lies. For instance...
Trump on Taxes (aka Tariffs): "Without Tariffs, and all of the TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS we have already taken in, our Country would be completely destroyed, and our military power would be instantly obliterated."
Trump on Court Rulings: "If allowed to stand, this Decision would literally destroy the United States of America."
Trump has an incredibly negative view of America as a pitifully weak nation that could curl up and die at any moment. Either that, or he's just mad because destroying America is his thing and he doesn't want someone else horning in.
Of course, Trump's Ministry of Propaganda - Fox News - is backing him up all the way. While some people might regard Trump's relentless dispensing of hyper-hyperbole as evidence of a cognitive decline, Fox News is ready with a defense. And when the question of his mental acuity raised, his name doesn't even have to be mentioned for his defenders at Fox to step up and deny the dementia that others claim to see...
x What's truly hysterical about this is that the post from Newsom's Press Office (@GovPressOffice) doesn't even mention #DonaldTrump.
But the goofballs at Fox News immediately knew that, because it's about dementia, it must be about Trump. 🤣😜🤡
https://t.co/TtVBzDfmO3 — News Corpse (@NewsCorpse) August 31, 2025
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