Trump Says Affordability Is a Hoax, Voters Should Thank Him

Donald Trump ’s superpower, if he has one, is to assert wildly counter-factual things over and over and somehow convince people his version of reality is gospel or at least plausible. His 2024 presidential campaign was a master class in shameless fabrication: He invented a violent crime wave even as crime statistics were falling nearly everywhere; he invented a nationwide crisis of voting by non-citizens despite almost no evidence it was happening at all; he accused his opponents of consciously betraying the country by deliberately herding violent felons across open borders and directing them to rape, kill and plunder a helpless population of law-abiding Americans, a narrative supported by little more than anecdotes; he asserted that all his many legal problems, capping a career marke