Most of us have heard of or even been to Disneyworld, FutureWorld, or FantasyWorld.  However, few of us knew that on January 20th of this year, we’d all be dragged into the hallucinogenic land known as TrumpWorld.

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You may have never heard the term ‘TrumpWorld’ before, but rest assured you are certainly very familiar with it.  You see, TrumpWorld is the land where Donald Trump lives every day of his life, seeing the world through a set of make-believe glasses that no one else seems to see.  In short, TrumpWorld is his own version of reality where Donald Trump is king and Fox News is the ultimate news.  It’s located in a not-so-amusing amusement park where we’re all just unwilling passengers along for the ride.

In TrumpWorld everything is perfect.  ALWAYS! Nothing is ever wrong or out-of-place.  “The Donald” is the smartest man in the land and a masterful technician.  Any and everything he says and/or does is golden and beyond reproach.  If perfection is 100% then Donald Trump is operating around 750%.

In Trump’s world, he spent 8 years criticizing Barack Obama for not snapping his fingers and magically getting things done. “Just do it” is what Trump frequently told the former president via the media, apparently totally misunderstanding our system of governing, our 3 branches of government, and the fact that the role of the POTUS is not that of a dictator.  Too bad someone didn’t pull him aside and explain all of this to him before he took the oath of office.

In the irrational universe known as TrumpWorld, “The Donald” believes he long ago had the necessary votes to replace Obamacare, that the hurricane recovery efforts in Puerto Rico are getting “A-plus ratings,” and that he has a “fantastic” relationship with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.  However, in the world where the rest of us live, Trump never came close to having the required votes to repeal Obamacare, people in Puerto Rico are still without electrical power and clean drinking water, and Mitch McConnell can’t stand him and Rex Tillerson continues to think he’s a moron.

In fact, things are so delusional in TrumpWorld, that retiring Republican Sen. Bob Corker recently likened the current White House to an adult day care center where Trump needs to be monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

“Since he first emerged as a presidential candidate, Trump has regularly asserted things that aren’t true in order to either avoid uncomfortable questions or paint a rosy (or dystopian) picture of whatever issue he’s talking about,” said Dr. Nicole Hemmer, an assistant professor in presidential studies with the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.

To Donald Trump, he’s always right and everyone else is always wrong.

For example, when a Florida congresswoman went public with word that Trump told a deceased US soldier’s family “He knew what he signed up for,” Trump denied ever saying it.  In fact, he called the report “Fake News” despite the soldier’s family coming forward to corroborate that he did say those exact words.

Additionally, in regard to his contact with the families of deceased US soldiers, Trump recently said: “I think I’ve called every family of someone who’s died.” However, the families of those slain soldiers have since come forward to say they have never heard from Donald Trump.

Are all of these military families lying?  Or is Trump (once again) stretching the truth??

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Even when the evidence is clearly mounted against him, Trump will frequently ignore the truth and stand firm in his own version of reality.  Unfortunately, it’s unclear if he actually believes his own lies, or if he just wants the rest of us to believe his own lies.

To counter the sea of untruths that regularly slip from his mouth, the media has taken to trying to keep the general public abreast of difference between Trump’s truth and the actual truth.  So, to counter their counter, Trump recently went to the FCC to make them bypass the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of the press and force the media to print whatever HE says instead of the real truth.  Needless to say, his request was promptly denied.

Donald Trump doesn’t seem to understand that he is not a sovereign ruler or a dictator.  He is not Kim Jong-Un force-feeding the North Koreans what he wants them to know while preventing them from seeing the world as it really is.  The US is a democracy and its citizens have free access to the television, the news, and Google Search.  Trump can’t simply tell us what he wants then magically expect us all to believe it.

What’s sad is that Trump supporters who also reside with him in TrumpWorld regularly blame his critics and the media for distorting reality, and for taking Trump’s statements out of context or putting them in a false light while he seeks to promote his “great” agenda.  Yeah, right.

One such prominent resident of TrumpWorld is White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders, who regularly stands at a podium in The White House and actually repeats her boss’s lies with a straight face.

“You can say that the president is positive and the media is negative, always focusing on the negative side of things,” she recently said.  “People want somebody who is real, who is authentic, and who is not scripted.”

Yes, Sarah, you are correct.  People DO want somebody who is real and authentic.  However, they also want somebody who is telling them the real truth and not some made-up version of the truth.  They want to trust the words from their government, without the need to always seek a 2nd opinion.

Will Donald Trump ever become trustworthy? Or will he continue to make his home in the make-believe land of TrumpWorld?

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