Forget the post-truth presidency, when it didn’t matter — or so the Trump White House hoped — whether the president told the truth. We have now entered even scarier territory, the pre-truth presidency: If an assertion isn’t true, no worry. President Trump will find a way to make it so, or at least claim it is. so that means I’m right,” Trump told Scherer, reading from a news report. Claiming so may be good enough for Trump and the pre-truth presidency he oversees.

Source: Washington Post March 23, 2017 21:45 UTC