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Trump and the age of bullshit: the roots of a knowledge crisis
By Matt McManus August 27, 2018
When a bullshitter speaks, it is with indifference or even hostility to the whole concept that there might be a real world out there which can and will contradict their statements.
U.S. President Donald Trump has made false public statements incessantly since (and before) he took office. Photograph by Michael Vadon, courtesy of Flickr
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