Now that Donald Trump has completed the first year of his second occupation of the White House, it might be a good time to remind everyone where he came from and what qualified him to be America’s commander-in-chief. It wasn’t a career as a successful businessman or a real estate mogul. Because he failed bigly at both of those pursuits.

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The primary of occupation of Trump prior to running for president was as the host of a reality TV game show. He did that for 14 seasons. That’s not a side gig or a hobby. An actual billionaire wouldn’t have time for such nonsense. It was how Trump earned a living. If he were any good at business he would have spent more time engaging in it. His only apparent skill appears to be fleecing the willing dupes among his MAGA cult.

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With another year under his XXL belt, Trump is now bragging the he is the most transparent president ever. He believes that he accomplished that by running up a score of “press interactions” that exceeds those of his predecessors. Never mind that just bickering with reporters is not the same as being transparent. In Trump’s mind he is an open book. As evidence his Rapid Response Twitter/X account posted a link to an article in Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post saying that…

“Trump has more than doubled his press engagement numbers from the same point in his first term and blown past all recent predecessors, according to new data shared with The Post. Trump had at least 493 exchanges with journalists — including interviews and event Q&As — during the first year of his second term.”

The article broke down those “press engagements,” revealing that most of them (327) were “short question-and-answer sessions.” Only 13 of them were formal press conferences. Which was ten fewer than in his first term. By far, most of his press avails were incidental encounters that occurred while walking to or from a plane or helicopter, in a doorway on Air force One, tacked onto a meeting with a foreign dignitary, or during staged sessions of slobbering exaltations by his sycophantic Cabinet.

So Trump has performed consistent with his reputation as a reality TV clown, and an attention-starved narcissist craving constant coddling. What he regards as transparency is merely presence. Although most of Trump’s comments during these interactions were outright lies, blatant dodges and deflections, or vicious insults directed at the reporters – mostly at women.

The Post quoted White House spokeswoman Liz Huston gushing that “Trump is the most transparent and accessible president in American history.” But President Biden aide Meghan Hayes countered appropriately that “The American people deserve a president to give honest answers and not insults. It doesn’t matter how many times you interact with press if it is all lies and hateful rhetoric.”

Trump set a high bar for flinging flagrant falsehoods around in his first term when he was documented to have told more than 30,000 lies. But he is valiantly striving to meet or exceed that achievement. And so far he is on track to set new records. According to the New York Times…

“In the first year of his second term, President Donald Trump has cited an arsenal of falsehoods, baseless claims and distortions to try to justify significant policy changes on the economy, immigration and deployments of the military.”

The notion that having lots of press avails is what makes a president transparent requires the logical aptitude and attention span of a crack-addled chicken. Transparency requires honesty and openness. Neither of which Trump has ever exhibited. He has refused to disclose his taxes, or his academic records, or his health reports, or his business affairs.

More recently, Trump has staunchly opposed any releases of the files of his longtime friend, and notorious sex trafficking pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein. That doesn’t exactly scream transparency. To the contrary, Trump is is clearly trying with all of his might to cover up the dark truths that populate his unsavory life story. But the secrecy that he insists upon only makes him look all the more guilty. An innocent man would have been much more forthcoming, much sooner.

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