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SONO TUTTI BUGIARDI PART 2
YESTERDAY IN PART 1, WE TRACED TRUMP MENDACITY, from the seemingly inconsequential (“architectural envy”) to the profound (his worldwide dissolving Voice of America truth). Today, we start with his biggest (“most beautiful”??) lie.
His 2020 Election Loss. Trump’s most egregious falsehood came in not acknowledging his loss in the 2020 election. And then came January 6, 2021. We all viewed his council to the mob, the resulting “tourist visits,” and a ensuing scattering of democracy.
Image by AP/Jose Luis Magana via hmtsu.edu
Typically of Trump’s doubling down when caught in a falsehood, years later he has the audacity to commute sentences of the insurrectionists (after viewing them on live TV, what else to call them??) and to go after people who brought them to justice.
Degrading the Standards. What’s worse, of course, is the lamentable practice of twisting history to coincide with these distortions of reality. To wit, disabling D.E.I., eliminating “woke,” and dismantling societal benefits initiated by any Democratic president.
Now Fealty Is Into It. Like many Americans, I recently received an email from the Social Security Administration. It read, “Social Security Applauds Passage of Legislation Providing Historic Tax Relief for Seniors.”
Gee, the email sounds like a Trump rally. Can this be true of his Big, Beautiful Bill recently forced through the Congress by the slimmest of margins? Or is it merely another Trump lie passed on by one of his fealty?
Tara Siegel Bernard writes “Social Security Sends Misleading Email Claiming to Eliminate Taxes,” The New York Times, July 6, 2025. She quotes Martha Shedden, president of the National Association of Registered Social Security Analysts: “It is discouraging to see such misrepresentation by the administration and the Social Security Administration.”
The Guardian calls it “ ‘Blatant Misinformation’: Social Security Administration Email Praising Trump’s Tax Bill Blasted as a ‘Lie.’ ” It continues, “Previous SSA officials said that the Trump administration’s framing of the bill was misleading. ‘People are like: “Is this real? Is this a scam?” Because it’s not what they signed up for,’ Kathleen Romig, a former senior adviser at the SSA during the Biden administration, told CNN…. It doesn’t sound like normal government communications, official communications. It sounds like – you know – partisan.”
Or akin to Trump’s ranting weaves at West Point and during our most recent Memorial Day.
Other Quotes From The Guardian: “Jeff Nesbit, who served as a top SSA official under Republican and Democratic presidents, posted on X: ‘The agency has never issued such a blatant political statement. The fact that Trump and his minion running SSA has done this is unconscionable.’ ”
“The New Jersey representative Frank Pallone, the top Democrat on the House’s energy and commerce committee, wrote on X that ‘every word’ of the SSA’s email on Thursday ‘is a lie.’ This big, ugly bill doesn’t change that. It’s disturbing to see Trump hijack a public institution to push blatant misinformation.”
As Senator Chris Murphy warned in “A Thoughtful Analysis,” these are steps along a path to autocracy.
And as Larry Given’s father recognized long ago, “Sono tutti bugiardi.” ds
© Dennis Simanaitis, SimanaitisSays.com, 2025
Simanaitis Says 
I’m impressed how you tell it like it is. Bravo!
Thanks, Tom, for your kind words.
Bless ye, forever young and insightful Signore Simanaitis. Tom’s right as rain.
The good news is Muskrat’s “America” party will further split the GOP vote, the MAGAts already fighting ‘mongst one another, ensuring the Dems take the House in “only” 16 months.
Those of us of a certain age note how time races. Perhaps the ongoing nightmare from which we cannot awake, our eagerness for the freeing midterms, will slow time to the pace ’twas in our 20s.
Agree with you in general, though it’s not appropriate IMO to assume all of the infighting will certainly allow a changeover of House control next year. At least not yet. M. got mad and did social media posts about starting a new party, but where’s the evidence for anything beyond that happening? Trump has pretty tight control of the MAGAts, so it would take a little more than some MuskPosts to produce much of a swing (should we call any MAGAts who make the switch MuskRats?).
As for the speed of time, I’ve seen it described as humans having a fixed length of memory. The older you get, the more gets stuffed in there, and the faster time seems to flow to get through it all in that fixed amount of memory time. No scientific basis for that, but it’s an interesting way to look at it.