The objective of this post is to provide all of you Trump Supporters with possible ways to defend the Donald Trump’s Lies when you are debating during the 2020 Presidential Campaign. I realize that this can be a challenging task, however, if you use the same strategies that Donald Trump himself uses, you can have some success.
The first thing you need to realize is that you do not actually need to prove that something Donald Trump said is true. You only need to have a quick response, which will then allow you to deflect and/or re-direct the conversation.
The easiest way to do this is to group Donald Trump’s Lies into different defense strategies, which will allow you to determine how you should respond.
Let’s review them:
Defense #1 – The non-specific Trump Lie defense: This is the easiest of all Trump lies to defend, because the lie is non-specific. A good example would be “I will Make America Great Again”. When Trump said this, he did not give any specific way of measuring if he was achieving his goal or not. You do not have to point to any one thing that proves he has Made America Great Again. You can just say “He has, because you feel that he has”. Another example is Trump’s “Booming Economy”. If the economy is “Booming” why has Trump raised the National Debt by over 1.5 Trillion Dollars per year? But you can just forget that Trump has put his “Booming Economy” on a Credit Card for our children to pay. You can just say the Economy is Booming.
Defense #2 – The he was just kidding defense: The White House has been forced to use this defense on numerous occasions. You can use it too. Sometimes Trump says somethings that are so outrageously incorrect, that you have to use the “He was just kidding defense“. An example of this is the fact that we know, in spite of Trump saying it, the Revolutionary Army DID NOT take control of the airports during the Revolutionary War, since Air Travel had not been invented yet. A more recent example was when Trump suggested that people might benefit by ingesting or injecting disinfectants into their bodies to cure the COVID-19 Virus. The White House really scrambled with that one.
Defense #3 – The he never said it defense: It is very challenging for Trump supporters to hear Trump say something today, that he will deny he said tomorrow, and tomorrow he will deny saying what he said today. Mexico will pay for the Wall is an example of this defense. During his 2016 campaign he would get his crowds to chant “Build that Wall, Build that Wall” then Trump would add “And who is going to pay for the Wall?” and the crowd would yell “Mexico will Pay”. After the election, Trump claimed that he never actually said that Mexico would pay for the Wall.
Defense #4 – The just make shit up defense: This is probably Trump’s favorite defense, and he is really very good at it. I suggest that you practice this before using it. To use this defense, you need to have the ability to just pull shit out of your ass. Trump has been using this a lot with the COVID-19 Virus. When confronted with the number of American COVID-19 Deaths he starts with “The non-specific Trump Lie defense” and says no one could do more than we have done to protect America from COVID-19. Then he follows up with “The just make shit up defense”. When we reached 50,000 COVID-19 Deaths, Trump said, if not for him, one (1) Million people would have died. When we reached 100,000 Deaths, Trump said, if not for him, two (2) Million people would have died. Now that we have exceeded 160,000 Deaths, Trump is saying, if not for him two-three (2-3) Million people would have died.
Defense #5 – “The it still could come true defense” I learned this defense from a Trump Supporter when I asked him why instead of “Wiping Out” the National Debt as Trump promised he would, Trump has increased the National Debt by over Six (6) TRILLION 500 BILLION DOLLARS. The Trump Supporter simply said, Trump can still do it. This is an amazing defense, and you can use it. If Trump is re-elected, he would need to run a six (6) Trillion Dollar Budget surplus every year for four years to do it, or have EVERY taxpayer send the government a check for $211,000. Two income households would need to send $422,000. But, none of that matters, it doesn’t need to be mathematically possible to use this defense.
Summary: I hope you find these tips helpful during the 2020 Presidential Campaign. However, if none of these defenses work for you, and your back is up against the wall, you can always use the “WHAT TRUMP SAID WOULD BE TRUE, IF ONLY THE FACTS WERE DIFFERENT DEFENSE”
REMEMBER: “IT’S NOT A LIE, IF YOU BELIEVE IT” George Costanza