Opinion | Steve Krakauer: 'When it comes to Trump's whoppers, journalists would better serve the public by focusing on quality rather than quantity.' - NBCNewsTHINK
Donald Trump stands inside the Trump Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on March 16, 1990.Steve Krakauer
As Trump put it, “what the bulldozers and dump trucks did wasn’t important … so long as they did a lot of it. If they got some actual work accomplished, all the better, but if necessary, he should have bulldozers dig up dirt from one side of the site and dump it on the other.” This exercise in performative winning, in artful exaggeration, or to put it another way, in making false or misleading claims, is particularly relevant now as President Trump has recently passed, by The Washington Post’s mark, a monumental milestone. The rigorous fact-checkers at the Postof eyebrow-raising statements — claiming he’s the most transparent president ever, among others.
Through it all, one of the most consistent things about Trump is his ability to play the media. For example, he recalls once posing while “shoveling cement” during the rebuilding of Wollman Rink in Central Park. Of course, he wasn’t actually helping with the construction. But “as long as [the press] want to shoot, I’ll shovel,” he wrote.
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