The “King of Fake’s” Double non-Standard©

 The “King of Fake’s” Double non-Standard© 

In a previous blog I referred to President Trump as the “king of fake,” not only because he calls most opposition media and news “fake,” but also because, as he so often does, he projects on to others the very things he does. A majority of what he says is lies, which makes HIM the king of fake.  

Here is yet another example of both tendencies. Mid-week last week he hosted Cyril Ramphosa, black president of South Africa, in the White House. An account of one segment of the meeting went as follows:

Trump then confronted Ramaphosa with unsubstantiated claims that South Africa’s Black-led government is anti-white and perpetrating a “white genocide” against local farmers—while Elon Musk, the South African-born billionaire, stood on the sidelines of the Oval Office.

“Have they told you where that is, Mr. President?” Ramaphosa said in response to the claims. “I’d like to know where that is, because this I’ve never seen.”

Fact-checkers later established that the footage Trump played didn’t actually show the “burial sites” of “over a thousand” white farmers.

The white crosses on display had been temporarily erected as a memorial to a white farming couple shot dead on their premises in 2020.

Trump claimed the “Fake News Media” were not covering the “genocide.”(1)

The President not only used “fake” information during the meeting, he used the Hitlerian-like ploy to assert that the “fake news media” wasn’t covering his “fake” news. Here we have more of the increasing mountain of evidence that Donald Trump is indeed a king–the king of fake.  

He frequently treats world leaders he doesn’t like, or those from countries he doesn’t like, in this fashion. On the other hand, dictators and murderers from authoritarian regimes like China, Russia, North Korea, and Saudi Arabia, more often get red carpet treatment, and as in the case of the murdering Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman in mid-November, defending him from questions about the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and criticizing the reporter who ask the question for being unkind to his guest. It is okay for him to attack Ramaphosa, but reporters can't ask a murderer a question that might embarrass him. This exposes a double standard that is typical of the President, and when you stop to ponder the matter, you discover that it more importantly exposes the total lack of moral character of MAGA’s prince of fake. It isn't a double standard; he has no standards.

This the man MAGA apparently holds up to their children as a statesman, and the man who indeed will Make America Great Again. He is anything but a statesman, in fact, he is the exact opposite. And he certainly seems to enjoy insulting, demeaning, criticizing, and trying to humiliate leaders from countries all over the world. Make America Great Again? Huh! We are the laughing stock for electing him, but MAGA cataracts prevent them from clearly seeing the real character of a man whom the world sees crystal clear as a “fake” through and through.

Let’s think together again, soon.

Notes:

(1) Cameron Adams, “World Leader Absolutely Rips Trump’s Social Media ‘Insults,’” from The Daily Beast, 27 November 2025. Emphasis added. https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/world-leader-absolutely-rips-trump-095913411.html

Note: segments of various amounts of this exchange were shown widely in the media.