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D Lavoie
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Comms and policy. Work for racial justice, social justice, economic justice. Former journo. Current Dad. Personal account, personal views.

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Headline writers speak in such a weird, bumbly prose. No one talks like this
As Trump Puts His Brand on Washington, the Kennedy Center Gets a New Name The center's board announced that it would now be named the Trump-Kennedy Center, although a formal change may have to be approved by Congress. 4 MIN READ
December 19, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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"Mr. Trump has turned exaggeration into an art form."

What.

Why is there an air of admiration to that sentence? I don't think the reporters actually think Trump is making art with his lies. So why is that sentence in there? Why the whimsical soft-pedaling?

(Also, blech to cliched, bad writing)
All presidents bend statistics to their advantage but Mr. Trump has turned exaggeration into an art form. There was an air of desperation to the president's arguments, perhaps reflective of polls showing that even those who voted for him believing he would manage the economy well, were having second thoughts.
December 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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None of these stats are "selective" or "misleading."

As the story itself shows, they're all 100% false.

It's so weird how Beltway media's fealty to tradition can overtake even the very plain meaning of words.
He made highly selective — and often misleading — use of statistics. Mr. Trump argued he cut drug prices by 400, 500 or 600 percent, all mathematical impossibilities. He claimed that inflation had dropped significantly since he became president, without mentioning that in September, the last month for which the government has numbers, it had returned to 3 percent, exactly where it was on Mr. Biden's last weeks in office. He argued that gasoline was now under $2.50 a gallon in much of the country; his own department of energy reports it was $2.90. And he claimed there were states where gas was $1.99; in fact, no state average gas price was that low, AAA reports.
December 18, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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What are we even doing here?
December 18, 2025 at 12:46 PM