Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

The Truth in Donald Trump's Tweets

There's not much of it. Plus, Jonathan Bernstein's morning links.

February 12, 2018 at 2:51 PM UTC

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

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Why do people say that President Donald Trump doesn't tell the truth? Let's see one tweet from the weekend:

To start: Trump butchered the U.S. political system, since the "three branches of government" are the presidency, Congress and the courts. He presumably means president, House and Senate. Of course, all presidents (and everybody else, for that matter) botch things every once in a while, so most people would give him a pass on that one, although the brutal truth is that Trump rarely demonstrates any sort of real knowledge of the basic facts of U.S. government.