Even Trump Can’t Spin This One
TechnologyEven Trump Can’t Spin This OneYou can’t post your way out of a war.By Charlie WarzelSaul Loeb / AFP / GettyJuly 25, 2026, 7 AM ET ShareSave If President Trump has one true skill, it is conjuring up alternate realities and getting his supporters to accept them. The examples are everywhere: dismissing stories he doesn’t like as “fake news” from corrupt media, casting the January 6 rioters as victims, election denial. After he baselessly insisted that there had been rampant mail-in voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, 11 states made mail-voting access more restrictive.
- ▪TechnologyEven Trump Can’t Spin This OneYou can’t post your way out of a war.By Charlie WarzelSaul Loeb / AFP / GettyJuly 25, 2026, 7 AM ET ShareSave If President Trump has one true skill, it is conjuring up alternate realities and getting
- ▪The examples are everywhere: dismissing stories he doesn’t like as “fake news” from corrupt media, casting the January 6 rioters as victims, election denial.
- ▪After he baselessly insisted that there had been rampant mail-in voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, 11 states made mail-voting access more restrictive.
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TechnologyEven Trump Can’t Spin This OneYou can’t post your way out of a war.By Charlie WarzelSaul Loeb / AFP / GettyJuly 25, 2026, 7 AM ET ShareSave If President Trump has one true skill, it is conjuring up alternate realities and getting his supporters to accept them. The examples are everywhere: dismissing stories he doesn’t like as “fake news” from corrupt media, casting the January 6 rioters as victims, election denial. After he baselessly insisted that there had been rampant mail-in voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, 11 states made mail-voting access more restrictive. His repeated false claims in 2024 that Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, were eating pets led to real threats against the community.
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