#BTColumn – Truth Decay
Article by January 12, 2021
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by
Ralph Jemmott
President Barrack Obama recently used the words ‘Truth Decay’ to describe the last four years of Donald Trump’s Presidency.
It was sly a play on the dental condition of ‘tooth decay.’ Perhaps the most lasting effect of Trump’s four year occupancy of the American Presidency is the extent to which it has become difficult to determine what is ‘truth’ and what is ‘falsehood.’
Trump’s persistent and on-going claims that anything said against him is false or fake-news seems to have shaken the