Donald Trump listed a $10.71 million licensing fee as income for Melania Trump as part of his 2025 financial disclosure report for Amazon documentary 'Melania.'
"In a statement, White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said, “Neither the President nor his family has ever engaged — or will ever engage — in conflicts of interest.”
illegal wars of aggression are “special milliary operations”
people the U.S. does not want to grant POW status are “irregular combatants” (a term used for people locked up for decades in Guantanamo Gulag)
extrajudicial killings (e.g. via drone strikes) are “liquidations” or targets being “neutralised”.
torture is “enhanced interrogation techniques”.
I wish I were making this shit up, but most of this vocabulary is from the Bush era. That goes to ahow: while there are certain differences in both quality and quantity, blatant lies to the public have always been a hallmark of (U.S.) governments.
"In a statement, White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said, “Neither the President nor his family has ever engaged — or will ever engage — in conflicts of interest.”
How do these people tell these blatant lies with a straight face?
They’re not lies - they’re “alternative facts”.
In that same vein,
I wish I were making this shit up, but most of this vocabulary is from the Bush era. That goes to ahow: while there are certain differences in both quality and quantity, blatant lies to the public have always been a hallmark of (U.S.) governments.