Well, the right wing, Trump's supporting website, The Daily Caller, ran a happy headline for them saying that Donald Trump, as president, takes more questions than Joe Biden did as president.

And they're right.

They are very right to use the verb takes instead of the verb answers.

Donald Trump takes more questions publicly than any president in history.

But he answers fewer questions than any president in history because a lie is not an answer.

To be a member of the White House Press Corps now is to become practiced

in taking Donald Trump dictation of lies, which Donald Trump does with a casual confidence,

knowing that the White House Press Corps will never scream at him the way they could scream at Joe Biden whenever they felt like it,

whenever they had a chance, whenever they were close enough.

And so when Donald Trump told his lies about firing 18 inspectors general late on Friday night,

I mean, happened late on Friday night, didn't tell his lies till later in the weekend,

the White House Press Corps could do nothing but write down the lies and report them. Donald Trump,

in effect, said that he had no personal knowledge of why he fired the inspectors general. He said,

quote, some people thought that some were unfair or some were not doing the

job. It's entirely possible that some people, who Donald Trump talks to, thought that some

unnamed Inspector's General were unfair. But who are those people who thought that? And what was the unfairness they imagined?

There was no chance, zero chance, of getting any answers about that when Donald Trump told the

White House press corps the lie that it was, quote, a very standard thing to do. They all reported that quote,

and the good ones would say in the next line, as the New York Times did, that is not true.

Richard Nixon was the most corrupt president in history prior to Donald Trump, and after

Republican Richard Nixon's corruption

forced him to resign from office in 1974, Congress spent the next few years coming up with

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