In her first briefing as the press secretary of the White House, Karolin Lewit said she was “committed to tell the truth from this podium every day.” After moments, he announced that the new administration had blocked a $ 50 million contract for condoms in Gaza.
“This is an anterior waste of the taxpayer’s money,” he said.
It was also a pre -dawa, an impossible and quick debate on its face. Millions of people were honored in federal grants to prevent sexually transmitted diseases in Gaza, but in the province in Mozambic, not the Palestinian region.
Condom’s claim has gone viral anyway, which is in the political discourse that President Trump has used his widespread push to reduce the federal government.
In the White House, Mr. Trump’s first four years were filled with false or misleading statements – 30,573 of them, or on average 21 day For a tallySubsequently, however, all colleagues often tried to play below or incorporated damage to egoistic lies.
This time, Mr. Trump has joined by a coach of cabinet officers and advisors who have entered them and even spread their own. Together, they are effectively giving institutional forms to disintegration.
Although it is still in a hurry in his tenure, and many of his executive orders are facing legal challenges, which can blunt the influence of any lies to him, Mr. Trump and his advisors have entered the country a new era of politics after truth, where the facts are contested and the stories carry forward policy goals.
On 6 January 2021, Mr. Trump justified hundreds of rioters of violence, including attacks on police officers in Capital, ensuring that “they did not attack”. He attacked Canada, a NATO colleague, claiming that the Phenanel was crossing the border, when less than 1 percent of the drug was actually detected in the country last year.
Brooke Rollins, Shri Trump’s Agriculture Secretary, X claimed on X that he had canceled a $ 600,000 contract to study the menstrual cycle of transgender men, when In fact The grant funded a study on using natural fibers such as cotton, wool and hemp in female hygiene products.
Robert f. Kennedy Junior, Vaccine Skptic which now runs the Department of Health and Human Services, claimed that measles vaccine regularly kills people every year, however Scientists say it’s wrong,
Audrey McKebe, an analyst of the common cause, an Nonpartison Government Watchdog, stated that the administration chased the strategy of “disintegration surcharge” which was not only his opponents but also a judicial system.
“How do we push it back when it is coming from someone who was elected as President and which they have decided to be close to him?, He said.
False statements that once distracting in the deep corners of the Internet, now upgraded by Mr. Trump and his appointment and a media is amplified by the Eco Chamber, reduces political discourses and mixes a comprehensive erosion of faith in institutions themselves.
Elon Musk, technology executive, has repeatedly spread disintegration, leading a crusade against federal expenses, including claims about condoms for Gaza. They have accepted mistakes, but pressurize unwanted.
He recently called social security a “biggest Ponzi scheme of all times”, which means one of the most popular government programs is a criminal activity.
Many such comments can be considered as exaggeration for the effect of rhetoric. There seems to be misunderstandings about other untrue facts emanating from the administration, perhaps inadvertently. Nevertheless, other people surely fall under the category of disintegration as deliberate efforts to mislead Americans.
Increase in all these false or misleading claims in today’s political discourse is also the result of tectonic changes in the media.
Americans have rapidly drifted from traditional news organizations and have landed on a digital cacophone of podcast, livestream and social media feeds, where bias, fury and resentment generally prevail over the balanced idea of facts. Political leftist is its favorite, but this new media ecosystem is today Is dominated to the right,
In a lecture Last month, Kate Starbird, a scholar of disintegration at the University of Washington, described it as a “cut machinery”, built by the design over time.
He said that it has “connected with digital media, effectively benefited by right -wing populist movements and is now drowning in the political infrastructure of this country and others.”
The second term of Mr. Trump has already extended a new generation of online affected, many of which have further followed their politics in post, news articles, interviews or comments. He even brought him to the small White House Press Pool, traditionally operated as a professional, independent cross -crusaller of every President’s movement and pronunciation.
One of them was Brian Glenn, a correspondent for real America, a right -wing streaming and cable channel was established in 2020 that has spread the principles of misinformation and conspiracy. It was Mr. Glenn, who had hectares Ukraine President Volodimier Zelanski to not wear a suit during his oval office meeting with Mr. Trump last month, gave voice to Grumming from the White House colleagues.
“Many Americans,” they claimed, about Mr. Zelansky, “have problems with you not respecting the office.”
For the supporters of Mr. Trump, the present moment has become a war on the truth, which for now, they are winning.
Fox News Personality, JC Waters said last month, “We are leaving the 21st century information war campaign against the Left.”
“This grass-root guerrilla is like war,” he said. “Someone says something on social media, Musk retweeted it, Rogan Podcast broadcast it by Fox. Millions of people have seen it until it reaches everyone.”
The day Ms. Leavet raised false claims about buying condoms for Hamas fighters who control Gaza, online accounts added explosives but also misleading or fabricated details that were still running briefing, and could verify the mainstream organization facts.
Unmarriedly piled on right -wing websites and television programs, claiming that it was an example of fraud for international development for the United States agency, which Mr. Musk had already declared a “criminal agency”.
An article by front page magazine, an orthodox website, called the alleged aid “Terror Condom”, fuses the claim of government and media reports 2018 Hamas fighters were floating instantaneous explosive devices in Israel using inflated condoms and other balloons.
The coverage barrage found an audience. On X, on the stage of Mr. Musk, the positions mentioned in any way were viewed more than 111 million times in the first 24 hours. Audience tweet binderA company that monitors the material there. According to data, the mention of “condoms” and “Gaza” appeared with a joint national audience of 53 million in podcast, radio shows or television programs. Critical mentionA media surveillance company.
Several news organizations, including The New York Times, found the claim baseless, but those facts did not reach almost as the audience.
Usaid spent $ 61 million on contraceptives worldwide in the financial year of 2023, none in the vast majority in Africa and none in Gaza, according to A. annual report Since then it has been removed from the agency website. Last year a separate $ 68 million grant provided emergency medical care in Gaza through the International Medical Corps, which Said It never provided condoms or any other family planning services.
Mr. Trump doubled anyway. He announced that the United States had spent $ 50 million on condoms for Hamas fighters, not $ 50 million, and reiterated the claim that they were used “as a method of making bombs”. And he did this recently as February 19, until it proved to be untrue.
The White House did not answer questions about false claims, but other lies about spending by USAID paved the way for a widespread cut in the agency’s budget. State Secretary Marco Rubio announced on 10 March that it would cancel 5,200 contracts – 83 percent of the total agency.
In some cases, authorities have tried to dismiss questions about false statements. A spokesman of the Department of Health and Human Services pointed to a piece of opinion which Mr. Kennedy wrote for Fox News, in which he wrote These vaccines can protect people from measles, while also arguing that “good nutrition” is a best defense against the oldest and infectious diseases. “
And the Agriculture Department said in a statement that although the contract was canceled by Ms. Rollins, it was actually “at the surface level” for a study of natural fiber, a “academic component” that referred to transgender men. The grant proposal once used the term “transgender” in a summary, which identifies the population that may benefit from research on natural fiber.
Other tricks by Mr. Trump have reflected efforts to track misinformation in the name of free speech and to give misinformation and identify foreign influences. He has gone to disintegrate government agencies created during his first term at cyber space and infrastructure security agency.
They have done this when many guards of the industry have already been opened under political and legal pressure against the spread of disintegration.
Before Mr. Trump returns to the White House, Meta Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company would end its third party fact-zanch program on Facebook, Instagram and Threads, embracing Republican claims that flagging lies were often politically motivated. The company intends to move to use community notes, a crowdsured fact-checking effort used by Mr. Musk in the X that he bought in 2022.
Supporters of Mr. Trump sometimes depict his false or exaggerated statements as strategies of interaction. Mr. Trump has described himself as a means to the end. “If you call it enough and keep calling it,” he once said at a rally in 2021, “They will start believing in you.”
The results, however, may be corrosive – to rely more widely for your own policy goals. He blamed Ukraine, for example, for a fully developed war that Russia started when its forces invaded and called Mr. Zelansky a dictator to suspend the elections, while the country is subject to Marshall Law.
James p. Rubin said, “It is very difficult to have a rational conversation about Ukraine’s policy, if one cannot accept the fact that Russia has invaded Ukraine,” James P. Rubin said, who led the global engagement center of the State Department, which lost his funding in December.
Mr. Rubio, who once President Vladimir V. Putin was called Russia’s “a gangster and thug” and is now making a leading effort to begin a jump for a ceasefire, rejected. Dispute When suppressed.
Mr. Trump’s lies have also maligned close colleagues, including most parts of Europe, and have provoked ridicule globally.
Former Republican Senator John S. Laura Thornton, senior director of Global Democracy programs at McCain Institute, a Nonpartison Advocacy Group named after McCain, said that in the case of Ukraine, Mr. Trump was re -writing history to justify the desire for close ties with Mr. Putin.
“So now there was a real consent on the facts of what we have happened, we have seen a new story,” he said, “who is basically, unfortunately, is very alignd with the Kremlin Katha.”
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