Los Angeles Times delves into Trump's 'lies,' calls his presidency a 'train wreck'

Editorials often express strong views, and the Los Angeles Times' series on Donald Trump has thus far proven to follow suit.

Written by the paper's editorial board, "Our Dishonest President," the first of four installments begins, "It was no secret during the campaign that Donald Trump was a narcissist and a demagogue who used fear and dishonesty to appeal to the worst in American voters...Still, nothing prepared us for the magnitude of this train wreck."

The Sunday article goes on to note, "What is most worrisome about Trump is Trump himself. He is a man so unpredictable, so reckless, so petulant, so full of blind self-regard, so untethered to reality that it is impossible to know where his presidency will lead or how much damage he will do to our nation."

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Monday's follow-up, carrying the headline, "Why Trump Lies," addresses the exaggerations and unsubstantiated claims the president has made thus far.

On the matter, the board comments, "His choice of falsehoods and his method of spewing them — often in tweets, as if he spent his days and nights glued to his bedside radio and was periodically set off by some drivel uttered by a talk show host who repeated something he'd read on some fringe blog — are a clue to Trump's thought processes and perhaps his lack of agency. He gives every indication that he is as much the gullible tool of liars as he is the liar in chief."

It further states, "...he puts the nation in danger by undermining the role of truth in public discourse and policymaking, as well as the notion of truth being verifiable and mutually intelligible."

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The Washington Post has also expressed such concerns.

A piece written by the editorial board and published on Friday warns of a White House that appears to use distraction as a tactic.

As example, it cites House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes' confounding handling of surveillance information.

The Post says it was, "clumsy and clownish — but it may have accomplished its main purpose. Mr. Nunes managed to derail his own House Intelligence Committee's investigation into the far more serious matter of Russia's interference in the presidential election, and to distract attention from the emergence of troubling new evidence."

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