Donald Trump is allergic to facts. Yes, I know. Not the type of allergy you were expecting to see but with each passing day, it becomes increasingly clear that the US president is allergic to simple facts. To be fair, this may have been evident for years now but Trump’s unhinged behaviour in recent weeks has put this “allergy” of his right back in the spotlight.

For starters, he’s basically declared that the coronavirus is not a big deal.  I get it. The coronavirus death toll is more than his fingers can count (122,417 at the time of writing to be exact), so perhaps he can’t quite comprehend what exactly comes after ten, that doesn’t give him free rein to misguide an entire nation.

It was bad enough that he tweeted that increased testing is the reason why the number of cases in the US is so high, but for him to actually tell his staff to slow down testing to hide the discovery of more cases is just downright stupid. Of course, White House reps insist the president was kidding but come on, do you really think that?

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1272532925460905984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1272532925460905984&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fliveatpc.com%2Fbreaking-donald-trump-has-found-a-way-to-put-an-end-to-the-coronavirus-in-america%2F

And it gets worse. Just hours ago, Trump in his infinite wisdom took to Twitter to push yet another absolutely BASELESS conspiracy theory (One of the many he’s encouraged in the past couple of months). So what was it this time? In a tweetstorm, Trump dropped this gem on us (in uppercase so you know he means it)

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1275024974579982336

There’s a lot of wrong going on here. For starters, he’s not brought forward any evidence whatsoever. Then there’s the fact that even with the coronavirus pandemic, Americans vote by mail by the MILLIONS without any signs of widespread fraud, foreign or otherwise.

Trump doesn’t seem to notice that he’s insinuating that it’s easy for foreign countries to just print mail-in ballots like as if there isn’t already some sort of system in place to ensure that doesn’t happen. The fact of the matter is, there are contingencies in place that make it extremely difficult for what Trump is describing to happen without being discovered.

And now for the icing on the cake. A little more than two hours later, he comes up with this:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1275062328971497472

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha I can’t even begin to comprehend this tweet. Again, mail-in ballots are rather common. A government estimate put the percentage of mail in votes at 23.6% of Americans in 2016. This amounts to more than 32 million people, and this was 3 years ago.

And then of course, there’s the World War comparisons. How do you think people voted during both World Wars I and II? Absentee ballots made up for a big part of votes back then. In fact, one of the reason mail voting exists was so Union soldiers could vote.

At this point, Trump is making it too easy. The president seems to think that he’s still in high school with the way he’s trying to control what people think about him via the use of, dare I say, his opinions. We may not know much about what the president is allergic to, but we sure as hell know the truth is on that list.