It was previously reported that, according to military analyst Michael Clarke, the Russian Federation has violated 190 agreements, and there is no need to talk about the lies of its leader. However, Donald Trump made 30,573 “false or misleading” statements during his first term, according to calculations published in 2021 by the Washington Post. This is about 21 lies per day. And now he continues to persistently lie to Americans and the world every day.
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Trump's disregard for truth and honesty in public life is dangerously immoral, according to The Guardian's foreign policy commentator Simon Tisdal .
Last week, Trump declared that the only limit to his power is “my own morality, my own reason.” That explains a lot. His idea of right and wrong is entirely subjective. He is his own ethical and legal advisor, his own priest and confessor. He is a one-man church. Trump lies to himself, as he lies to everyone else. And the damage that results from it is devastating. It costs lives, damages democracy, and destroys trust between peoples, the article says.
Like U.S. voters, foreign leaders have grown accustomed to the president’s chronic lying. But the cost of condoning it, of not calling it out, of not taking a stand, is growing exponentially as his behavior becomes increasingly dictatorial and unpredictable. Donald Trump’s lies and deceit are a pervasive aggravating factor in three intractable contemporary international crises.
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He falsely claims, for example, that Chinese and Russian warships are “all over” Greenland, which calls for a U.S. takeover. Denmark points out that it is spending billions on Greenland, and that the alleged influx of Chinese investment is another White House failure. Polls show that Greenlanders oppose annexation or sale to Trump. They prefer independence. Trump says he wants to secure Greenland. In fact, he wants to seize its mineral wealth — and “make America great again.”
A real flood of lies preceded the coup in Venezuela last weekend. It falsely declared the United States at war, illegally usurping the constitutional authority of Congress, Tisdal adds.
The truth is that Trump has been seeking personal revenge against Maduro since his regime change plan failed in 2018. And the primary goal of the coup is not to restore democracy, although he belatedly agreed to meet with opposition leader Maria Corina Machado. His goal is not to “save” the Venezuelan people or protect U.S. security. The goal is oil. Trump is shamelessly and ruthlessly robbing the country while threatening Mexico, Cuba, and Colombia.
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“Consider Ukraine, the third conflict zone, where Trump’s inability to tell right from wrong, truth from lies, is causing enormous damage. Trump lied, insisting he could easily end the war with Russia in 24 hours. Having failed, he repeatedly promised to be tough on Putin. Again and again, this smiling villain — another inveterate liar — has skillfully cajoled him, then resumed the bombing. Again and again, Trump has weakly backed down, usually blaming Ukraine’s innocent leader, Volodymyr Zelensky,” the commentator explains.
Trump’s duplicity is undermining allies’ efforts to support Kyiv’s fight. One day he smugly accepts applause from NATO leaders; NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte calls him “daddy.” The next day he mocks the alliance and says Europe is facing “civilizational erasure.” Last week he said NATO would not help the United States in an emergency.
Today’s simultaneous crises—Greenland, Venezuela, and Ukraine—have other common factors besides Trump’s dishonesty. In all three cases, the weakness and divisions of European leaders and the EU as an institution have been alarmingly exposed. Perhaps now Europe must finally admit that it cannot trust or rely on this president. In this complex geopolitical context, Brexit no longer looks like just a stupid mistake. It looks almost suicidal.
Disrespect for international law, disregard for sovereign rights and territorial independence, and the continued replacement of the UN-backed rules-based order with neo-imperial spheres of influence are evident in all three crises. As is the failure to protect the democratic rights of ordinary people.
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The US has presumptuously and illegally blocked elections in Venezuela. Russia is trying to kill democracy in Ukraine. Greenlanders say they must decide their own future. But who is listening? Many of these broader trends were already well established. However, Trump’s destabilizing, unprincipled, lawless, chaotic, and fundamentally immoral behavior in 2025 has undoubtedly been the catalyst and accelerator.
Of all these ills, his moral corruption is the greatest. It corrupts, torments, darkens, and poisons the humanity of the world. It is toxic to everything it touches. Trumpism is a devastating disease. Its latest victims are in Minneapolis and Portland. In fact, they are everywhere, the author concludes.
Previously, “FACTS” published a media forecast about the war in Ukraine and the future of Europe in 2026 – the world on the verge of collapse.