Overcast and humid this early-afternoon Friday here in California’s Central Valley –not lying; it’s great not having a burning sunshine on your face every day.
Today’s a respite day, however, as the summer shit is expected to return tomorrow with triple-digit temps and more of that skin-boiling sunshine. Weather the weather.

General terms the same message for the T-Rump and the lies that spew continuously from his orange-curdled mouth, as example was his presence at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago — Marc Lamont Hill interviewed by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! this morning:

To say that NABJ was 35 minutes late to start not only kind of — and that the equipment doesn’t work, plays on this idea that, you know, the Black journalists can’t get it together, that Black people show up late and that their stuff doesn’t work, when, in fact, as you pointed out, it started late because Donald Trump was resisting the idea of being fact-checked. He was resisting the idea that people could actually hold him accountable for the things that he says that are not true, because if you do that, then he has to explain how he’s spreading such inaccurate information about people on the other side of the border taking Black jobs, or misrepresenting his contributions to HBCUs and all the other things that he says makes him the greatest president for Black people since Abraham Lincoln.

Plus T-Rump like all liars hates being seen as a liar:

So apparently Trump lied about AV problems leading into that train wreck interview. He was refusing to go on stage if they were going to say when he lied. pic.twitter.com/7Q27KqPL4O

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) August 2, 2024

Details/background via MSNBC, also this morning:

Donald Trump’s appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago on Wednesday got off to such a late start because he did not want to be fact-checked live, NABJ President Ken Lemon told Axios.

Trump’s interview was delayed by more than an hour, and at the time he blamed audio issues for the holdup. “The speaker equipment at the NABJ is not working properly. Don’t blame me for being late!” he posted on Truth Social.

The technical issues were apparent during the interview, but Lemon told Axios that they “were resolved very quickly.” Yet, Trump still refused to go on stage if he was going to be fact-checked, Lemon said.

“The bigger problem was his threat not to take the stage when he had agreed to go on,” Lemon added. “He did not want to be fact-checked, but we could not let him on the stage without fact-checking.”

Lemon’s comments square with previous reporting that the interview was delayed because Trump objected to the live fact-check shortly before the event began. Lemon told Axios he was preparing to announce that Trump would not appear because of the fact-checking dispute when the GOP nominee walked on stage.

In order to stop from being exposed as a liar afraid of being caught lying, T-Rump hustled out with a piece-of-shit attitude and an asshole-bullshit sensibility — his normal prance.

As an aside in context — from the Abstract of a research paper on the T-Rump and lying, published in March 2020 at Oxford Academic:

“Truth” aims to explain why Donald Trump lies more than any other public official in the United States today, and why his supporters, nonetheless, put up with his lies. The chapter combs the biographical record to highlight some of the most egregious examples of Trump’s untruths and then considers reasons behind Trump’s remarkable penchant for lying. For Trump, truth is effectively whatever it takes to win the moment, moment by moment, battle by battle—as the episodic man, shorn of any long-term story to make sense of his life, struggles to win the moment. Among the many reasons that Trump’s supporters excuse his lying is that they, like Trump himself, do not really hold him to the standards that human persons are held to. And that is because many of his supporters, like Trump himself, do not consider him to be a person—he is more like a primal force or superhero, more than a person, but less than a person, too.

Lying like breathing, or not, yet once again here we are…

(Illustration out front: ‘Pinocchio,’ by Enrico Mazzanti, and found here.)