Donald Trump may go down in history as the “Burger King President.” There just isn’t any whopper he will not serve.

Most recently, Trump has claimed the media misrepresented the size of the crowd at his inauguration. He even had his press secretary, Sean Spicer, make a fool of himself by saying, with a straight face, “This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period — both in person and around the globe.”

Trump is now also questioning the fact that he lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by nearly 3 million. According to our “Burger King President,” his shortfall was due to voter fraud, more precisely, be believes between three million and five million unauthorized immigrants voted for Clinton.

But not all Trump whoppers are out-and-out lies. Some are just childish, vainful boasts.

During the presidential campaign, Trump claimed he knew more about ISIS than the generals. He stroked his ego by saying all of the women on The Apprentice flirted with him. He bragged about his high IQ. He claimed his fingers are long and beautiful. He blew his own horn by repeating he is very, very, very rich … to the tune of $10 billion.

But perhaps his greatest boast, made at the start of his presidential campaign, was that he “could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue, shoot somebody,” and he wouldn’t lose any voters.

Everyone in the media laughed and ripped apart the 70-year-old man-child for saying something so completely nuts and outrageous.

In retrospect, Trump was partially correct about his seemingly inane bravado.

There is a certain segment of Americans (perhaps 25%) who will believe, as gospel, whatever comes out of Trump’s mouth. They will follow their leader to wherever he takes them. They will not believe their own eyes and ears. They will brand anyone who tries to disparage their beloved… “the enemy.”

Trump, to this group of loyalists, is less a president than a cult leader. And as with any such leader, Jim Jones of the Peoples Temple comes to mind, his followers will drink the Kool-Aid knowing full well it is laced with cyanide.

Logic, reason or even common sense will not get through to Trump’s cult followers. Unfortunately, for everyone else, their demented supreme commander is also the leader of the free world.

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Make no mistake about it. The Trump administration just fired the first official salvo of a new American war. No, it’s not some sappy metaphorical war like the one on poverty, drugs or crime. This is a real war … on reality.

Of course, the signs that Trump would wage such a battle once in the White House were evident throughout his campaign. He denied being in favor of the Iraq War even though clear evidence showed otherwise. He denied mocking a disabled journalist even though there is actual video of him doing so.

Now we have Trump’s press secretary, Sean Spicer, in his first press briefing, disseminating what can only be described as an easily provable, eminently verifiable, out-and-out lie.

“This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period, both in person and around the globe,” claimed the new White House press secretary yesterday.

It doesn’t matter that evidence exists to prove his statement false. Visual proof shows Trump’s crowd was about one-third the size of the group that gathered for Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration.

Defending Spicer on NBC’s Meet The Press today, Kellyanne Conway snapped at host Chuck Todd for having the nerve to call Spicer’s statement a “falsehood.” She preferred calling his words a presentation of “alternative facts.”

To Todd’s credit, he hammered Conway with “alternative facts are not facts. They are falsehoods.”

If we Americans are to defeat Trump and his dangerous, nazi-like war on reality, we need more Chuck Todd’s in the world.

But unlike Todd’s characterization of Spicer’s statement as a “falsehood,” we need to use a more basic, effective and simpler word.

When Trump or his surrogates do not offer up the truth, our press cannot pussyfoot by using words like misstatement, distortion, fabrication, untruth or prevarication. They need to call a spade a spade. In this case, they need to tell us what we just heard or read was a shameless, bald-faced LIE.

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Tomorrow, Donald J. Trump will be sworn in as the nation’s 45^th president. And at long last, conservatives will have taken “their” country back … as in backward!

Conservatives, by definition (and nature), fear progress. They long for the simpler days of yesteryear when everything seemed to make sense. For them, a return to the 1950s has always been their greatest wish.

Gee those days of Ike and “Father Knows Best” were so swell!

But exactly what made those bygone days so great? Why do conservatives believe the fifties were America’s golden age?

Unlike today, the 1950s were a time when everyone seemed to know his or her place. For blacks, it was the back of the bus. For women, it was the kitchen. For homosexuals, it was the closet. It was a time when few doubted we were a Christian nation. There was no war on Christmas by the godless media.

Oh to be back to those glory years of three TV networks, home milk delivery, LPs, fotomats, skate keys and S&H Green Stamps!

With Trump about to assume the office of president, conservative Republicans think they have a man in the White House who will rubber stamp their legislation rolling back progress made by Democrats since FDR.

Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid? Chopping block. A woman’s right to abortion? More restrictions. Public education for all? Not so fast. Environmental protection? Less regulations. Voting rights? More obstacles. Marriage equality? Let’s get back to the Bible.

Yes, conservatives can’t believe their good fortune. Many think they are only one Supreme Court justice away from having it all.

Unfortunately, President Trump may just surprise them. He is not ideologically driven as they are. The fact is he has no core political convictions …. zilch. He just may bend to public opinion that is dead set against conservative regression.

“Yesterday! Yesterday! I love ya Yesterday! You’re only a day away!”

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