Where is the lie? If I say, "One day I will own Mars," it isn't a lie. It's a statement nobody can prove or disprove. He didn't put a time limit on when the wall would be built, and he didn't say when Mexico would pay. Meanwhile, religious Lefties are very patient with other promises. They've been waiting two millennium for Christ’s second coming. They wouldn’t wait a few years for Trump’s wall or for the Mexican money that will pay for it.
Priest: Never mind my daughter. One day we will all be brought to heaven.
María: But when, Padre? When?
Priest: Patience my dear. When the Second Coming is here, you will know…
María: It’s been more than 2000 years Padre!
Priest: Eez true, but Christ said he will come, so he will come...
María: Sí Padre. I just get so hungry…
Priest: I know, I know. So, any news on Trump’s wall?
María: Ay caramba! He said last week he will build it.
Priest: So where is it? ¡Que ridículo! ¡Que estúpido!
María: Sí, está loco. ¡Una idiota! There eez no wall. The hombre eez a liar!
Priest: Ju didn’t vote for heem I hope?
María: Of course not, Padre. I vote for Cleenton. Ten times.
Priest: Hokay. Next time vote twenty times.
María: Sí.
Ah well… the religious Left. What can you do?
It is a lie. You will never own Mars and Mexico will not pay for the wall. We just have to wait to prove the lie. Trump has even dropped that claim.
Trump hasn’t dropped that claim, and I didn’t say I will own Mars. I said 'If I say, "One day I will own Mars," it isn't a lie. It's a statement nobody can prove or disprove.'
In Trump’s case he said Mexico will pay for the wall, and indeed, Mexico
will pay for the wall. He didn’t put a time limit on it. More importantly, even if Mexico didn’t eventually pay for it (which they will), you
STILL can’t say it’s a lie unless you have the ability to get inside Trump’s head and discover his intent. If he meant what he said (which he did), then he was not lying, regardless of whether people succeed in stopping him building the wall.
This comes down to your failure to understand what a lie is in common law and in common language. Putting aside Stanford’s left winged professors of philosophy and going with the standard definition of ‘lie’, used by courts (and the media who construct your lists of alleged Trump Lies), the definition in dictionaries clearly defines a lie as having a
deliberate intent to deceive. So if I promise my wife to have a picnic tomorrow, meaning it fully, believing it fully, and then tomorrow it rains, and I have to cancel, I am
not a liar despite your screeching insistence I am.
Fictitious Scene: Walmart. Rob and Flash bump into each other.
Rob: Hey Flash.
Flash: How are you Rob?
Rob: Not bad. We’re going on a picnic tomorrow. Promised the wife.
Flash: That’s great. Have a great time.
Rob: Will do.
Next day: Walmart again. Rain is pouring down outside.
Flash: Hi Rob. I thought you were going on a picnic.
Rob: [points to rain outside window] Yeah, well…
Flash: So you lied?
Rob: What’s that?
Flash: You lied. You’re a filthy liar.
Rob: It’s pouring down rain outside!
Flash: You promised your wife and now you broke your promise. So you lied.
Rob: When I promised I meant it, so I wasn’t lying. Shit happens. Sometimes you have to change your plans.
Flash: Nope. You’re a liar.
Rob: Nonsense. You just don’t know the meaning of the word ‘liar’.
Flash: I do too! It’s when you say something that’s not true.
Rob: So when George Washington said, “They’ll never make a better gun than this,” about his musket, he was a liar?”
Flash: Er… yes, if he said that.
Rob: [Grabs dictionary from shelf] Look here. [flips through book]
Flash: What’s that?
Rob: It’s called a dictionary.
Flash: Okay well what does it say?
Rob: [reads] “Lie: To present false information with the intention of deceiving.”
Flash: Must be foreign.
Rob: Nope. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.
Flash: Fuck.
Rob: Hey, don’t feel too bad. It’s your English teacher’s fault.
Flash: Yeah?
Rob: Did she teach any English?
Flash: Nope. Feminism, environmentalism, socialism, most of the ‘isms’.
Rob: But no English?
Flash: No, she said that was racist.
Rob: Hokay. Well, that’s why you don’t understand what a lie is.
Flash: That’s amazing. You learn something every day.
Rob: Newsflash Flash: words have definitions.
Flash: Okay, you don’t have to rub it in…