Dear Mr. Trump,

Congratulations! I read this morning that the Washington Post has awarded you one of its most profound and meaningful awards, an award apparently made just for you!

You are now the proud recipient of fourteen (14) Bottomless Pinocchio awards. To earn these, you were required to have blatantly lied (worth by itself three or four Pinocchios) and then repeated the lie at last 20 times. In some cases, the Post points out that you have repeated the same lies more than 100 times!

No one else in history has ever achieved any Bottomless Pinocchios, and here you are, on the debut of this great award, with 14!

Just one or two examples.

You have falsely claimed that the tax cut of 2017 was the largest tax cut in US history. That is a lie you have repeated 123 times! The Reagan tax cut was more than three times as large a portion of the US gross domestic product, but who cares! You’re Trump, the most prolific liar in the history of the world!

You have falsely claimed that, as a result of trade deficits, we are “losing” money or that a foreign country is “taking” money from us. That is a lie that you have repeated 117 times! A trade deficit just means that we are buying more from China, e.g., than China is buying for us. We’re not losing anything. We are getting more Chinese goods than they are getting American goods. The Chinese might as well argue that we are stealing Chinese goods if they embrace the same kind of lying logic that you embrace.

So as you sit in prison one fine day, you can be proud of your accomplishments. More Bottomless Pinocchios are on the way for you, I’m sure.

Very truly yours,

Bruce J. Berger