Presidential historian calmly destroys raging pro-Trump C-SPAN caller lacking 'logic, reason and intelligence'
historian Douglas Brinkley made an example of a "raging" C-SPAN caller on Monday by using his rant as a lesson about how President Donald Trump has impacted national discourse.
During a President's Day appearance on C-SPAN's Washington Journal, Brinkley noted that President Donald Trump had lied a "mind-boggling" number of times during his first year in office.
"He's the Babe Ruth of lying," Brinkley explained. "There's no president that can even come close. He's in a category unto himself. Whether people find that's okay, that's the new norm. 'If he can get jobs back and I can get some tax cuts, I'm okay with this is a symbol of what the United States is.' I'm not. I find it problematic to have a president that routinely doesn't tell the truth."
"We're talking about a systematic respect for reality," he continued. "We need to make