Is Trump another David Copperfield?

Politics has always been about smoke and mirrors. One says one thing and another says another thing and in between there is a tiny splodge of truth mixed in a mish-mash of generalities and vague assertions. When a politician says, "The fact of the matter is," or "I want to make it perfectly clear", you need to be on your guard! That's when the smoke and mirrors come in. Trump is a great one for hurling great big statements out on social media and then within a short period he starts back-tracking, and claiming he said the opposite. So how are we simple souls supposed to make up our minds? It's a bit like magic. Take David Copperfield for example. He has built a huge reputation for being the most dramatic magician on stage. If anyone can make a herd of elephants disappear, he can. It's always a great spectacle. But now he has been found out. Someone involved in one of his most famous tricks, fell over in the process of "disappearing" and hurt himself and is suing Copperfield. As part of his case he had to explain how he "disappeared" and why he injured himself in the process. The magic turned out to be more about logistics than wizardry. A bunch of people get on stage, a curtain comes down and before you can say Whizz Bang Wallop, the same people are standing at the back of the theatre. Everyone applauds and turns to each other and says: "How on earth did he do that?" Well, what he did was get one of his flunkies to herd all the people on the stage quickly down some backstage passageways, round the theatre and through the front and, voila, there they are at the back of the auditorium looking somewhat out of breath. Simples really. No magic involved except in the eye of the deceived. This is what Trump is good at. Like, for instance, his claim way back on Inauguration Day, that many more people came to see him on that day than at Obama's Inauguration Day. The photo images proved it! Well, they didn't. In fact they proved the opposite when they were examined closely by nasty truth-seeking journalists. Perhaps all the crowds were the other side of the Capitol and they had all been "magicked" there by President Copperfield.