Bad Fiction

“The historian made clear his distaste for the Trump administration’s embrace of ‘alternative facts’ and false narratives. 

“‘Without the facts we cannot have an honest disagreement. I applaud any president who aspires to the Nobel prize for peace, but we don’t want one in the running for the Nobel prize for fiction.’”  

—David Smith, correspondent, quoting Ron Chernow, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Andrew Hamilton and Ulysses S. Grant, “Trump is just one chapter of bad fiction in America's history, White House press dinner told,” The Guardian, April 28, 2019.

• Editorial Comment: So history will record that this chapter has been fiction? Or just a bad dream.

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