Donald Trump has just dropped another bomb in his war on the truth

The president's lack of interest in the established facts is long and well documented. According to the latest statistics released by the Washington Post's fact-finder, Trump reportedly reported 8,718 false or misleading statements during its first 759 days in office. That's pretty much, 11.5 lies or deceptive statements per day. Everyday.

"The Washington Post is a fact checker for Democrats" tweeted Trump on Tuesday. "For Republicans, and for your favorite president of all time, it's a dummy auditor!"

This tweet has become difficult Trump's February 11: "The fact checkers have become false information". @ JesseBWatters If true! "

TRUMP: I get my numbers from many sources, mainly Homeland Security, and the numbers I got from Homeland Security are catastrophic.

And you know what else is a disaster? Kirstjen (Nielsen), head of the US Homeland Security, explains the costs we are spending and the money we are losing because of illegal immigration, billions and billions of dollars a month. Billions and billions of dollars, and it's useless.

ACOSTA: So you're saying that your own government's statistics are wrong?

TRUMP: No, no, I use a lot of statistics. I use a lot of statistics.

ACOSTA: Could you share these statistics with us?

TRUMP: Let me tell you that you have much worse statistics than the ones I use, but I use a lot of statistics, but I also use homeland security. Okay, next question.

"A lot of statistics." What statistics? The President never said.

It is important to take a step back to see what happens: the President of the United States, one of the most powerful people in the country and the world, is not only totally indifferent to the truth, but his Also tries to discredit those who try to keep the capital "T" in truth.

He aggressively erodes the idea of ​​fact and truth for a simple reason: because it serves his own political interests. Trump has been touted as the "anti-elite" candidate, posing as a person not bound by the politically correct and liberalism that Democrats, the media and even many of the establishment's Republicans had imposed on the average man in recent decades. In one way or another, the notion of "facts" and "truth" has become elitist in Trump's hands: These fact checkers work for mainstream media. The mainstream media are liberal and skewed. Ergo, we can not trust their "truth".

It worked. And as his campaign against the facts has been successful, Trump has become more and more cheeky about it.

So here is. This is where we are: a president at war with the truth and the idea of ​​objective facts. And a cohort of his followers who believe that Trump's truth is the only one that matters and rejoice at the consternation of not wanting to acknowledge that facts exist are causes.

It will be one of Trump's enduring legacies. More than the ban on traveling. More than the wall. More than all the tweets of intimidation. More than its alleged war with "the deep state". The attempt to eliminate the truth and the facts has had – and will continue to have – extremely detrimental effects not only on politics but on culture in the broad sense. If we can not agree on a set of basic facts, how can we even talk to each other – let alone find ways to compromise?

Remember: the facts are not a partisan position.