This story first appeared at SB Newsmakers .
Donald Trump lied, fabricated, and dissembled throughout his 30-minute “Liberation Day” inaugural address on Monday, a churlish and vainglorious oration well-suited to the aptitudes and values of a reality TV host and former condo salesman.
With his oligarchic posse of tech-bro billionaire masters of the universe looking on, Trump presented himself as a redoubtable monarch, set to sweep away all of America’s problems and activate a “Golden Age” with the swipe of a pen, rather than as the narrowly elected leader of a co-equal branch of government that oversees a democratic republic that is based on checks and balances and the rule of law.