@Jaxk, if it were candor, that would be one thing. When it’s lies expressed in the manner of candor, the better to deceive, it’s another. I think it’s that seeming candor that has seduced so many. Unfortunately he really does not seem to distinguish between truth and falsehood at all.
Trump has a remarkable ability to transform both facts and opinions inside his head. Somehow he processes them into something else, something extreme—as if he had no midrange on any continuum. Everything is a superlative: the biggest, the worst, the best, the most important, the most unfair. And then he candidly expresses his warped perception in language that sounds like Truth to a lot of people but that bears no relation to any objective reality.
I admire your appetite for the truth, and I’m sorry to see that you and so many others who want things done right are being misled by simple language and harsh delivery into thinking that only truth can be expressed that way. If it really were truth, I think most of us would get behind it. Delusion wears candor as a disguise.