Orwell’s “1984” and Trump’s America - The New Yorker
George Orwell saw that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily
a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting
power.
Donald Trump’s lies, and his urge to tell them, are pure Big Brother crude, however oafish their articulation.PHOTOGRAPH BY NINA BERMAN / NOOR / REDUX
