You can paint an apple orange but in the end it is still an apple.
Or, I believe it was Lincoln who “If I call a tail a leg, how many legs does a dog have? Five? No, calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg.”
And of course there is this little ditty. “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
— John Adams”