He is a liar.
That is the attack of the lefty wing of my family and friends use the most.
First of all, they believe that because they want to believe that. But still, they get LOTS of help. The MSM pushes this all the time. Their most typical tactic is to take something he says in a rally very literally, even though they know he speaks in emotional hyperbole and rounding exaggerations.
The MSM could have turned Obama into a liar every time he spoke, but obviously chose not to use sound bites out of context.
There is no main stream media anymore when they are shown statistically to attack the President 85%+ of the time.
Every lie, like every form of humor, contains an element of truth.
The problem comes when people, consciously or otherwise, conflate humor with lies, because both DO contain an element of truth, but it is truth used in startlingly different ways. Humor seeks to wrap truth in itself, to deliver news and assurances to those who need to hear it.
Lies, on the other hand, are only looking for the loopholes in the truth at its core, and emphasize those apparent inconsistencies or negative interpretations to discredit and disparage the qualities of the person of whom the narrative makes its target.
Thus, the news that “Trump walks on water,” is somehow converted into “Trump can’t swim!”
It’s hard to try to be rational with people who aren’t rational, isn’t it?