Forty-one years have passed since the year 1984 of George Orwell’s imagined dystopian future in his 1949 novel, “Nineteen Eighty-Four.”  As the old saying goes, “Fiction is the lie that tells truth.”

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“We have glorious news for you. We have won the battle for production! Returns now completed of all classes of consumption goods show that the standard of living has risen by no less than 20 percent over the past year.”

• Nineteen Eighty-Four

“Prices are going down, not going up. I see that we had a couple of states where gasoline was at $1.98 a gallon. Nobody thought they’d see that for years maybe. And as you know, the cost of eggs has come down like 93%, 94% since we took office, and they’re pretty much normally priced now.”

• Donald Trump

-“As usual, the face of Emmanuel Goldstein, the Enemy of the People, had flashed onto the screen.”

• Nineteen Eighty-Four

“Crooked Joe Biden will have destroyed our Country with his Open Border MADNESS, and allowing criminals of every type to enter with no Retribution. Murderers, Drug Dealers, Gang Members, and even the Mentally Insane will make their home in our Country, wreaking havoc like we have never seen before.”

• Donald Trump

The Ministry of Truth

         –  Nineteen Eighty-Four

Truth Social

• Donald Trump

The “Disputed Territories” 

• Nineteen Eighty-Four

“We need Greenland for national security.” 

• Donald Trump

“Ignorance is Strength”

• Nineteen Eighty-Four

“I love the uneducated.”

• Donald Trump

“The Memory Hole,” disposal system for inconvenient information. 

• Nineteen Eighty-Four

– Trump administration removes from government websites and libraries references to race, gender, sexual orientation and diversity, equity initiatives.

“Unperson,” person who has been erased from existence by the government for breaking the law. 

• Nineteen Eighty-Four

  -Trump administration sends 200 illegal immigrants to prison in El Salvador under  war powers act.

 “Newspeak,”  language of totalitarian government, including such words as “crimethink” and “doublespeak.”

• Nineteen Eighty-Four

 “PANICAN,” “A new party based on Weak and Stupid people!”

• Donald Trump

The Thought Police

• Nineteen Eighty-Four

-US Citizenship and Immigration Services announced it will screen the social media of immigrants and visa holders for evidence of antisemitic and anti-administration activity.

-“Thoughtcrime”

    –     Nineteen Eighty-Four

“Improper ideology”

• The Trump administration

 “Goodsex,” Any form of sex considered acceptable by the Party; specifically, married heterosexual sex for the exclusive purpose of providing new children for the Party. All other forms of sex are considered sexcrime.

• Nineteen Eighty-Four

“It is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female.”

• Donald Trump

“All their ferocity was turned outward, against enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals.”

• Nineteen Eighty-Four

– “They let — I think the real number is 15, 16 million people into our country. When they do that, we got a lot of work to do. They’re poisoning the blood of our country.”

    –     Donald Trump

“Who controls the past controls the future.”

“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.”

• Nineteen Eighty-Four

-A third of Americans believe Donald Trump’s lie that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen from him.

“Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”

• Nineteen Eighty-Four

“Ultimately, I’m always right.”

• Donald Trump