On Friday, Donald Trump called for America to “unify as a nation in piece, love, and in harmony.” Then went on to attack the press, the Democratic Party, and anyone who challenged him as if on of his supporters had not just taken his words as a prescription to mail pipe=bombs around the country. The very next words from Trump’s mouth were a complaint about the “the media’s constant unfair coverage, deep hostility, and negative attacks” which Trump blamed for the real political divide. And then, after insisting again that all he wanted was “honest coverage” — then as CNN reports Trump went on to lie, attack, and lie so big … or is it bigly … that “lie” seems inadequate.

In his discussion of health care, Trump insisted that Democrats “want to end Medicare.” Which isn’t just a lie, it’s the opposite of truth. And it was just the first of several, as he followed it up with claims about how the Republicans wanted to protect Americans whose medical coverage was threatened by preconditions, but Democrats did not.

When it came to immigration, Trump took the already inflated lies that had been his standard approach to the subject and inflated them even further.

Trump: The Democrats want to invite caravan after caravan of illegal immigrants into our country and they want to sign up them for free health care, welfare, and they want to sign them up for the right to vote.

Which is a lie, followed by a lie, compounded with a lie, trailed by a lie — all built on top of an assumption. That’s a lie.

And that is “honest coverage” of Trump’s statements. But of course, Trump doesn’t want honest coverage. He wants what he gets from Fox — fawning repetition and a whole crew of anchors who work overtime to generate justification, even if it requires them to bend logic like pretzels.