Veracity and a quest for the most earnest form of the truth, should not be on the "extra options menu" of any Presidency.  We have sunk into such a mediocre baseline of what is acceptable, that hyperbole and conscripted navigattion from the truth, have become not just common-place, but what is currently being accepted as the norm out of the White House.  It's never been acceptable and certainly in these complex and divisive times, we deserve much better....