On June 7, Meet the Press released a long interview with President Donald Trump that has garnered attention for a variety of reasons, almost all of which stem from the interviewer Kristen Welker doing her job as a journalist and pressing Trump hard when it needed to be done.

Trump ended the interview abruptly when Welker pressed him on his baseless claims about election fraud in California.

Another notable moment came when Welker pressed Trump about his campaign promise not to start new wars.

Welker said, "I’d like to talk big picture now, Mr. President. One of your consistent campaign promises was no new wars, going all the way back to 2015. Did you break that promise to the American –"

Trump interrupted to deny it and prattled on about how dangerous Iran is. Admirably, Welker did not let him off the hook and continued to press him. Trump responded,

Well, well. First of all, I didn’t guarantee no war. Why would I have built the strongest military in the world? I built our military. I inherited a terrible military. We had no equipment. We had nothing. I built a tremendous military. Biden gave a lot of it away, but it’s still a relatively small portion compared to what I built.

As Welker continued to push, he went on typical Trump rants impugning her as a "liberal" and "progressive," decrying negative polls as fake, and so on.

As anyone who is not slavishly devoted to Trump and/or so deranged by their opposition to Democrats that they will dutifully swallow everything said by Trump may suspect, Trump's denials are easily-verifiable lies.

For instance, on the night he was re-elected, Trump said,

You know, we had no wars, four years, we had no wars except we defeated ISIS, we defeated Isis in record time and, but we had no wars. They said he will start a war. I'm not going to start a war. I'm going to stop wars, but this is also a massive victory for democracy and for freedom together.

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If you find yourself grasping wildly for ways to explain how this is somehow not a lie or immediately attempting to shift the focus to how the other side is or would have been worse, you might want to pause and reflect on why your first instinct is to do this. Why do you strain endlessly to defend a man who shamelessly lies on instinct? Why would you believe him over your own eyes and ears?

I know it can be hard to accept that Trump has fooled you thoroughly and repeatedly. I know it is hard to let something or someone go after years of taking them into your heart and making your support of them part of your core tribal identity. But at some point, you need to make a choice: Do you actually value and believe in ideas like no new wars, small government, or lower prices like you have said to yourself and those around you? Or do you simply enjoy belonging to the tribe that supports the man irrespective of what he does or says?

Trump's lie is just another example of him betraying those who voted for him. While most Republican supporters might not care, as they seem to support with a religious fervor whatever Trump wants at any given time, what do the voters who chose Trump as the lesser of two evils think?

Will those who voted for Trump primarily because they believed he would focus on avoiding costly wars and somehow bringing down the cost of gas and groceries continue to gobble down the obvious lies and continue to support him despite the Iran war and rising costs? Or will they punish the Republican party in November's congressional elections as a rebuke of Trump and give Democrats another crack at turning things around?

Time will tell, but it does not look good for the Republican party thus far. Perhaps some Americans will finally listen as Trump makes it clear yet again that he simply does not care about Americans or even his supporters.