My unusual discontent with the contemporary political scene can not reasonably
be attributed to current events, - for the country is no different from the way
it has been for the 79 years that I have lived here, - but rather to the 
circumstance that in the past two years it has become more difficult for me 
to deceive myself about the people among which I am living. Obama's lies were 
believable because of his style; Trump's style is more truthful and displays
his mendacity. The circumstance that Trump cannot control himself, that he runs
off both at the mouth and on the keyboard invests his pronouncements with a 
brutal honesty which makes (self)deception much more difficult.

One cannot be both honest and successful in politics. An honest politician
(or statesman) is a contradiction in terms.