Lawrence: The public knows Trump is lying about tariffs. Why doesn't the White House press corps?

Well, the possibility of a relentlessly stupid person becoming president of the United States has been underexplored by screenwriters. And then Donald Trump came along and went far beyond what Hollywood could ever imagine in the presidency. Prior to Donald Trump, the challenge for screenwriters and fiction writers would have been, first of all, how could a profoundly stupid person be elected president of the United States? Then how could a profoundly stupid person get through a day on the job as president? ...