(Credit: Getty/Jessica Kourkounis/Salon) Much of what President Donald Trump says about the state of the world is wildly inaccurate, dangerously manipulative and embarrassingly paranoid. Seasoned political observers and commentators react to his steady stream of nonsense with reasonable suspicion that he is lying to them. Certainly, no one could actually believe that the world is a “mess” and a “disaster,” when rates of war, violence and military conflict are at near historic lows.