With the numbers finally out for Trump’s proposed budget, a lot of news agencies and senators on Twitter are again taking a look back at Trump’s campaign promises.  He claimed that under him, the country would never run a $400 billion deficit.  He claimed that he was the only GOP candidate who was saying absolutely no cuts to Medicaid.  And yet we’re on course to over double the deficit number he complained about, and of course his proposed budget seeks to slash the numbers on Medicaid by a cool $250 billion.  What I’m curious about was how much of those claims were lies that he knew he was telling at the time, or just claims made of sheer ignorance of how governments work.  Because that’s the thing at this point; maliciousness and stupidity are both valid accusations to make.  And if it is just sheer ignorance, one might wonder how that plays into things going forward…