Fake photos mask larger truth

Of course, it had to happen.

The news this week that President Donald Trump’s handlers may have digitally altered his photographs to make him appear not only slimmer and younger, but with... wait for it... longer fingers, is the perfect metaphor for a White House that repeatedly bends the truth to suit its own ends.

This particularly odd turn comes courtesy of The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank, who’s become sort of the Polybius of Trump’s Washington, chronicling every twist and turn of the chaotic 45th president’s equally chaotic White House, with a kind of forensic glee.