It's December 12. It's been about five weeks since Donald Trump won the presidential election, and it will be another six-ish weeks before he takes the oath of office.

In the past five weeks, we have found out that a lot of what he said on the campaign trail was a lie. He was saying whatever he had to say, to pull votes from the Harris campaign and to collect votes for his own campaign.

Some of his lies

Immigration

One of the things I'm most incredulous about is the fact that he courted and received so many votes from immigrants, and children of immigrants. (Disclosure: I'm an immigrant. Came across the border with my parents when I was 7 years old. Had a green card for 15 years, then became a U.S. citizen. You wanna make something of it?) They thought that somehow they would be protected from Stephen Miller's Nazi-like excesses. But after the election, Trump and his team started talking about all of the immigrants they would be rounding up and deporting -- which included a lot of those who voted for him.

It might not be fair to call this a "lie." In my mind, Trump has always made it clear where he stood on immigration and immigrants. He only likes to keep them around to take advantage of them. Other than that, he'd like to get rid of them. And by immigrant, I think he means anyone who isn't of pure 100% European descent.

Steel

On October 19, three local unions of steelworkers in Pennsylvania endorsed Trump's candidacy, because he had promised that he would save the American steel industry and protect steelworkers' jobs. Then, on December 2, he said that he would block the US Steel merger with Japan's Nippon Steel. If the merger is blocked, US Steel has said that it will have to shut down many facilities and lay off thousands of workers. The steelworkers are not happy with Mr. Trump, after they gave him their vote and he double-crossed them.

Minorities, Diversity, Civil Rights

Conservative Black community leaders across the country endorsed Trump and influenced their followers to vote for him. After the election, when Trump was nominating members of his cabinet, he completely sidelined all of them, even though many Black leaders were more qualified for the cabinet positions than a lot of the cronies and TV personalities who did get nominated.

Food prices (Groceries!)

Trump also promised that he would bring down grocery prices for the average American. In August, he said:

"From the day I take the oath of office, we'll rapidly drive prices down, and make America affordable again. Prices will come down. You just watch. They'll come down, and they'll come down fast."

 It's not really clear how he would do this, especially with all the threats of tariffs he has been throwing around. In fact, in a Meet the Press interview, conducted on November 25 and aired on December 8, he said, "I won on groceries." However, later in the same interview, when asked whether he would consider it a failure of his presidency if grocery prices didn't come down, he said: 

"I don’t think so. Look, they got them up. I’d like to bring them down. It’s hard to bring things down once they’re up. You know, it’s very hard. But I think that they will."

Mm-hmm.

More to come

We've only scratched the surface on the lies and deceptions that Trump used to get elected. We have another four years to see what else he's going to pull out of his bu-- I mean, hat.

"Vote Now, Think Later"

Social media, blogs, and news stories have been full of examples of voters saying things like "I voted for Trump, but I didn't know he was going to do this. If I had known, I wouldn't have voted for him."

Clearly, he managed to sway a tiny bit over half the country into voting for him. That's how elections work, duh. But what's interesting is that the other half of the country knew exactly what was going on. They weren't fooled. 

And those who are now saying, "I voted for him, but I didn't think ..." ? THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT! YOU DIDN'T THINK!

For these people, the election slogan rattling around in their brains wasn't "Make America Great Again," it was "Vote Now, Think Later." 

What to do about it?

The majority of Americans who voted for Trump have given him carte blanche to make a wreck out of the country for the next four years. Unfortunately, thanks to you idiots, there's nothing we can do about it until 2028. Hopefully, by then you will have learned to THINK BEFORE YOU VOTE.

Another impeachment won't happen, and even if it did, it wouldn't see him removed from office. With this cabinet, an Amendment 25 removal is off the table. That leaves stroke, heart attack, or other similar scenarios. But We The People will not be part of any of these power moves. We simply have to wait it out.