We’ve all heard it said. Perhaps we’ve said it ourselves.

All politicians are liars. How do you know when a pol is lying? When his lips are moving. Yuk, yuk, yuk.

Well, thanks to the New York Times, we have an interesting catalogue of the lies Donald J. Trump has told since being inaugurated president of the United States.

Take time to read it here.

I shudder to think how long the list will be at the end of the president’s current term in office. As it is, just 154 days into his presidency, Trump has compiled an impressive list of prevarications.

As David Leonardt and Stuart Thompson note in their op-ed essay:

“President Trump’s political rise was built on a lie (about Barack Obama’s birthplace). His lack of truthfulness has also become central to the Russia investigation, with James Comey, the former director of the F.B.I., testifying under oath about Trump’s ‘lies, plain and simple.’

“There is simply no precedent for an American president to spend so much time telling untruths. Every president has shaded the truth or told occasional whoppers. No other president — of either party — has behaved as Trump is behaving. He is trying to create an atmosphere in which reality is irrelevant.”

The most astonishing aspect of this, to my way of thinking, is how Trump’s core supporters continue to accept his lying as being OK.

Hey, they insist, the president is “telling it like it is.”