Donald Trump is a liar... so say the FBI, NSA and the UK

against his predecessor by FBI director James Comey and NSA chief, Admiral Mike Rogers, was explicit.

Even more clear-cut was their response to his White House claims that British spies carried out the wiretap to avoid any “American fingerprints on it.”

Appearing before the powerful House Intelligence Committee, both Comey and Rogers agreed with the UK’s government’s response that Trump’s claims were “utterly ridiculous” and “nonsense”.

Trump’s offence has caused huge embarrassment but has there been any apology from the President or admittance he got it wrong? No. Far from it. Meeting German Chancellor Angela Merkel, another ally he seems hellbent on alienating, Trump insisted there was nothing to be sorry for. He said: “All we did was quote a certain very talented legal mind,” a commentator on (of course) Fox News. Was anyone surprised? Not at all. Little more than 60 days into his time in the Oval Office, this sort of behaviour has become the norm in America. His actions have led to the FBI not only calling Trump, pictured, a liar but to them launching an investigation into his election campaign to see if “any crimes” were committed over its links to Russia. Unsurprisingly his Republican party has been keen to shift the interest away from the President. Instead they are trying to paint those who leaked the information of Moscow’s meddling as the real villains. If they’d have been around during the Nixon era, they’d have said the whistleblower Deep Throat was the real scandal not Watergate. It is as though Trump is running around with a box of matches as the White House burns, while his party are demanding to know who called the fire brigade.

The President’s pathological inability to accept responsibility is just the peak of a trend. American politics is suffering from an epidemic of powerful people who never, ever admit to making a mistake.

In the President’s mind nothing he does or says is wrong, whether it’s his abiding false claim that he won the popular vote or his assertion that the historically low murder rate is at a record high.

No error is ever admitted. And there is never anything to apologise for. He lies in ways that no American politician ever has before.

Whether it be about John F. Kennedy’s assassination, Obama’s birthplace, America’s allies, 9/11, ISIS, the Iraq War, voter fraud, groping women, creating jobs, the border wall, unemployment, immigration or charitable donations, he has fibbed without redress about them all. Alternative facts,some may argue.

Even God is not immune. Trump said the Almighty made the rain stop at his inauguration when he spoke “and then it became really sunny.” I should know it rained on me throughout.

His untruths are so great keeping track of them ranks as an American pastime alongside baseball and country fairs.

But all jokes aside the president, the world’s most powerful man, is a liar. The States cannot hesitate any longer to find how serious his latest untruths are, or when real trouble arises, it will not just be America’s future at stake.

The President’s pathological inability to accept responsibility is just the peak of a trend.