As had been hinted in contemporaneous reporting, the delay in convicted felon former President Trump taking the stage at Wednesday’s National Association of Black Journalists panel interview was not due to some audio equipment issues – ones that were minor and resolved well before the fat bastard finally sat down, but because there was a standoff over whether interviewers Rachel Scott and Kadia Goba could fact-check him in real-time, NABJ president Ken Lemon tells Axios.

“[Trump’s team] said, ‘Well, can you not fact check? He’s not going to take the stage if you fact-check,'” said Lemon, adding Trump only caved when Lemon was ready to cancel. “I was prepared to go on stage to craft a statement, saying he decided not to go on stage because of fact-checking… we couldn’t compromise on that.” Lemon also said Trump’s team eventually asked NABJ not to post the fact-checking on its social media platforms or allow moderator Rachel Scott to disclose that there would be fact-checking. That’s a lot of uses of the phrase “fact-checking” when in reality it’s simply a euphemism for “calling out bullshit lies and white nationalist demagoguery.”

Really that’s what this is: Trump did not want to be called out in public in a situation he otherwise was not in control of and he almost fucked off until Ken Lemon called his bluff. Describing this as “a dispute over fact-checking” obfuscates this very naked example of the Orange Slob’s cuntish sense of entitlement to create his own reality crumbling under the stricter demands of actual reality.