This Particular Trump Lie Was Especially Revealing Last Night

We cannot and will not burn oil forever. Which of these candidates has a plan for the future, and which of them is trying to lie his way to the finish line 11 days from now? If you have trouble reading this message, [view it in a browser](. [We Started a Club. And We Want You to Be a Part of It.]( We at Esquire cordially invite you to join Esquire Select, and when you do, we’ll send you a gift. (It’s a magazine). But it’s not just a magazine you’ll get. With a membership to Esquire Select, you get unlimited access to Esquire.com, including The Politics Blog with Charles P. Pierce. You get a monthly discount to some of our editors’ favorite brands. You get a members-only, weekly newsletter highlighting the best of Esquire right now.[Read More]( [The One Good Thing About Trump's Lies and Cynicism Last Night]( Everyone's got their own con they're running, the president believes, just like him. You could see this at work towards the end, when Trump tried to "get" Biden on the issue of whether the United States would at some point transition away from burning oil as a source of energy. In the postgame, desperate conservatives seized on this as The Decisive Moment That Biden Lost Texas, itself an indictment of Trump's position. But even in the moment, Trump vocalized his cynical intent, offering meta-commentary as it was happening about the political fallout of Biden's supposed gaffe. Trump sees this entirely as a political cudgel—"Will you remember that, Texas? Pennsylvania? Oklahoma? Ohio?" he said—because he does not care about any of this. He has no climate or energy plan—or infrastructure plan, or healthcare plan, or much of anything else. He's just trying to lie his way through each day. But there was actually a fruitful discussion to be had here about the reality of our situation. 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