Much has been said about how President Donald Trump’s claims often don’t correspond with reality, but according to Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman , it’s inaccurate to say that Trump is merely lying. Instead, there is an alarmingly “extreme” reason Trump and his MAGA followers reject objective fact. As Krugman explained on Thursday, MAGA is characterized by a denial of reality. With all this in mind, writes Krugman, “What Trump and his supporters hate most of all is reality. “Totalitarians, however,” writes Krugman, “denied that objective facts existed.