What the lying president says is going on is not in fact what’s going on. But, in the sense in which Rosen uses the phrase, Trump’s saying that something is going on is “what’s going on,” because he is president and he said it, even though it’s not what’s actually going on. Reality bifurcates: “what’s going on” at any given time consists of actual events on the one hand and what Trump said on the other, and often no bridge exists between the two.
