In one of the opening battles of the Republican presidential primary, former President Donald Trump has positioned himself as the only White House GOP hopeful who won't cut Americans' Social Security and Medicare benefits. But it's an absurd proposition; he's made similar promises in the past, and they were lies.
Trump runs on protecting entitlement programs because it's politically expedient, and because spending is uninteresting to him. But when he was in office, he demonstrated that he had no problem screwing over voters on the issue.
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