Of course they lied. I haven't trusted anything any US department says or does, ever since Chicago O'Hare's butt monkeys deported me for the capital crime of trying to take a holiday there. (British born and bred, btw.)
When was PHP ever *not* a primed yet unexploded bomb? I mean, seriously, it's the drug-addled street bum of programming languages -- according to me, at least.
10% brighter per year? Is that a sliding scale based on the brightness of the current year? Woah, I'm going to need sunglasses to even cope with the nightlife at that rate...
He does, and hopefully by medical means, rather than bricking almost everything that the western world has spent more decades than I've seen constructing on an international level. I hope he gets declared unfit for doing the presidenting.