TACOMA (AP) – Ever the watchdog and vigilant guardian of printed truth on the internet, legendary fact-checking site Snopes.com has discovered and reported yet another gross inaccuracy coming from the deservedly-maligned and completely untrustworthy Trump administration. This time, President Trump has followed up his “#SharpieGate” assertion that Alabama could’ve been hit by a hurricane with an even less justifiable weather-related claim – that “the sky is blue”. Rigorous investigation by Snopes concludes that this questionable Trump assertion is “mostly false.”

According to Rajesh Koothrappali, Assistant Lead Prevaricator Preventer at Snopes, Trump’s trip-up was “an easy catch.”

“So Trump throws this tweet out there like it’s a fait accompli and just expects that no one will question it,” said Koothrappali. “But knowing how completely untrustworthy he is as a source, I decided to investigate the matter myself. I looked up at the sky, and it did, indeed look blue. Since that didn’t support my narrative, I decided to get to the bottom of it using unimpeachable facts and logic, so I Googled up the Wikipedia page, which described Trump’s ‘sky is blue’ statement as ‘challengeable.'”

“And indeed it is,” said Koothrappali triumphantly. “Consider this – for fully half the day, it’s night. So for half the planet, half the day, the sky is black. With cute little twinkles. And during the daylight parts of the day, it might be cloudy, so the sky is gray. During sunrises and sunsets, it’s often shades of red or orange. So you can clearly see that the sky is NOT blue, more than half of each day.”

“But even when it IS blue, is it REALLY?” questioned Koothrappali. “A little more research shows that it is NOT. A color is only truly blue if the wavelength of its light is between 450 and 495 nanometers. A spectrographic analysis of Trump’s so-called ‘blue’ sky shows that it is actually an impure mixture of many wavelengths, with a large percentage of them being either less than 450 nm or greater than 495. To call the sky ‘blue’ is a gross oversimplification of a very complex interaction of electromagnetic radiation. Anyone who would call the sky ‘blue’ is either a simpleton or a charlatan.”

“In conclusion,” Koothrappali declared, “while a ray of blue light might occasionally reach an eye unaided by instruments and detectors, it’s a very rare occurrence, and people’s unquestioning belief in the sky’s dominant color is the result of urban-legend saturation, most likely caused by watching too many Pixar movies. Therefore, we are forced to rate President Trump’s claim as ‘mostly false.'”

Koothrapppali also suggested that, although not yet conclusively rated, Trump’s “water is wet” tweet will likely also be shot down, since “wetness” is a tactile property of water, and the vast majority of the world’s ocean’s are not currently being touched by human beings, meaning that we have no scientific basis for determining the wetness of untouched water. Therefore, President On-Fire-Pants is just making stuff up.
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