This has nothing to do with honesty. The Left is at all out war with America. The have decided that because they lost and their cocoon of reality has been broken, they will do everything in their power to disrupt normalcy in America until they get their way. We saw this with Bush - every day, and now they understand just how out of power they are and they are going nuts.
Unlike Bush and the other RINOs, Trump feeds off of their unhinged behavior and sets them up for one strategic spike after another. He is unfazed by them frothing at the mouth, he is unfazed by their collaborators in the media, and he is actually doing what he said he would do. Pretty funny watching the permanent political class squirm with someone who is going to get things done ignoring them.