According to the New York Times, both when Trump took office and when Kellyanne Conway stated her infamously dumbfounding line equating lies to "alternative facts," 1984 copies began to sell furiously and rose to Amazon's Bestseller's List.

The entire Trump administration is so similar to Orwell's chilling and unfortunately applicable masterpiece to our current political situation. So here is a list of Orwell's predictions from 1984 that have rung true.

1. "Orthodoxy means not thinking – not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness" (53)

To be a perfect, ideal member of 1984 society, one blindly follows and accepts what the government says without protest. The only way they get news is from their cherished leader or a similar news source that their leader also watches. They loyally follow and endlessly love their Big Brother.

2. "...a mug of milkless Victory coffee" (50)

In the world of 1984, most of their goods are named "Victory _____." But just calling something "Victory" does not actually make a Victory. For instance, by saying "we will have so much winning if I get elected that you many be bored with winning" does not actually make a "win."

3. "The Lottery, with its weekly pay-out of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the proles [ordinary folk] paid serious attention... [But] the prizes were largely imaginary" (85)

Apart from the Lottery, the government also produces other entertainment like bad movies and songs. It's meant to distract the citizens from acknowledging their deteriorating quality of life. Much like Trump using Twitter to start feuds for no reason to distract us from the real problem- that Russia meddled in our elections.

4. "Everything faded away into shadow- would in which finally, even the date of the year had become uncertain" (44)

In the book, they are constantly re-editing history and the past to make sure the lies the government is telling in the present aligns and makes the party look infallible. Sounds like the constant denying Spicer does daily to justify his unjustifiable Big Brother.

5. "We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it" (263)

But Trump should. It's embarrassing how long he has held onto a job he never wanted in the first place.

So many people have stated that he would not be running for President if he did not really want to help the country, but that statement is almost as stupid as the President himself. He did it for an ego boost; everyone knows the Presidency is the highest office one can achieve.

6. "One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship" (263)

"Give Trump a chance" they said. "He might surprise us," they said.

7. "2 + 2 = 5"

Orwell uses math as a motif because math is stable and constant. There can only be one answer in math, but in our dystopian world, it seems like that is not the case. Paradoxically, facts are disputable.

8. "Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them"

For instance, how Republicans say they are Christian, but only use the Bible's teachings when it boosts their argument rather than following its teachings 100% of the time, as it says to do.

"Love thy neighbor." If you are a real Christian, you will understand this to be without conditions. Its NOT "love thy neighbor, EXCEPT when they are Muslim, gay, female, or anything that does not look like you."

You cannot be both a Trump supporter and a Christian, without using doublethink.

Orwell's book spirals much further down into totalitarianism's necessities like torture, mass espionage, "re-education," and endless war. We need to resist now to prevent this mess from turning into 1984.