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Donald Trump has taken his obsession with crafting falsehoods about Democratic nominee Kamala Harris to the next level, penning his own fan fiction on Tuesday about the vice president.

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[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 3 points 3 months ago

You do realize we're 'arguing' because we're trying to figure out how big a liar Trump is, right? And you're kinda sorta making me defend Trump here. I'm sending you the bill from my shrink. :P

Yeah I don't really know how we got here. I get stuck into proving a point sometimes, I think it's an autism thing. I don't know. I'll ask my shrink.

I've gotta still mildly disagree. His bullshit used to have at least a whiff of believability and plausible deniability, even if you had to dig several dozen layers to find it. But he's getting older. Cognitive decline, you know. Bless his heart. Now he's just letting the shit spill out of the diaper just to see who'll come by to clean it up.

I don't know. Like the fake civil war memorial suggests, he's always been perfectly fine with making things up completely I think. Don't forget he invented at least two fake personas to talk as in efforts to talk himself up, too ^[1]. I think he's always had no problem disregarding reality completely. I could probably dig out more examples but like you said earlier - this is turning into a pretty meaningless exercise!

And I definitely do agree that his cognitive abilities seem to be on the decline. In fact it was reported on only earlier today ^[2]