know he s a narcissist. he creates these alternate realities for himself. he will say something that is false repeatedly, repeatedly, repeatedly until i think not only is he lying to his audience, to a certain extent he lies to himself in order to get things over on the people around him and also to insulate himself from any sense of responsibility or guilt for the damage he causes when he misrepresents things. you know, the interesting thing is that he is a fab ulist. he is living an incredibly luxurious lifestyle, but when you scratch away the gold paint it turns out to be paint, right? right. you tell the story, you did it recently, about this fake renoir painting. when i was at the new york times i was working on a biography of trump nation. i spent a lot of time with the president for that. at one point we were on his jet