What if Trump believes everything he's telling us

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

By Ezra Klein / The New York Times Imagine you’re Donald Trump — or maybe you’re one of Donald Trump’s political advisers or kids or someone who doesn’t want to lose the midterms and have his crypto and AI trades investigated by congressional Democrats — and you’re planning out the State of the Union address.

What would you do?

Well, you’d probably start with a problem that you need to solve: The issues that got you elected in 2024 have turned into huge vulnerabilities in 2026.

Go back to February 2025: Immigration is your strongest issue. All those weenie liberals looking at your approval ratings get it right there in Nate Silver’s poll tracker. Your net approval on immigration is around 10 percentage points. That means 10% more of the country approves of the job you’re doing than disapproves of it.

https://www.heraldnet.com/2026/02/27/klein-what-if-trump-believes-everything-hes-telling-us/

[Ocelot II]

1. That's quite possible. He's surrounded by yes-men who tell him what he wants to believe,

and he's a black hole of narcissistic need who desperately wants to believe he's wonderful in every way. And he's getting senile on top of it. So I do think he believes his own bullshit, because if he had to accept the truth he'd decompensate spectacularly.

[doc03]

2. I think Trump could pass a lie detector test. Like George Castanza said if

you believe it, it is not a lie.

[FakeNoose]

3. Except he knows he's lying

One of his favorite sayings is, "If you tell a lie often enough, and say it loud enough, people start to believe you."
That makes him the biggest, most cynical, lying asshole in the world.
The media keeps letting him think he's getting away with it too.

[Skittles]

4. Trump's entire reality is I, ME, MY

he literally cannot understand or tolerate anything that deviates from what his bloated ego will tolerate