Exaggeration

[ck4829]

According to Trump; he won the biggest electoral college victory ever, he had the biggest crowds at his inauguration ever, he would have won the popular vote if every vote not for him was the result of voter fraud, he knows more about Daesh than the generals, and he was eating the best cake ever when he ordered some missiles to blow up some cardboard boxes in Syria.

But why?

Well, here's this...

Psychoanalysis considered that neurotic exaggerations were the products of displacement – overvaluations for example being used to maintain a repression elsewhere. Thus a conflict over ambivalence may be resolved by means of exaggerating one's love for a person so as to keep an unconscious hatred in further check.

The grandiose sense of self-importance observed in narcissists also uses exaggeration to thwart any recognition of a moderate fallibility, seeing any departure from complete success as total and hopeless failure.

"Self-dramatization, theatricality, and exaggerated expression of emotion" can be observed in those with histrionic personality disorder and other Cluster B personality disorders; while "catastrophizing" is associated with depressive, neurotic or paranoid behavior – focusing on the worst possible outcome, however unlikely, or thinking that a situation is unbearable or impossible when it is really just uncomfortable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exaggeration#Pathology

Now it makes sense.

[Angry Dragon]

1. just a sick man

[Skittles]

3. what does that say about the people who VOTED for him?

seriously, I don't even care WHY - just the fact that they voted for a SICK MAN to be president

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. He wont even tell the truth when it is to his favor, which is rare but even

then he has to exaggerate and embellish and carry on like a 3rd grader.

We knew this about him 20 years ago, some of us did anyway.