"Abject idiocy" every day

Rob's comment:

Both Hayes and Schmidt make the same point from slightly different angles: that Trump is so stupid it's not really accurate to call him a liar. Trump actually believes most of the crap he says. When he's challenged about something, he just doubles down on the bullshit, because he's so insecure he can't admit being wrong about anything. 

Calling him a liar is not accurate. It's much worse than that. As Hayes points out, Trump isn't the ringleader in the con, he's a "mark," like millions of Republican voters, a target of the right-wing disinformation political campaign that never stops.

Trump has no real sense of the meaning or value of truth or untruth; that's not how he uses the language. Everything he says is meant to be self-serving, either personally or politically. In his mind, truth or falsity is irrelevant. That's why he doesn't quite get the fussiness scientists around him have about the facts. A guy like Anthony Fauci is a mystery to Trump.

See also Coronavirus has moved Trump from dismissing science to hating it.