Pseudologia Fantastica. Mythomania. Compulsive Lying Disorder. No matter what you call it, Trump seems to have it in spades! Many psychiatrists and psychologists consider it a distinct mental disorder.
CLD is not gender specific; equally, both men and women can compulsively lie. These people can’t control their lies and have no guilt about telling them, regardless of how these lies may affect themselves and others. If they are caught in a lie, and it’s thrown back in their face, they will go out of their way to continue the invention, insisting that they are speaking the truth, and convinced that they speak nothing but the truth.
Sound like anyone we know? Compulsive liars can be so good at lying that after a while it becomes harder to determine if they might actually be telling the truth. That’s where we are with Donald Trump, right now: Everything candidate Trump says is a lie (which, actually, is not true. There must be somethings he says that are true (I leave it for you in the comment section to ‘debate’ that, lol)).
The interesting note is CLD usually starts in the subject’s late teens. And here’s where it gets interesting. Since it’s an early development disease (make no mistake, CLD is a disease), in the case of Donald Trump, who has reached his 70’s, it gives some enterprising psychology candidate around 50 years of empirical data to collect, investigate, analyze, rip apart , and finally (in the name of science!) write it all up in their dissertation (The title of which, alone, would be worth the price of admission!). Someone who has the balls to request and sit through multiple interviews with Trump himself, to discuss the matter of his disorder… someone who thinks that Trump will be too narcissistic and arrogant to refuse these requests because he just has to debate the issue because he’s never wrong and he’s always right and, well, (Foot-Stamp!!) so there!!
Maybe» A Dissertation on the Pseudologia Fantastica World Self-Orbit of Subject Donald J. Trump: Liar. (That’s liar, Liar, LIAR!!!)*
Now that’s a dissertation I’d love to read!!
*Homage, a tip of the hate to Gary Trudeau and Doonsbury’s ‘Guilty, Guilty, Guilty!!!’