I think Trump believes his weird lies are true

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2. He lives in a world where he can simply declare the world is the way he wishes it to be,

then berate anyone who disagrees until he has enough people around him saying yes, absolutely, the world is exactly as you say it is. And anyone who still disagrees is deemed an enemy and punished severely.

In anyone else, everyone would recognize this as a form of insanity, or in any event a remarkably maladaptive strategy for coping with reality.

But he has 30% or so of the country behind him, thanks to a pathetically obliging media, so he has gotten away with it for far, far too long.