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LOL That is a fact. Trump's one consistency is that he doesn't tell the truth about virtually anything.

Republican from New York

Donald Trump is the president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016. He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015 and 2017 Lie of the Year. He received a bachelor's degree in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. In February 2017, he officially announced he is running for the 2020 Republican nomination for president.

The PolitiFact scorecard

True 34 (5%) (34%)
Mostly True 77 (10%) (77)
Half True 102 (14%) (102)
Mostly False 156 (21%) (156)
False 260 (35%) (260)
Pants on Fire 109 (15%)(109)

https://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/

29% on the True side. 71% on the False side. And that's on only the ones Politifact has looked at.

This one is from two years ago, the Trump results are remarkably consistent.

Trump’s Lies vs. Your Brain
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The sheer frequency, spontaneity and seeming irrelevance of his lies have no precedent. Nixon, Reagan and Clinton were protecting their reputations; Trump seems to lie for the pure joy of it. A whopping 70 percent .. http://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/ .. of Trump’s statements that PolitiFact checked during the campaign were false, while only 4 percent were completely true, and 11 percent mostly true. (Compare that to the politician Trump dubbed “crooked,” Hillary Clinton: Just 26 percent .. http://www.politifact.com/personalities/hillary-clinton/ .. of her statements were deemed false.)
P - Those who have followed Trump’s career say his lying isn’t just a tactic, but an ingrained habit.
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What happens when a lie hits your brain? The now-standard model was first proposed .. http://www.danielgilbert.com/Gillbert%20(How%20Mental%20Systems%20Believe).PDF .. by Harvard University psychologist Daniel Gilbert more than 20 years ago. Gilbert argues that people see the world in two steps. First, even just briefly, we hold the lie as true: We must accept something in order to understand it. For instance, if someone were to tell us—hypothetically, of course .. http://www.politifact.com/virginia/statements/2016/nov/29/donald-trump/trumps-pants-fire-serious-voter-fraud-claim-virgin/ —that there had been serious voter fraud in Virginia during the presidential election, we must for a fraction of a second accept that fraud did, in fact, take place. Only then do we take the second step, either completing the mental certification process (yes, fraud!) or rejecting it (what? no way). Unfortunately, while the first step is a natural part of thinking—it happens automatically and effortlessly—the second step can be easily disrupted. It takes work: We must actively choose to accept or reject each statement we hear. In certain circumstances, that verification simply fails to take place. As Gilbert writes, human minds, “when faced with shortages of time, energy, or conclusive evidence, may fail to unaccept the ideas that they involuntarily accept during comprehension.”
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"When we are overwhelmed with false, or potentially false, statements, our brains pretty quickly become so overworked that we stop trying to sift through everything."
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Consistency points to habitual, consistent with Gilbert's now-standard model.

Trump's cult-followers have stopped trying to find truth,