Trump is not even a good liar.

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1. he's a walking, talking exploit

his personality "works" because it exploits some basic bugs in many peoples' algorithms for understanding other people.

most notably, people know someone's lying when they act sheepish or admit it or look like they're trying to weasel out of an awkward situation. if someone reacts angrily and seemingly confidently when challenged, and doubles down on the lie, people think they must be telling the truth because that's how they think a truth-teller might react, and certainly not how a liar would react when caught.

donnie learned to exploit this by simply never showing any signs of acknowledging he's lying, or of acknowledging he's wrong, or of acknowledging anything adverse to him.

so many people fall for this again and again, because that heuristic works pretty darn well on the vast majority of people. but it fails miserably with donnie because he will *never* admit anything adverse.


and it's not just the republican core that falls for it. the media gives him far more chances than they'd ever give anyone else who lied anything close to this level. certainly not any democrat.