Trump: "The person who got the Nobel Prize called today and said,

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11. I know Trump is a prodigious liar, but he is speaking the truth here

That is to say, there is no way he would make up something as outrageous as that because it is so easily checked.

The only sensible explanation is that this really did happen IN TRUMP'S FEEBLE BRAIN.

Just like Portland is a war zone and all the other crazy things he has said lately. This guy is really and truly insane.

There have been many cases in the past year where he has recounted stories that are all of the formula "The other day, somebody came up to me and said 'Sir, you are a genius. etc.' " None of these things ever happened in the real world, but I do believe they were very real to him.

I have a family member who has advanced age-related dementia -- pretty much at the same level as Trump's. A few weeks ago, he started talking about a high school sweetheart he had seen recently and he was thinking about proposing marriage to her. He is in a memory care facility, so it is usually best just to go along with these false memories rather that raise the anxiety level by arguing about it. But in this case, he persisted with this story for 2 weeks. I tried to reason with him. Eventually I showed him the lady's obituary from 10 years ago. He insisted he had seen her only 2 weeks ago, but gradually came to understand that was not true. I hated to disappoint him, but this pending marriage had become an obsession and he was no longer participating in the activities. SInce then, he has moved on and is back to a more normal pattern.

These manufactured memories can be very real when the brain is as far gone as Trump's is. Shame on the media for not challenging these things. Will any of them actually contact María Corina Machado and then report on Trump's delusions?