(02-16-2017 03:41 PM)JustAnotherAustinOwl Wrote:  Not the most important thing, but why does Trump keep saying (at least two times today) that he had one of the biggest electoral wins in history? I mean it's patently false. And it doesn't really matter other than that he keeps lying about it. He's weirdly obsessed with this particular "alternative fact". Makes me wonder about his overall mental state.

I've said this a number of times. My best guess is that Trump is an ESFJ on a Myers Briggs personality type indicator.

F ('feeler') vs. T ('thinker' or 'truth-based' on decisions, if that makes more sense)

He may be extreme in some of these preferences.

At any rate. Feelers react to their emotions and how they feel. At some point they have faith in what they believe to be true. While it may or may not be fact based, any reasonable (or unreasonable) rationalization that supports their belief is adequate. If I'm accurate in this assessment, he is not alone in this preference, although he may be one of the most extreme cases out there.

Continuing to fixate on what is, in this case, an inconsequential statement/belief, distracts from more serious issues.

At this point, people bring this particular issue up if they particularly want to irritate him, and to keep the non-relevant issue active.

Pick your battles. His personality may annoy you, but his actions, good/bad, right/wrong, are much more important.

Someone may firmly believe the moon landings were 'staged'. If they are donating $2,000,000 to your favorite charity, who cares? By the same token, if they are a serial killer, also, who cares?