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While the so-called president was busy accusing the news media of reporting “fake” news during his speech to CPAC on Friday, he, as reported in Friday’s edition of the New York Times, made five false claims and two misleading ones.

In light of trump’s veracity, or abysmal lack thereof, it’s worth considering the advice of Brian Narelle, as offered in the letters to the editor section of the today’s Santa Rosa Press Democrat, who said “I think we could all benefit from a Trump-English Dictionary. It would be simple to create. Just reverse everything he says. ‘Senate Democrats have screwed things up royally’ means his administration is screwing things up royally. ‘The 9th Circuit Court is in chaos and turmoil’ means his administration is in chaos and turmoil. ‘The dishonest media’ means they have been reporting his lies. In this new political landscape, up is down and left is right. This explains why I literally feel dizzy every time Donald Trump speaks.”

Given the nature and intensity of trump’s attacks and accusations, on any number of subjects, it’s hard not to see parallels with the concept of projection–a theory of psychology defined by Britannica https://www.britannica.com/topic/projection-psychology  as “a form of defense in which unwanted feelings are displaced onto another person, where they then appear as a threat from the external world. A common form of projection occurs when an individual, threatened by his own angry feelings, accuses another of harboring hostile thoughts.”

And then there’s his hypocrisy: It seems ironic to listen to trump denounce the FBI over “leaks,” when it was barely a few months ago that he was relishing in the leaking of John Podesta’s , and others’ emails to the press.

None of this seems to faze his followers however, who appear to have been given a slow-acting form of Kool-Aid that hasn’t yet kicked in. If and when it finally does, I wonder how the orange-tinged golden boy will handle diminished adoration?