So much of Trump gets lost down the memory hole that it’s difficult to keep some perspective at times. It is hard enough to remember what was said on the Access Hollywood tape, never mind what he later said about it. Trump barely apologized, he barely acknowledged the reality. In the 90 second video put out as his “apology,” he was done apologizing by the thirty-second mark and into saying it was a distraction when he hit ;45 of the video. Two weeks later, he was telling people it didn’t sound like him on the tape.

Nothing “bad” is ever real in Trump’s world. Remember, his father taught him one lesson. In life, you are either a winner or a loser, which has to be right up there with all-time shittiest advice ever given by a parent. How about this, sometimes today’s “loser” is tomorrow’s winner, because each day is a new chance to prove oneself.”?

But it has come to the point where people around Trump are afraid to address what we know as “reality” because Trump creates this little bubble in which he walks, the ultimate winner. He won the election, after all. According to Yahoo News, interviewing Trump’s biographer:

He does not know. Now, whether he has managed to successfully convince himself or whether from the get-go he was so focused on hearing what he wanted to hear, he is absolutely certain. Absolutely certain that he won the election and that if he did not win it, it could only be that it was stolen from him. And that everybody else also sees it that way. So this is delusional, which is the word I use fairly often in the book.

Trump is not psychologically well, which is different that psychiatrically well (though they are not mutually exclusive) or neurologically well. He may have all kinds of medical issues, but his biggest injury is his psychological makeup, one that will not accept that anything “bad” can happen to him because he is clearly “a winner.”

In the Yahoo interview, they go on to say:

I kept waiting for someone in the book to just go out to him and say “You lost.”

When you haven’t been in his presence, it’s very hard then to actually describe for someone the fact that he is incapable of listening. He just doesn’t hear anything that he doesn’t want to hear. He’s unable to acknowledge any deviation, any slightest departure, any merest qualification of something different than what he thinks or wants to think.

So no one has just gone up to him and said, “Sir, you lost this election”?

Exactly so. You cannot say anything to Trump that he doesn’t want to hear. Everybody knows that. So to do that would mark you as incompetent or a fool or a silly person. It just doesn’t happen.

We are talking about the former president of the United States as if he is a first-grader in the counselor’s office, trying to nip a problem right in the bud. But this is who Trump is. He will never believe he lost that election. Moreover, if people close to him start telling him the truth, like – for example, if Eric starts telling Trump, “Dad, you lost, just get over it.” Eric will be disowned, he’ll be dead to Trump.

He creates his own reality. And it’s a damned sick one.

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