I mean, couldn't he at least just pretend to know stuff?

This whole incident proves that he thinks facts are something to be made up when you need them, and that lying is standard operating procedure. Not only does it not bother him to lie, he actually boasts about it! This is what our country has fallen to. The rest of the world is laughing, watching, and rooting for us to fail for electing such an abomination.

We are already the laughing stalk of the world for letting the electoral collage put him in office, goes to prove that your vote really doesn't count

He pretends to know, not just stuff, but that facts don't matter if he doesn't like them. If he started to show respect for truth and democracy at this point, where would it get him? He'd risk losing his base, alienate all the Republicans who've put their necks on the line to cover for him, and make it really hard to stay in office.

He needs to keep lying, and to keep bragging about it for awhile longer. I'm sure he'll wink and shrug in the end, because he's been relatively "honest" about being a fraud all along, really.

Isn't this just par for the course? He's been making shit up since he started running.

Although i suppose he doesn't often brag about it. And this was with the prime minister of freakin canada. Now that i think of it, what the actual fuck is wrong with this guy?!😨

And where are all the usual suspects who will defend whatever trump does or says as a tremendous victory? Noticeably absent in this thread...

I found out about this watching the press conference today. It sort of blew my mind. Largely because I saw Sanders defend it-- then I heard Trump bragging that he just made it up.

I mean if Sanders didn't defend it, Trump could have just written it off as balls. Which would have been bad in another way. The POTUS should know....

But this.

Information he [i]had[/i] to have known would be almost immediately checked.

That shows not only a willingness and awareness of lying, it's an indication Trump either thinks he's clever or is stupid enough to believe that's how lasting change is accomplished.

starting to wonder whether Mr.T. and Dubya are golfing buddies.