Painful listening. Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait did the interviewing - if you can call it that. Setting was the Chicago Economic Club. Partisan audience. 1-2 hours of Trump rambling on making up fake stories about conversations with business, political, foreign leaders designed to demonstrate his financial prowess. No attempt to fact check. I never fully realized his fantastical imagination and ability to concoct stories as he rambles on. Wish he’d chosen to work on Broadway or TV instead of seeking to lead the country. Nonstop shit. Mike Mckee would have nailed him. Just outrageous Bloomberg!
Example: “Google is so unfair to me. I get twice as many negative stories as positive. Everybody knows that. So I called the head of Google up the other day and told him …”
Who the fuck is ‘the head of Google”? Whom did you speak to? What day? What did they say? Will he (they’re always “he”s) substantiate your account?
No fricken attempt to verify. An hour+ long PR disaster.
Micklethwait = Lightweight.
Added: I’ve known some really good liars in my lifetime. Different styles. But the best one I ever knew (a woman and dear friend) was a very fast talker. Taught me some things! She’d learned to lie as a kid - a survival strategy of sorts. I guess fast talking makes you appear more certain of your “facts”, better versed - or whatever. It also makes it harder for others to interrupt and ask questions or to focus their questions on what was said.
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