And I used to find it amazing that, when asked, George W. Bush couldn't think of any mistakes he had made during his first four years.

Then his name would have appeared on the honors list he claimed to be on.

The Wharton School is the very prestigious graduate program at Penn. He got an undergraduate degree in Econ (pshhh) at Penn and even though it was affiliated with Wharton, he did not get an MBA AT Wharton. Big difference.

Also, when he attended, you didn't need to be a top student to get in as you do now. I applied (because my Dad went there) and was accepted with a 3.2 GPA from high school about six years after he did. Went to Cal instead.

...then saying the degree is from Kellogg.
Same school. Very different connotation.

Although if he had Corn Flakes for breakfast, he would say he went to Kellogg...

It definitely made me laugh!!!

Like "beautiful" and other words he uses to embellish and exaggerate things weirdly and well beyond the bounds of reality.

treats you unfairly 95% of the time." He never gets called on what percentage of those anecdotes? The press just lets most of those go. He'll just say he can't give them the name. It's funny though, because a lot of the big players do not call him sir on the phone or in private. I can't prove it, but some guys like that just would not! Not if he needs them and they know it.

"Sir" stuff.

He said something along the lines of he’s received three or four calls from people crediting hydroxychloroquine with saving their lives. Fucking really? Random people just dialing in to the oval to personally thank the president. Just pick up the phone, yeah it’s Joe Magablowski, wanna thank President Trump for his recommendation on hydroxychloroquine. Ok sir, we’ll put you right through.

in stark terms of his own ego needs: what feeds it versus anything that denies him the gratification of praise. A normal person would say something like, "I know not everyone agrees with me on (this or that)" or "I've received some criticism in the press, but..."

In an environment like that, it's no wonder even highly principled people (I can only think of two: Dr. Fauci and Chris Wray) become paralyzed in fear and afraid to express themselves, because Trump is hyper attuned to the slightest critique.

that's to make the calculation sound more believable, so the dipshits listening to him think, "Wow, he's got it down to the exact percentage point, so he must have analyzed this statistically so it has to be true!"

You nailed it

The idea is that the degree of "accuracy" of your answer implies the amount of certainty for that answer.

For instance, if I say it is 350 miles from Miami to Jacksonville, that communicates a different level of confidence than if I said 346.7 miles. The latter is so specific that it implies I made a special measurement to come to that figure.

In Engineering, this is an absolute no-no and we are taught to avoid such implied accuracy beyond what our math can prove.

However, if you are a conman, the inverse is true. Using more specific numbers lets you imply a legitimacy that simply does not exist.

This is guy who would take a half hour with a calculator to figure out that 47 in 50 is 94%!

Which might be okay in an honest person. His distinction between 94% and 95% would be hilarious if it wasn't just more of his typical make it up as he goes.

1% of bullshit is still bullshit.

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Not by violence, because I find that distasteful and it would make him a martyr.

But I hope every day to see him have a stroke so severe that it pops his eyes from his skull.

If that makes me part of his fictional 95%, then I'm ok with that.

87% of statistics are just made up on the spot. In this case, 95%.

but liars figure.
94%, maybe 95% of statistics are made up.

The man is so incoherent and empty the only message is Donald Trump. I have spoken to several American Sign Language interpreters who generally tell me the man is so incoherent they cannot follow him. I have a tendency to watch interpreters and never seen him with an ASL interpreters.

+ i thought Gw sounded stupid.