Is Trump really the politician who’s been treated the worst?

Of all the lies President Trump has told, and there has been a metric shit ton of them, this week he told the biggest lie of all:

Trump: “No politician has been treated worse or more unfairly.”

No politician treated worse or more unfairly? Hmm… So, Trump has been treated worse than Lincoln? Worse than Kennedy? And Nelson Mandella? Worse than Romania’s Nicolea Caucesucu? He and his wife faced the firing squad at the same time. Worse than Khadaffi? Before an angry mob shot him in the head, they beat and raped him then sodomized him with a bayonet, then dragged his lifeless corpse through the streets by horseback. Worse than Obama? Every Fox News rube questioned his legitimacy as president, insisting he wasn’t a Christian American… but rather a Muslim from Kenya.

Now, where would people get the stupid idea that Obama is a Mus—? Oh right, from the politician whose been treated the worst in history.

Here’s the thing: I hate being lied to. And the worst part of being lied to is… that lying doesn’t look any different from telling the truth. And when you discover that someone has tricked you, you swear to get off tinder. Even more so, what lying does is it erodes your confidence in reality… it breeds distrust… it makes you paranoid. You can no longer trust that which you see with your own eyes.

However, my faith in government, the institutions that bind society, the stock market or the security I feel … are not diminished because Lance Armstrong oxygenates his blood with the stem cells from dead prostitutes.

Sheesh! It’s no wonder he lied.

Oh. Sorry. You probably didn’t know the scientific specifics of his doping. I should have eased you into that revelation.

The President’s lies however, DO erode our confidence in the institutions of government… we feel less safe, less free… we worry about our money… and it’s a slippery slope… before you know it, America’s reality mirror’s Gary Busey’s insanity.

According to the latest research, people start lying as early as 6 months old, when they fake cry in-order to get fed. Trump’s his biographer reports he lied while still in the womb.

Trump: “This is the biggest uterus.”

A 2011 study says everyone lies – on average – as much as five times a day. And that number is even higher the months when Cosmopolitan magazine asks guys: “How big is your penis?” Here in Hollywood, where I live, the average number of lies is nearly twice as much, thanks to the question: “Are you a producer?”

OK. So, let’s go through the reasons people lie:

First, people lie to themselves. It’s a self-deception meant to inflate the ego. Part of your-self worth is wrapped up in how good you feel about yourself…

Trump: “I have the best words.”

Some people lie in-order to preserve or enhance their social standing. Not only do they want to feel good about themselves, it’s vital that other people must also be in awe of them, too.

Trump: “I turn on one of the networks, and they show an empty field, I'm like, wait a minute. I made a speech. I looked out, the field was, it looked like a million, million and a half people.”

The National Park Service estimated the crowd size at 250,000.

Lies like the number of people at the inauguration, are a tactic of deception that misrepresents the state of the world in order to exploit the expected cooperation received from a particular constituency.

In other words, Trump’s voters demand the biggest and best… So, in order to be their choice, a candidate has to give that to them.

Then, there are lies people tell to keep themselves out of trouble.

Trump: (re: former FBI head, Jim Comey) “He's a showboat, he's a grand-stander, the FBI has been in turmoil. You know that, I know that. Everybody knows that. You take a look at the FBI a year ago, it was in virtual turmoil. Less than a year ago, it hasn't recovered from that.”

People also lie in order to preserve or strengthen an alliance… say, with a group of angry white men, whose vote you want

Trump: (at 2nd Presidential debate; to Hillary Clinton) “If I win, I am going to instruct my attorney general to have a special prosecutor to look into your situation. There’s never been so many lies, so much deception. We’re going to have a special prosecutor.” He added, that if he was President, she’d “be in jail.”

Finally, some people lie in order to appear to dominate opponents, peers, friends, business associates, other political leaders. You see, there are people who derive their own self-worth by the significance and brilliance of their achievements. Even if they have to make those achievements up.

Trump: I’ll be the "greatest job producer God has ever created.

Jon Hotchkiss is a 14 time Emmy nominee for comedy writing (Bill Maher, Penn & Teller, Rosie O’Donnell) and producing and hosts the series, Be Less Stupid, which you can see HERE free.