Donald Trump's words bear about as much relation to reality as the Easter Bunny

Donald Trump’s AP interview was a reminder of how delusional, narcissistic, and untethered from the truth Trump is. It was like a greatest hits album of the popular vote loser’s lies—which means the fact checkers had a lot of ground to cover, but most of it was familiar ground. That, by the way, is one of the reasons the media needs to stop quibbling about whether these are lies or just mistakes or falsehoods: Trump repeats them long after he’s been corrected.

Trump’s claim that he saved $725 million on the F-35? It’s not just a lie—the price of those planes was coming down before Trump—it’s a lie he’s told at least 14 times.

China hasn’t been manipulating its currency “from the time I took office”? About that: “China had not devalued its currency for about two years prior to his election.”

Companies like Ford and General Motors are creating jobs “only because of you”?

Trump likes to claim undue credit for corporate decisions that were made before he was elected president. We keep a running list of such claims here. [...] Ford’s decision to expand in Michigan rather than in Mexico had more to do with the company’s long-term goals than with the administration. Ford outlined these goals in a contract it negotiated with the United Auto Workers in 2015.

And that first 100 days in office that has spurred such a round of frantic activity from the White House, including things like big interviews with the AP? Just “an artificial barrier” that “the press keeps talking about,” according to Trump. Except:

In a speech on Oct. 22, Trump issued an unusually detailed 100-day-plan of action, which he called the “Contract with the American Voter.” The Fact Checker has used the plan as a template for tracking in campaign promises. Trump told the AP that “somebody put out the concept of a hundred-day plan” — but that was Trump himself.

Trump lies. He lies about his own words, he lies about Elijah Cummings calling him a great president, he lies about his own cruel policies toward immigrants, he lies about terrorism. He lies. Constantly, confidently, brazenly.