The Revelation Of The Small Lie

 Try not to imagine Trump’s idea of Sean Connery’s brogue:

The president was hawking his new Trump International Golf Links in Aberdeenshire when he launched into an attempt at a Scottish accent, complete with a tale about the late actor's supposed intervention on his behalf — the accuracy of which is widely questioned.

"I just want to thank everybody. This has been an unbelievable development. The land, they said, couldn't get zoned, it was an impossibility," Trump began before deploying his accent.

"And Sean Connery said: 'Let the bloody bloke build his golf course.' Once he said that, everything came into line."

Trump's story has been thoroughly debunked by people who actually know what happened.

Martin Ford, the Aberdeenshire councillor who chaired the planning committee that initially shot down Trump's application for the golf course, didn't mince words when he torched the former president's fantasy just days after Connery's death in 2020.

"Mr Connery was not involved in the due process that led to the granting of planning permission," Ford told the Guardian.

Notable not because it’s a lie (“dog bites man”), but because of the kind of lie it is.

Trump imagines he is important to famous people (except Jeffrey Epstein), and they do him favors whenever they can (except Jeffrey Epstein). He also imagines famous people are like medieval royalty: they get whatever they want (“when you’re famous, they just let you do it!”).

So Sean Connery speaks and laws fall away and bureaucrats roll up the red tape and withdraw. Just the way Trump imagines his presidency to operate.

I say “imagines” because I address rational people. Trump acts as if this is the way the world is. It’s less that he imagines, than that he believes. He thinks this is so. So for him it’s not a lie, it’s reality.

Part of the reason he can’t understand why Epstein continues to plague him. He told it to go away….