He lies about big things and small. He lies to make himself look good, and others bad. He even lies about lying. There is no hope, it seems, that the lying will stop.

But President Trump’s lies are quite consequential. And as we have seen, his lying ways have caught on in his administration.

Leid Stories discusses Trump’s compulsive lying—not as some personality quirk, but as an integral part of how he lives in and manipulates the world.