When I first encountered Trumps tweets in 2014ish, I thought he was a comedian satirising conservative politics. I thought he was laying it on a little thick.

This was my buddy with r/thedonald. It took a bit of convincing -.-

My old boss was a flat earther. He used to say the dumbest shit ever, and I would respond along the lines of “You can easily prove the earth is round yourself with a stick and a tape measure.” and he would go “I’m not doing that. You have to.” “But you would just say I lied about the results.” “Because I’m right.” Then he would get this big grin on his face like he won.

Found out that a bunch of people in the initial push used it as a prompt to exercise their debate skills, they didn’t believe it themselves. He was one of these insufferable twats. But if enough assholes lie about something, idiots will parrot them in earnest.