Since President Donald Trump's inauguration, The Washington Post's fact-checkers have tracked more than 7,600 lies from the president. He's repeated some of them so frequently that they had to create a whole new Pinocchio category - the "Bottomless Pinocchio" - to do justice to his refusal to relinquish provable falsehoods.
Trump’s ability to maintain his parallel universe in which he is responsible for nothing and yet has achieved everything now defines his presidency. Only in that universe is the Islamic State vanquished, climate change a hoax and a wall needed to stop a horde of immigrants.