Re President Trump’s News Conference Today, His Easily-Checked Lie About Electoral College Win: Does multiple personality or cynicism explain it?

Here is what happened at President Trump’s news conference of February 16, 2017, as reported by Politifact, a fact-checking website:

“Trump opened his remarks talking about his accomplishments, starting with the election itself.

‘We got 306 because people came out and voted like they've never seen before so that's the way it goes,’ Trump said. ‘I guess it was the biggest electoral college win since Ronald Reagan.’

“This is incorrect. Trump received a smaller share of the Electoral College votes (56.88 percent)  than former presidents George H. W. Bush (79.18 percent), Bill Clinton (68.77 percent in 1992, and 70.45 percent in 1996) and Barack Obama (67.84 percent in 2008 and 61.71 percent in 2012).

“So that’s five elections since Reagan and in which the winner got a larger percentage of the Electoral College votes than Trump.

“Overall, Trump ranks in the bottom third in terms of the size of his Electoral College win. We rated his repeated claim that he won in a ‘massive landslide’ False” (1).

Three Speculations

Since Trump is not psychotic (and at least one personality knows the facts), was the lie told by an alternate, emotional-reality personality, who honestly believed what he said?

Or is Trump just so cynical that he believes most ordinary people see fact-checking as an elitist conspiracy?

Or did a cynical personality let an emotional-reality personality have its say?

1. Politifact. Fact-checking Donald Trump's Feb. 16 press conference. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/feb/16/fact-checking-donald-trumps-press-conference/