And yet at the same time as Donald Trump’s mouth and iPhone were propagating falsehoods, fictions, and fantasies to a vast global audience, he convinced himself that it was he who was the victim of a vast media campaign of defamation and falsehood. “Dishonest media says Mexico won’t be paying for the wall if they pay a little later so the wall can be built more quickly. Media is fake!” Trump tweeted those words on January 8, 2017.5 Three weeks later, Trump signed an executive order that called for funding the wall from future federal budget requests.6
