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Yes, we know it by now: tRump is the biggest fibber of all, at least for now, as politics - and religion - open up for the use of lies as "tools" and in the future there may come others who are even more expert in twisting the truth as they need to for their own selfish purposes. Hitler and Goebbels were mastering the liars-trade before tRump, but I think he has surpassed them by now. Nothing seems to stop him in lying when he finds that necessary. As his lies influence the lives of other people, and maybe even ruin them, I see them as malicious and unforgivable: No excuse! However there are liars who are more like authors of fairy tales, although their stories may not be as innocent as we assume, because they cross the line between truth and lies. As we know by now, that goes for religions of various art and some political systems ....
Gypsy-Rose Blanchard and her mother, DeeDee
These days the name of The Master Liar is known from a very famous mental illness, namely "Munchhausen by Proxy", and the special case of Gypsy-Rose Blanchard who murdered her mother for ruining her childhood by lying about her health situation. Poor Gypsy-Rose underwent multiple not-in-the-least necessary medical treatments because her mother needed to bask in the limelight as a maternal angel, taking good care of her poor, deadly sick child: All of it was lie, upon lie, upon lie - or one wonderful fairy tale upon another one.
As to "Munchhausen", whom this illness was named after, then he, in real life, was a German baron, Hieronymus Karl Friedrich, Freiherr vor Münchhausen (1720-1797) who fought the Turks much of his life as an adult. Some time around 1750 he changed into a home-loving host for his many friends who came to visit him and, most likely, also to listen to his many stories/lies about all the adventures that befell the fictitious figure, "Baron Munchhausen", that he turned himself into. This baron is an alter ego who was met with extreme dangers, and experienced unfathomable hazards that are very enjoyable to read about, namely because he always gets out of them alive.
Not only did he survive taking a ride on a cannon ball, but he also didn't fall prey to "The Grim Reaper" when he met him. At one time he escaped a swamp or a lake by grabbing hold of his hair, thus being able to pull his horse and himself up into safety.
As it is this fictitious baron experienced such entertaining adventures that someone saw to it that they were published. Something he is assumed not to have been happy about, but they have nonetheless achieved their own literary fame, as well as having been turned into movies. People simply love this fairy tale-baron who got out of all kinds of scrapes which the real life Munchhausen didn't master as he died in 1790, seemingly having been worn out by his second and disastrous marriage.
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