SPOILER: Truth is not dead.

This is Time Magazine’s cover this week, “Is Truth Dead?” It’s meant to be a callback to a decades-old Time cover story, “Is God Dead?” But in this case, Truth isn’t dead, even though it’s being attacked on an hourly basis. In a not-so-hilarious twist, guess who is exclusively interviewed in this issue? That’s right, our Liar In Chief, Emperor Baby Fists. Seriously, tuck in, because there is a ridiculous amount of bulls–t. Here.

Time: Do you want me to give you a quick overview [of the story]?
Trump: Yeah, it’s a cool story. I mean it’s, the concept is right. I predicted a lot of things, Michael. Some things that came to you a little bit later. But, you know, we just rolled out a list. Sweden. I make the statement, everyone goes crazy. The next day they have a massive riot, and death, and problems. Huma [Abedin] and Anthony [Weiner], you know, what I tweeted about that whole deal, and then it turned out he had it, all of Hillary’s email on his thing. NATO, obsolete, because it doesn’t cover terrorism. They fixed that, and I said that the allies must pay. Nobody knew that they weren’t paying. I did. I figured it. Brexit, I was totally right about that. You were over there I think, when I predicted that, right, the day before. Brussels, I said, Brussels is not Brussels. I mean many other things, the election’s rigged against Bernie Sanders. We have a lot of things.

Time: But there’s other things you said that haven’t panned out. The peg for this story is the wiretapping hearing on Monday, in which [FBI Director James] Comey and [NSA Director Mike] Rogers testified about your tweets there.
Trump: Yeah well if you’d look at, in fact I’ll give you the front page story, and just today I heard, just a little while ago, that Devin Nunes had a news conference, did you hear about this, where they have a lot of information on tapping. Did you hear about that?

Time: I have not, no.
Trump: Now remember this. When I said wiretapping, it was in quotes. Because a wiretapping is, you know today it is different than wire tapping. It is just a good description. But wiretapping was in quotes. What I’m talking about is surveillance. And today, [House Intelligence Committee Chairman] Devin Nunes just had a news conference. Now probably got obliterated by what’s happened in London. But just had a news conference, and here it is one of those things. The other one, election, I said we are going to win, we won. And many other things. And I think this is going to be very interesting.

Time: One of my ideas here is that throughout the campaign and now as president, you have used disputed statements, this is one of them that is disputed, the claim that three million undocumented people voted in the election…
Trump: Well I think I will be proved right about that too.

Time: The claim that Muslims celebrated on 9-11 in New Jersey…
Trump: Well if you look at the reporter, he wrote the story in the Washington Post.

[From Time]

This is the format. This is not a parody. This is not a high-minded satire. This is what really happens when you interview Bigly Trump. “Here’s one of your lies.” “I heard that in a newspaper, it’s true.” “Here’s proof that it’s not true.” “That’s just what I heard and I will be vindicated.” “No, really, it’s not true. You’re sitting there, lying to the American people.” “….Hillary Clinton…”

What else? He says that he’s “forming a committee” to look into those three million illegal votes that Hillary Clinton got. When asked about lying, he goes on and on about his electoral college votes. If someone agrees with him, then that person is “right.” If someone disagrees with him, that person is “fake news.” He goes on and on about Devin Nunes’ press conference, which apparently happened just minutes before Time interviewed Trump. He’s literally still justifying his tweets about Obama wiretapping him. This is how he spends his time.

Cover courtesy of Time Magazine, additional photos courtesy of Getty.