No matter what people claim, no one likes to admit that they were wrong or that they made a mistake. I can certainly understand that, but the lengths to which some people will go to avoid such an admission can be truly terrifying.

It’s even more terrifying when one of those individuals is the President of the United States and when tens of millions of people so believe in him that they also can’t admit he made a mistake. From what I’ve observed, Trump is psychologically incapable of admitting he made a mistake, and all the rhetoric and blame-gaming involving the reflecting pool fiasco and the continuing insistence that the Iranians want to “make a deal” are just the latest manifestations of that inability. His pronouncements that everything he does is “wonderful,” “beautiful,” “fantastic,” and the like are also symptomatic of the same mindset.

This mindset also leads to a raft of problems. If you can’t admit a mistake, you can’t fix it. You can only blame someone else. So “vandals” sabotaged the reflecting pool, and District Attorney Pirro “folded like an umbrella” when a federal judge pointed out that there was absolutely no evidence of vandalism. Since Trump awarded the no-bid contract to cronies, he can’t admit that it was a bad decision because that would mean he’s not infallible.

The same mindset applies to the 2020 Presidential election, or the felony convictions involving the Trump company’s misrepresentation of its financial condition, or the civil cases repeatedly finding him guilty of sexual abuse.

But instead of recognizing Trump’s inability to admit mistakes, tens of millions of Americans buy into his lies. Wanting to believe a President isn’t a fault, but failing to admit that the President has made mistakes and lied repeatedly is.

But whether those “true believers” ever will admit Trump has made mistakes and repeatedly lied is another matter.