He can spin anything he wants to the people voting for him, because he has a whole media apparatus to influence them. But he also has to deal with people outside of his cult in the real world. Maybe those people don’t have much influence in what happens inside of the US, but ‘tricks’ like force him to show his cards to the rest of the world. Also history is written by the victor and I think that at the end of the day century that isn’t gonna be trump.