Trump's Long Embrace of Alternative Facts

...Trump partially owned up to this during his early ascent as a national celebrity, when he and his ghostwriter, Tony Schwartz, published "The Art of the Deal" in 1987. Trump described repeated falsehoods, doublespeak and exaggerations as tools he used to get ahead in business and life, and labelled them "truthful hyperbole."...
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-01-27/trump-s-long-embrace-of-alternative-facts