As if we needed yet another example of Trump’s pathological lying, I feel compelled to bring this one up because it was easily disproved and stands as a remarkable example of the magnitude of Trump’s lies for everyone to see on national television.

Now, stay with me here; this is Renoir’s Two Sisters on the Terrace, painted in 1881 and bequeathed from the estate of Mrs. Lewis Larned (Annie Swan) Coburn to the Art Institute of Chicago in 1933.  It has been in the Institute’s permanent collection since, traveling the world, loaned to museums for exhibitions.

Now looky here; over Pence’s shoulder during a national television interview in Trump Tower shortly after the election is…wait for it…Renoir’s Two Sisters hanging right there on the wall.  How can that be?  Yes, that’s right; Trump the “billionaire” has a counterfeit painting right there in his home and shown on national television.

Likewise, nude model Melania Trump used the fake Renoir as a backdrop during a television interview with Gretta Van Susteren:

Oh, but it gets better; it gets a lot better.  Is he just ignorant enough to think he bought a masterpiece when he actually bought a fake?  Does he expect people to not know the difference?  Or just he not care?  Like so many issues surrounding the dumpster fire of the Trump administration, the answer is not that simple.  Vanity Fair reported a story about the painting this week in an interview with Tim O’Brian, who recently published TrumpNation, a biography of his orangeness.  O’Brian recalled two conversations with Trump years ago when he rode on his plane for an interview.  The fake Renoir was hanging on the wall of Trump’s plane.  He asked Trump if it was an original, to which Trump answered yes.  O’Brien corrected him that it’s not real since the actual painting is owned by the Art Institute of Chicago.  O’Brien reports that Trump simply argued that this was the original.  O’Brien dropped the subject.  More telling, the very next day when they boarded the plane again, Trump said, “You know, that’s an original Renoir”. Wisely, O’Brien chose to just let it go.

The torrent of lies that issues forth from Trump’s mouth is simply not normal.  It’s also exhausting to have to keep pointing out those lies, but it is something we must continue to do.  When the lie is so easily debunked it mandatory that we point out such outrageous falsehood.

Just like his cheating at golf, erecting fake historical markers, selling cheap Made in China clothing, and swindling partners, investors, and contractors, displaying fake paintings as original opens a window into Trump’s soul.  The problem, of course, is that when you look through that window, there is no soul to see.