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Today is our independence day.

[music playing]

[stephanie winston wolkoff] donald says what donald wants to say.

It's his narrative. It's a false narrative.

[mary trump] of course he lies.

He lies relentlessly and constantly.

Everything about donald trump is fake.

[narrator] but are the telltale signs?

Free indicators, giving this confidence

That this is deception.

That's enough. That's enough.

[man] mr. President.

His voice suggests he's not quite as certain

As the words seem to want to portray.

[narrator] for the first time, our team analyzes

The words and body language of donald trump.

I looked at the, the rain, which just never came.

[narrator] what he says.

My father is german, right? Was german.

His father was born and bred in new york.

[narrator] how he says it.

Many of those affected were first responders.

And I was down there also.

For some reason, he had to embellish this.

[narrator] and what he means.

He's squirming. He's doing the trump squirm.

[narrator] frame by frame.

Today I'm very proud of myself.

[narrator] second by second.

[man] mr. President, mr. President.

[narrator] our experts spot the truth about trump.

The watcher.

I am a doctor in emotional intelligence.

And I specialize in comparing body language

And facial expressions and voice

With the messages and the words that people say.

[narrator] the listener.

I'm a professor of linguistics.

I listen out for what people mean.

That involves listening to what they say

And how they say it

And what they intend to communicate.

[narrator] and the profiler.

I'm a consultant and forensic psychologist.

Over the past 25 years,

I've profiled some of the most infamous criminal minds

And also some of the most complex personalities.

And now they say I'm immune!

[narrator] it's said by some

That donald trump bends the truth,

Even lies, to get what he wants.

We're going to build a wall!

[narrator] but does he believe everything he says?

We look back on a life and a presidency

Where nothing it seems was off-limits.

Not even his father's place of birth.

When trying to persuade

And cajole the german government,

This is what he said.

My father is german, right? Was german.

And born in a...

A very wonderful place in germany,

So I have a great feeling for germany.

[cliff lansley] so, we've seen about 12 seconds of dialogue,

But it's riddled with behavior

That's contradicting that claim.

Let's have a look.

My father is german, right? Was german.

And born in a...

A very wonderful place in germany.

So I have a great feeling for germany.

So I noticed five different indicators here.

And one of those indicators is the hand shrug.

We see this outward rotation of both hands.

It's a gesture part of the full shrug

With his shoulders lifting,

Which is contradicting the statement

That his father is from germany.

Notice his legs... They raise and tense.

Which is unusual, because throughout this interview

He is fairly relaxed.

But this is a tension that comes up here.

And then we see an eye closure

Where he blinks three times

And that's not baseline for trump.

My father is german, right? Was german.

[cliff] there's three or four blinks there,

But longer than blinks for trump, and the eye closure

Is the distancing away from the words he's using.

And what creates this is a muscle

Called the risorius muscle

Connected from the corner of the lip

To the side of the jaw.

And this is a muscle which is activated in fear.

And those can bind

To be reliable indicators of deception.

[dramatic music playing]

[narrator] his speech pattern also contained clues.

My father is german, right?

He says, "my father is german, right?"

Then says...

"was german."

He's doing a self-correction at that point.

So, "is" becomes "was,"

But he's missed the pronoun out, he was german.

He goes on to say...

Born in a...

A very wonderful place in germany.

He's missing out

The, "he was born in a very wonderful place."

So, that emission shows

There's some level of distancing going on.

And this shouldn't be

Something you would have to distance from.

It wasn't his father that was born there.

So, the distancing is probably for that.

My father is german, right? Was german.

His father was born and bred in new york.

He doesn't see it as lying.

It's more of a bending of the truth

In order to ingratiate himself

And charm the german people.

Because of course his grandfather was german,

Not his father.

[crowd cheering]

[narrator] from day one, January 20, 2017,

It was clear this was a us president like no other.

The world witnessed the heavy rain

And the crowd reaching for coats and umbrellas

At trump's inauguration ceremony.

[man on pa] ladies and gentlemen,

The president and first lady!

[crowd cheering]

["hail to the chief" playing]

But I have to say,

The crowd was unbelievable today, you know.

I looked at the, the rain, which just never came...

What we got here is a series of about four or five blinks,

Which are quite long.

Uh, about a third of a second.

You know, we finished the speech...

That breaks the criteria of a blink into an eye closure.

You're cutting yourself off.

That raises a suspicion.

What's really interesting is melania's response.

As soon as he says the rain never came,

And we'll see the offsets of the smile, very sudden.

I looked at the, the rain, which just never came...

Which she's as shocked as perhaps everybody else was.

And then a little bit of an eye flash,

Which may indicate

Anxiety or fear of where is he going with this.

Because it's not true.

We get dysfluency features.

So we get "errs" and we get a repetition of the "the."

And where we get that is important,

Because that's the point he's talking about the rain.

I looked at the, the rain, which just never came.

Notice he tells us, "it never came,"

But he told us that after we looked at the rain,

Which is a hyperbolic backfire.

You can't be looking at the rain if it never came.

I looked at the, the rain, which just never came.

It's impossible to look at the rain

And it then never come.

If... Because how would you know?

He could've said, I was looking at the rain forecast,

And then that would make sense,

But he doesn't say that.

You know, we finished the speech,

Went inside, it poured...

So, you've got to think what's going on here.

We have photographs of what was going on.

And then, amazingly, it rained and then we went out...

[crowd cheering]

[narrator] one of the main planners of the ceremony

Confirms what the cameras showed.

I mean you'd be standing there

And it would be pouring.

Donald says what donald wants to say.

It's his narrative.

He would say whatever he wanted.

There was no truth to it.

So, when a fact doesn't support

His fantasy or idea of everything being great,

He simply ignores it or he rationalizes it away.

The actual crazy thing is

That everybody around him enables this.

He's got such a distorted view of what is real

Because he is surrounded by people

Who constantly agree with him.

[narrator] fast-forward four years.

-November 4, 2020. -[crowd chanting]

Loyal followers rally round

As trump refuses to accept he's losing the presidency.

[donald] I want to thank the american people

For their tremendous support.

Millions and millions of people voted for us tonight

And a very sad group of people

Is trying to disenfranchise that group of people.

And we won't stand for it. We will not stand for it.

[cheering and applauding]

He's squirming. He's doing the trump squirm.

[cheering]

And if he was standing straight without a lectern,

I'm pretty confident we'd see an outward turn of the hands,

Which is, I have no confidence in what I'm saying now.

A deceptive indicator.

I mean, literally, we were just all set

To get outside and just celebrate

Something that was so beautiful, so good.

But when he's clumped to a lectern,

That doesn't move,

What we see is a squirming in the body.

And so the hand gestures

Seem to be massed by holding the lectern.

But they leak through the body

When we see this movement.

It's almost comical.

This is a subconscious process

When we contradict our words with our body language

And it's hard to control.

It leaks somewhere, and here we see it from his shoulders.

He's like somebody who is too drunk to fight

But just can't quite back down.

You know, "and another thing!"

Georgia stopped counting.

It's also clear that we have won georgia.

And another thing, "they're counting illegal ballots."

I've been saying this from the day I heard

They were going to send out tens of millions of ballots.

What you're seeing in this speech

And that's when the reality of a situation

And their sense of themselves

That they don't want to believe it.

And so their thinking becomes really quite distorted

And it can almost border on delusional.

It's also clear that we have won georgia.

His voice goes up. He says...

Likewise we've clearly won north carolina.

A rising intonation we associate with questions,

And he's not making a question here.

He is making a statement.

His voice isn't showing that drop in intonation.

So his voice suggests he is not quite as certain

As the words seem to want to portray.

We were getting ready to win this election.

Frankly, we did win this election.

[cheering and applauding]

[narrator] new york, 1985.

And a big night for the trump family.

[fred trump] shakespeare said, "never follow an empty wagon,

Because nothing ever falls off."

[audience laughing]

Remember, you have to find your spark in life.

Because in each and every one of us

There's a tank full of gas.

[narrator] graciously entertaining the audience,

Fred trump, donald's father,

He built the family business on affordable housing

In new york's outer areas.

[kerry] fred trump was not a stranger

To mismanaging or manipulating the truth himself.

His business was rumored to be involved with the mafia

And he was rumored to also be dodging

Millions of dollars' worth of tax.

[piano music playing]

[narrator] an account of the trump family

Has now been written by donald's niece.

A psychologist, she claims, but he dismisses her story,

That early circumstances in their home, in queens, new york,

Continue to shape his life.

[mary] when donald was two and a half,

His mother was very, very ill

And was essentially unavailable to her children

For about a year.

That's an incredibly important stage

In a child's life developmentally,

So he's suddenly bereft of his primary connection

To human love and affection.

And because my grandfather

Had absolutely no interest in small children,

Donald essentially felt abandoned.

He was alone, he was terrified, uh...

And he was confused.

There was nobody to help him make sense of the loss.

So he had to develop some defense mechanisms

To protect himself from those absolutely horrible feelings.

And over time they hardened into character traits.

[narrator] mary trump says that as he grew older,

Donald became bolder and more aggressive,

Challenging his mother and teachers.

But fred trump liked

What he called "donald's killer attitude."

[mary] and my dad, freddie, was the oldest son.

He was expected to be the one to take over,

To succeed my grandfather in his business.

And my grandfather was incredibly hard on my dad.

He was very sensitive.

So, my grandfather's abuse of my father

Really beat him down.

So, what you have to think is

Donald trump as a young boy watching this,

Usually he is ignored.

What does he learn from it?

Well, what he learns from it

Is that if he wants approval he's got to be tough,

He can't show any sign of vulnerability.

To do that is to risk humiliation and punishment.

So you can see that how that dynamic

Really shaped who he believed he was

And who he believed he had to be

If he wanted to win his father's affection.

[mary] for donald, one of the drugs is attention.

But it's not the kind of attention that replaces love,

Which he has in my view never really experienced.

So, it's this fruitless but interminable quest

To find those things that have been missing in his life

Since he was two and a half years old.

Deep down he's really still that little boy

Seeking approval, seeking attention.

[music playing]

[narrator] soon donald led the family

Into the manhattan property world.

His brash bravado,

Supported by his father's financial brain.

Look at all this money. Here you go.

[mary] donald fit the bill.

And was perfectly willing to put himself out there,

Be the center of attention, be flashy,

Be somebody who was completely willing to throw money around.

[donald] oh, nice seeing you.

[woman] thank you.

-You love me, you love me. -Yes.

That's nice. I love you too.

Thank you very much. Have a good time.

And that just appealed to my grandfather.

And it even overrode the fact that...

The undeniable fact

That donald wasn't actually good at business.

His father brokered

Most of his early successful deals.

Left to his own devices,

This is a man who's been bankrupt five times.

People have it or don't have it for certain things,

And making deals is really something

That just is either there or it's not there.

[kerry] this image is what the american people trust.

A self-made billionaire

Who is a super strategist,

Who is play-hard, work-hard.

Actually none of that could be further from the truth.

[narrator] but building towers, casinos and golf courses

Wasn't enough.

Donald trump still craved more attention.

Landing the presenters role on the apprentice

And attracting record audiences

Gave him coast-to-coast recognition.

I tell it like it is.

They better know who the boss is.

And soon he was looking beyond television.

To washington.

For this campaign he had a special weapon.

Twitter was his electric line, his electric connection,

Right through to americans.

And it was hugely important for him,

Because he could just tell it straight.

And tell it with bombast, and vigor, and excitement.

And he loved doing that.

[chiming]

Donald trump said that having twitter

Is like having his own newspaper

Just without the legal problems.

So, what he recognizes

Is he can say what he likes about anybody.

He can put any version of reality out there,

He can attack whoever he wants.

And there are no real repercussions.

[narrator] in 2011, trump started twitting questions

About barack obama's legitimacy as president.

Whether or not barack obama was a secret muslim

And secretly wasn't actually born

In hawaii or america at all,

He was some secret immigrant

That had been smuggled in from the middle east or...

That's how the conspiracy went.

Well, obviously untrue.

[chiming]

Let him show his records.

We don't know anything about this guy.

Why doesn't he show the birth certificate?

[narrator] when released,

The birth certificate proved barack obama was american-born.

Trump tried to take the credit.

[donald] today I'm very proud of myself.

Our president has finally released

A birth certificate.

[narrator] at a journalists' dinner,

It was payback time for honored guest donald trump.

All kidding aside, obviously we all know

About your credentials and breadth of experience.

Um...

[audience laughing]

For example, uh...

No, seriously, just recently in an episode of celebrity apprentice

Did not impress the judges from omaha steaks.

But you, mr. Trump, recognized

That the real problem was a lack of leadership

And so ultimately you fired gary busey.

[audience laughing]

And these were the kinds of decisions

That would keep me up at night.

[audience laughing]

The most important thing for trump in his mind

Is it got him attention.

It got him talked about.

I said, melania, do you believe this?

Everybody's talking about me. They're up there.

The president of the united states

Is talking about me during this whole thing.

I'm having a great time. This is unbelievable.

[narrator] but most observers agreed.

Trump was hurt and wanted revenge

On those who dismissed him as not serious.

Ladies and gentlemen...

[cheering]

I am officially running...

None of us in the family took it seriously.

We thought it was a joke.

We thought he thought it was a joke.

...For president of the united states.

I'll always remember george clooney

Saying this at a press conference.

There's not going to be a president donald trump.

That's not gonna happen.

And we're going to make our country great again.

[audience cheering]

[narrator] now, everyone had to believe it.

Donald trump stormed the tv debates,

Claiming his main republican rival was the liar.

Cruz was like... Oh, this guy is a liar.

That's why we call him liar.

We call him lying ted.

We call him lying ted.

[narrator] and in the presidential campaign

Wanting his democrat opponent locked up.

And then of course we have crooked hillary.

Crooked hillary.

[audience booing]

She's been crooked from the beginning.

[dawn] the reason mock-nicknames work

Is that they focus our attention

On one feature of that person.

So, in effect, that person becomes just that.

So, hillary is only "crooked." that's all she is.

And ted cruz is only "lying." that's all he becomes.

And they're effective,

Because they're short and memorable.

In the hope that it deflects attention

Away from you and what you're doing.

[audience cheering]

[dawn] I think he's talking to an audience

That believe that large chunks of the political arena

Are corrupt.

He's echoing what they believe

Rather than influencing what they believe.

The way he did it, took it to a different level.

It is my high honor

And distinct privilege

To introduce to you

The president elect of the united states of america,

Donald trump.

[crowd cheering]

[dramatic music playing]

[narrator] one month after taking office,

Donald trump claimed his was the biggest presidential victory

In more than 30 years.

I put it out before the american people.

Got 306 electoral college votes.

I guess it was the biggest electoral college win

Since ronald reagan.

[narrator] a claim that was quickly exposed.

[reporter speaking]

[donald speaking]

So, his one way of disconnecting

From a statement that's false

And that's to drop responsibility for it.

"I was given it," "I heard," "someone said."

So, he's reporting a third-party,

Which detaches himself from this.

He begins to move the blame

Or shift the blame onto someone else.

We had a very, very big margin.

So, notice the lack of details in his

Compared to what the press reporter was able to give.

So, all of those things tell us

That trump is struggling at this point.

He's attacking the questioner

And he's attacking the question.

Those two are two of the 27 indicators of deception

And we've got them here.

He's got to claim that he won

By a greater margin than anybody

Since ronald reagan,

Which is just patently not the truth.

I guess it was the biggest electoral college win

Since ronald reagan.

How inadequate do you have to feel?

How big does that hole in your soul have to be,

That becoming the president of the united states

Is not good enough?

Reaching those dizzy heights is not just great enough,

It's not brilliant enough.

You have to add something to it.

And the need that he's got for validation and praise,

It's a bucket that just can't ever be filled.

[donald] in a few moments,

I will sign the 9/11 victims compensation fund

For families who lost precious loved ones

As a result of September 11 attacks.

-[applauding] -thank you.

[narrator] in July, 2019,

President trump helped survivors and rescue workers

Still suffering aftereffects

Of the attacks on the world trade center in 2001.

And it would've been an extremely powerful speech.

Many of those affected were firefighters, police officers

And other first responders.

[applauding]

Trump can deliver really good speeches.

For some reason though, he had to embellish this.

And I was down there also,

But I'm not considering myself a first responder.

But I was down there.

The problem with it

Is that he uses two "but" constructions.

So, a "but" construction is designed, if you like,

To contradict what's just said previously.

"I was down there also,

But I'm not considering myself to be a first responder."

It works. Just stop there.

It works because he's saying

I share something that you went through,

But not to the same degree,

Because you did something much more than I did.

Okay? Works... Stop.

But he doesn't do that,

So he ends up contradicting that message

By saying, "but I was down there."

But I was down there.

We have that, "I'm not considering myself a first responder,"

Which is powerful.

Unfortunately, he almost wipes it out

Because of the "but I was down there"

And because of the fact that he goes on to repeat.

"I spent a lot of time down there with you."

But I was down there. I spent a lot of time down there with you.

[narrator] despite media requests for proof,

Donald trump is yet to produce evidence

He attended ground zero with first responders.

Number one, we get the trump squirm,

Because he has no confidence in what he's saying,

So it comes out off the shoulders.

Grip the lectern tightly when he makes this claim.

So it goes white at the first knuckle.

As he hangs onto the lectern.

And in addition, we see this fear expression.

So, we can be very confident

He's feeling stressed, anxious,

Maybe fearful at this point,

Maybe because he's made a false claim.

[inaudible]

[narrator] one person who was doubtful

That trump was right for the presidency

Was john bolton.

You're going to do a fantastic job.

-I appreciate your journey. -Thank you.

It's an honor to be here.

[narrator] bolton,

Who'd worked for ronald reagan and george w. Bush,

Overcame his concerns

And was appointed national security advisor

In 2018.

I felt that after almost 15 months in the presidency,

That the weight of the office,

The gravity of the responsibilities

Would've had an effect on him,

As they've had on every other president certainly in the last century.

But I found out that that was not true.

That he was not affected by the presidency.

That he didn't see it as something larger than himself.

He thought the presidency was about donald trump.

And that's the basic explanation

For almost all of his conduct.

It wasn't about leading the united states.

It was about being donald trump

On the biggest stage he could find.

[dramatic music playing]

I think it shows

That deep inside trump there's nothing there.

[narrator] finally, after just 15 months,

John bolton quit.

[john] I gave my resignation letter to my secretary.

When I got home I asked her

To deliver the letter to the oval office,

Which she did,

And about 45 minutes later,

Trump tweeted that I'd been fired.

When reporters and others would ask me about it

And say, "but the president said he fired you

And you say you've resigned, how do you address that?"

And I would say,

I'd stake my credibility against donald trump's any day.

I don't think trump deliberately lies.

I don't think he can tell the difference

His idea of what is truthful and what is reality

Is so distorted, I think,

That the first person that he deceives

Is usually himself.

[dramatic music playing]

[narrator] accusations of distortions, deceptions

And now the incredible question...

Is this the real melania trump?

Whenever she smiles, it's been such a rare event

That has led to speculation that there are fake melanias,

That she's using a body double.

Thank you, folks.

[narrator] the fake melania theory started online in 2017,

Went viral and is now openly discussed

On national tv news shows.

Donald trump has tried to silence the rumors,

Tweeting that fake melania was created by fake news,

Every time I hear the fake melania,

I start to laugh, my blood boils,

And I say, are you kidding me?

Honestly, to know melania

Is to know that melania would never allow somebody else

To play her role.

Never.

Because what if they didn't play it good enough?

There is no fake melania.

The fact that people speculate about fake melanias

Says something about the trump presidency

Because never before

Has been this sort of speculation

About a first lady.

And I think that that shows you

How trump is viewed by many people.

[narrator] what's true and what's fake

Dominated the most extraordinary press conference

Ever staged in the white house.

After donald trump claimed

Migrants were invading america.

[man] your campaign had an ad

Showing migrants climbing over walls and so on.

Well, that's true.

- They weren't actors. -[man] they're not going to be doing that--

Well, no, it's true.

Do you think they were actors?

They weren't actors. They didn't come from hollywood.

These were... These were people.

This was an actual...

You know, it happened a few days ago.

-And-- -[man] they're hundreds of miles away though.

They're hundreds and hundreds of miles away.

That's not an invasion.

Honestly, I think you should let me run the country.

You run cnn, and if you did it well,

-Your ratings would be-- -[man] if I may ask--

Okay, that's enough.

[man] mr. President, if I may ask you one other question.

-Are you worried that-- -that's enough.

-[man] mr. President-- -that's enough.

-[man] the other folks-- -that's enough.

-[man] pardon me, ma'am-- -excuse me, that's enough.

-Peter, let's go-- -[man] if I may ask you on the russia investigation.

[man] are you concerned that--

I'm not concerned about anything

With the russia investigation,

Because it's a hoax.

That's enough. Put down the mic.

Mr. President, are you worried

About indictments coming down in this investigation?

[man] mr. President...

I tell you what. Cnn should be ashamed of itself

Having you working for them.

You are a rude, terrible person.

You shouldn't be working for cnn.

Go ahead.

All right, peter, go ahead.

[peter] in jim's defense I've traveled with him in washington.

He's a diligent reporter who busts--

Well, I'm not a big fan of yours either.

-I understand. -To be honest.

So, let me ask you a question if I can.

-You repeatedly said-- -you aren't the best.

Mr. President, you repeatedly over the--

Okay, just sit down please.

When you report fake news...

No, when you report fake news,

Which cnn does a lot,

You are the enemy of the people.

-Go ahead. -[peter] mr. President...

[cliff] sometimes destructive aggression

Is typical of someone in a ceo position,

Or a leadership position,

And it's a characteristic

Of what we call the dark triad.

And the triad is a mixture of narcissism,

Machiavellianism and psychopathy.

That's enough. That's enough.

You've got to be assertive to push a big business.

-[peter] ...Americans against one another. -Peter...

Are you trying to be him?

What he's got is an extreme personality.

And dark side personality traits

Are actually extremely common

In high-level business people.

And it's not viewed as a mental disorder.

Far from it.

[cliff] if you're the president of a country,

You've got to be aggressive sometimes when you're attacked.

And we see that a lot in trump.

You are a rude, terrible person. You should...

And I've witnessed

Almost 50% of those indicators.

[kerry] but the best business minds,

And I think also the best political minds,

And narcissistic personality traits

All mixed in with much nicer traits

Like compassion and humility.

He's got the dark side traits in spades,

But there's nothing kinder, there's nothing more gentle

To balance it out.

Before the end of the year,

We'll have a safe and effective vaccine

And we'll defeat the china virus.

You see how good we are doing

Relative to other countries in other parts of the world.

But the fake news doesn't like saying that.

They don't like telling you that.

[crowd booing]

[narrator] when donald trump accused the media of lying

About the covid-19 pandemic,

For many it was the turning point of the presidential campaign.

[chiming]

The american response was not up to american standards.

It was incoherent

I think largely because of donald trump.

[ominous music playing]

[narrator] concerns rose

When the president sounded enthusiastic

About treating the virus with disinfectant.

Thank you very much.

[narrator] he spoke directly to dr. Deborah birx,

The white house coronavirus response coordinator.

He starts to recall

A conversation he must've had with deborah birx

Immediately prior to coming onto the stage.

...And then I see the disinfectant

That knocks it out in a minute.

One minute.

[cliff] oh, my goodness!

We get a combination of reactions here from dr. Birx.

The first is a disengagement from trump.

So, the eye contact goes to the floor.

So, if we look at her hands while trump is talking,

She is manipulating, probably to comfort herself.

And the legs, pull together,

In a reaction to the fear and anxiety

Of what's being discussed right now,

Of how ridiculous it is.

When we are anxious,

There's a body tension which we get often in our legs.

Because the natural reaction in fear

Is to escape the threat of harm.

If she feels, "this is dangerous for my reputation,

This is dangerous ground," and she is fearful,

Then all the energy goes to the legs

To prepare you to run.

And that tension, if you can't run,

Manifests itself in a squeezing together.

So, she's dispelling the energy of the blood flow

Going to the large muscles in the legs

That normally you use to run,

Into a clamping.

And the press picked this up too,

Because you'll hear the shutters rattling in the background.

And then I see the disinfectant

-That knocks it out in a minute. -[camera shutters clicking]

One minute.

If she could escape and run out of this room,

I'm sure at this point she would.

And is there a way we can do something like that?

By injection inside or...

Or almost a cleaning...

So, this is now particularly problematic.

What's interesting

Is he is continuing to show he is uncertain,

Because his voice volume drops.

Because you see it gets in the lungs

And does a tremendous number...

And he is suggesting

It might be a good idea for them to check out

Whether they should look at ingesting disinfectant.

The poor woman has to stay on her chair.

[kerry] you wouldn't wish a pandemic on anybody,

But it really exposes

Donald trump's lack of leadership ability

And how out of depth I think he is

In the role that he is in.

Everything is great here, there's nothing to see.

Hey, by the way, I had it. Here I am.

-I mean, you know... -[audience cheering]

And now they say I'm immune!

So, he spends months,

Saying, "no, no, this is not a big deal."

It's almost as though acknowledging this virus

Is a weakness and he doesn't want to show that weakness.

And yet he's almost in a staring competition with it.

Who is going to blink first?

Well, it's not going to be the virus.

? go, donald, go! ?

? go, donald, go! ?

? go, donald, go! ?

? go, donald, go! ?

[cheering]

[narrator] November 2020.

Donald trump is losing the us presidential election.

[man] good afternoon from a very sunny washington

Where in the last few minutes,

Joe biden has gained enough votes

To be declared the next president of the united states.

[chanting]

[crowd cheering]

It's time to put away the harsh rhetoric,

Lower the temperature, see each other again,

Listen to each other again.

And to make progress,

We have to stop treating our opponents

As our enemies.

They are not our enemies. They are americans.

[cars honking]

[narrator] trump's message was defiant.

But what was his body language saying?

[donald] thank you very much.

To protect the integrity of our very important 2020 election,

If you count the legal votes, I easily win.

Right at the beginning, we see the trump squirm

As his shoulders move.

The shoulder squirm.

So it's a secondary effect of a gesture, which means,

"I have no confidence in what I'm saying to you right now.'

As everybody saw, we won by historic numbers.

There's an obviously different delivery in this case.

Trump is someone who I think likes communicating

And he uses his voice in really interesting ways.

Here it's flat.

And it's flat for most of his interaction.

I've never seen such love and such affection

And such spirit as I've seen...

[cliff] very easy to miss

This genuine expression of sadness.

The best we'll get from trump

In terms of an expression of sadness

Is a slight flattening of the eyebrows.

And we see it here.

This is what he normally looks like,

To the image we have on the right here,

Which is an inner brow raise that's flattened.

You can see a relaxation of the eyelids,

Which is another feature of sadness.

And also a slight, very slight...

A couple of millimeters turning down

Of the outer mouth corners.

In philadelphia, observers have been kept far away.

If you separate the message, and type it out,

And read that,

You'll hear the words of someone

Who feels they've won the election.

However, if you turn the sound off

And take the words out.

[no audio]

[cliff] here is a man he is lost.

And then our numbers

Started miraculously getting whittled away...

[narrator] tv stations and social media

Began abandoning trump.

Twitter starting adding to donald trump's tweets

That actually his claims are disputed,

And even fox news started to say,

Actually this isn't necessarily the truth.

And I think that that has got to add

To his sense of, "I'm a victim here."

[mary] he is in a very dark place.

This is literally the first time in his life

That donald has been in a situation

The outcome of which he cannot change.

Nobody can buy him out of it,

Nobody can use their influence

To change the results.

[tom] you just have to give him credit

For being a performer, a conjurer,

One of the best performers I think we've seen in modern politics

Anywhere in the world in 50 years.

We were getting ready to win this election.

Frankly, we did win this election.

[audience cheering]

The definition of a lie

Is a deliberate attempt to mislead others

Without prior notification.

So, if you're selectively taking statistics

To create a good impression of you and your party,

You're trying to influence people

To think positively of you,

It's not a balanced argument. That's deception.

It's a deliberate attempt to mislead

That his story, his opinion is the correct one.

[dawn] it's very, very difficult to come forward and say,

"d'you know what? Okay, it is a fair system after all.

I should've put my big boy pants on

And I should say, yeah, you won. Well done, joe."

And none of the speeches I've seen

Suggests he is in a place to do that.

We will win this and we...

As far as I'm concerned, we already have won.

So I just...

[mary] of course he lies.

He lies relentlessly and constantly.

But it goes way beyond that.

Because what happens for donald

Is that the more he tells the lie,

The more he convinces himself

That it's the truth.

[kerry] trump has taken this mindset

To its most extreme,

Because he's got to be a winner.

In his father's eyes, if you weren't a winner,

You were a loser by definition and that is humiliating.

Donald trump cannot countenance that,

Because still at the end of the day,

I believe that he is that frightened little boy

Who is seeking his father's approval.