Thank you for your input. I'm aware that Trump's ADHD leads him to making statements without considering his words closely, and his narcissism pushes him to exaggeration and hyperbole. I've already described how what the media calls "lies" should probably be divided into simple untruths, intentional lies, and inadvertent lies. https://medium.com/me/stats/post/a283ef2787bf

I do think that it important to distinguish between exaggerations and exaggerations that are lies. Let's say I ran a 5K race in 20 minutes, and finished 10th out of 100 people in the race. Exaggerations would be saying I ran really fast, or ran a really long race, or was a top finisher. But we cross into lies if I were to say that I was the fastest person in the race, or that I had run a marathon. Those latter statements are objectively untrue.

Every day Trump telling us untruths. Just yesterday he began his speech on election fraud (which even his hand-picked Attorney General has stated that election fraud had no meaningful role in changing election results) by stating that US elections are always determined on the day of the election. There has not been a federal election in my lifetime where all of the races were called that quickly. So yes, this is a lie. Even if he part of Trump's motivation it is a lie, and particularly since he uses this falsehood as a basis for alleging fraud (because tallying races took longer compared to a baseline date that has been misrepresented) he uses false statements with an intent to deceive, which fits most definitions of a lie.

The coronavirus will be gone by April- a lie. We have this under control- a lie. We have all of the testing we need - a lie repeated for months, and it is still a lie, because the COVID testing we still have is inadequate for managing the scope of the pandemic in this country.