> "Compassionate Deception" is altering the truth to prevent distress in a demented person and create a gentler reality. World leaders apply this practice on Trump

"The primary goal is to avoid causing pain, panic, or significant emotional distress to the individual.

"It can involve directly lying ("therapeutic fibbing"), withholding information (omission), or creating a new, more positive reality to which the individual can relate.

So when World Leaders tell Trump:

"Nobody could have done what you just did"
"You stopped so many wars nobody could ever have stopped"
"You deserve the Nobel Prize"

They are actually engaging in Compassionate Deception" on