I'm sure they didn't... and there was a rousing cheer.

He pretty clearly sees himself as the center of the world and lies in any way he can to inflate his own ego and self-portrait.

The worst thing, to me, is that his followers accept his fictions uncritically and see all the fact-checking as attacks, not as reality. This is possibly because they've tied their political and personal identities to his, and so they can't bear to think they've been so foolish as to bind "their names, their fortunes, their sacred honor" to a con man and a liar. It's also very likely because Trump is so good at attracting those whose tribal instinct outweighs everything else, and when the head man of the tribe is "attacked", their only response is to circle the wagons. I haven't completely given up the idea of reaching Republicans through appealing to their rationality, but it does seem more hopeless by the day.

One of his NY friends said, "He'll lie about what time it is, for the practice." That was a friend.