RebE, let me follow your criteria:
Both of them are knowingly lying (I am skipping “beating Medicare”). Pres B was multiple times alluding to various statistics that included effect of covid disruption to either make T’s achievements lesser and his stronger. This is not as crime of passion or a rhetorical exaggeration. This is a premeditated murder of truth that was constructed with advisors sitting in a circle and thinking how to present it better.
As to relying on advisors. Reagan did that successfully. I hope YWN record will show your admiration for this approach. But Reagan was, among other things, a governor before becoming a President. B was a senator, managing staff of 20 people tasking them to issue self-gratifying press-releases. He has no skills to manage a whole country and a military. It is easiest to see in foreign policy where opposition is clearly seen: time and again, B makes decisions based on certain theories and then is proven wrong. Afghani government will defend indefensible position for 6 months; Putin will be satisfied with a minor incursion if we let him; etc. Domestically, he can’t even give away money for free without violating constitution. T made a great point that B did not fire any of his advisors despite failures.