I haven't watched the entire Axios interview with Donald Trump (I have far better ways to spend that much time), but I have seen enough, with his responses on a wide array of subjects, to know that this man is either eternally confused, simply not interested in learning anything, or adamantly opposed to anything he doesn't see as being in his own best interest. Possibly all three.
And it doesn't seem to do any good to present him with evidence that refutes his position. Told that blacks are proportionally more likely to be killed by police than whites, he responds "I don't know that" and reverts to the argument that whites are killed as well and in higher numbers. Either he doesn't know what "proportionally" means, or he ignores it because he thinks his base audience neither knows or cares. Possibly both.
Clearly, in his mind, if he "doesn't know" something, it is either wrong, a lie, or simply doesn't really exist because, after all, he's a "stable genius," the smartest man he knows, the person whose advice he most relies on in regard to all subjects--and if he doesn't know something or knows differently, all other data must be false.
In my experience, these are indications of malevolent egotism, the kind we once associated with fictional villains like Lex Luthor and Doctor Doom.
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