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Pseudologia Fantastica:
"Disorder wherein person tells lies incessantly. Usually encountered in those accused of fraud, swindling, making false accusations & confessions.
Lies are mostly aimed at attracting notice & inflating importance, in contrast to carefully planned frauds."
2/ "Krafft Ebing used the term 'inventive paranoia' for both pathological liars & deluded subjects. Other related
terms used are Manchausen’s Syndrome..."

Baron von Trumphausen?

No, Munchausen was a benign fabulist.
Trump is a malignant narcissist.

medind.nic.in/daa/t07/i1/daa…
3/ "Whilst the pathological liar feels pleasure after the act, this pleasure is short lived, only to be followed by the humiliation of being treated as a liar...
Their lies are rarely aimed at excusing their offences, but more frequently, at attracting notice [of] importance."
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