Overvalued his penthouse at Trump Tower in New York by claiming that it was three times its actual size
He should have went all out and gone for eleven times then claim he got sq metres confused with sq ft. Would have been more plausible and he could have got a dig in at the metric system for good measure.
Thereâs a useful quote - I know it from Christopher Hitchens but not sure if he coined it. âExtraordinary claims require extraordinary evidenceâ. If youâre going to claim some outlandish shit, you need to at least be offering up some evidence for it to be vaguely worth my time to consider it.
Also known as the Sagan Standard. The Wiki article traces it back to the early 19th century and possibly even to David Hume.
Hardliners arenât very comfortable with the introduction of âextraordinaryâ to a principle since itâs a subjective word. As far as theyâre concerned we can either prove, definitively, any claim we make or we canât. If we canât then the claim is unjustified whether itâs extraordinary or not. The rest of us draw a line somewhere and accept whatever we accept on the basis of its likelihood being over that line or not.