delude

If what his Cabinet members are telling the press is an accurate reflection of his views, it's pretty clear that he's deeply deluded.

He’s so deluded about what sounds cool that he’s nicknamed himself “The Garbage Man.”

“It was the example of men like Darrow that caused the poor deluded wretch, J.B. McNamara, to believe that he could commit the crimes he did with safety to himself,” Ford said.

To make matters very slightly worse, some of the more deluded or imaginative of those left-wing thinkers have occasionally pretzeled themselves into optimism about Donald Trump’s foreign policy, basically on the stopped-clock theory.

Although some have deluded themselves into thinking the contrary, there will be no deus ex machina moment to stop this from happening.