embellish

She’s so sure of her melodies that she can embellish them at any moment, stretching or rushing or wriggling them as the impulse strikes.

But as Kaufman read on, he noticed Audubon’s penchant not just to embellish, but to make up tales from whole cloth.

“Michael Cohen would call me, and say he said, ‘We would like for you to run negative articles on a certain candidate,’ let’s say it’s on Ted Cruz, then he would send me information about Ted Cruz, or about Ben Carson, or about Marco Rubio, and that was the basis of our story and then we would embellish from there.”

Whether or not the meeting Trump recalled actually happened — former aides will tell you that Trump has a tendency to embellish stories — his comments nevertheless express a deep frustration with the current transatlantic security arrangement.

Trump’s endorsement suggests that he is playing to the fascist script of using God to embellish his attacks on established authorities and institutions.