Every mood feels phony, a total put-on, which works well for a character delivering a self-conscious, constructed performance.
Note the pattern -- manipulating others, false flattery, phony neediness, total lack of concern even for those he professed to love, and a (lame) attempt to link it all to love of country for justification and forgiveness.
Citing financial records, Semtek says Transworld set up a phony consulting agreement to conceal five payments, totaling $75,000, to nine Russians who worked for the country's satellite program.
It paints a picture of Andrew Fastow defrauding Enron of $37 million, where the real issue is whether Enron defrauded everyone else of multiple billions by presenting books with phony assets, false profits and absurd sales totals.
In effect, a shadow banking system has arisen with big banks moving loans off their balance sheets into phony trust companies and thus evading official caps on total lending.
Later in the day, Trump affirmed that he has "total confidence in Rex" and again claimed NBC's reporting was "fake news" and "a phony story".
It turns out the kid responsible for the hacks and phony RIAA e-mails is a member of the site and is a total jerk.
