He lies incessantly because he is a nerd with fantastical ideas and enormous resources. But regular folks won't see this because they put their regular self in his shoes to decide what his motivations must be.

If he used a proper PR team, they would filter most of this out, and shape his communications into a form meant for regular people.

The things you mention may be the problems he thinks he has, but none of them are a problem from our point of view. From our perspective, his problem is that he doesn't hide out in the server closet like a nerdy engineer should.