https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/05/30/trump-god-messiah-assassination-attempt-00362322
For a while now, a roster of religious believers and leaders, grateful for the political victories Trump has bestowed in exchange for their votes, have suggested and sometimes outright said that Trump is “chosen,” or “anointed,” or a “savior,” or “the second coming” or “the Christ for this age.” Now, though, Trump does it, too. And that matters. It matters, some say, because it highlights how his well-documented narcissism and grandiosity has metastasized into notions of omnipotence, invincibility and infallibility. And it matters maybe most immediately because it offers a window into how he is approaching his second term — even more emboldened, even more unilaterally oriented, even more apparently uncheckable and untouchable than the first. “I run the country and the world,” he said last month. “I’d like to be pope,” he said — kind of joking, but … kind of not? — before he and the White House posted on social media an AI image of himself adorned in archetypal papal attire.
This is nothing new. Many successful people are narcissistic egomaniacs
ReplyDeleteI heard that one Gadol hador criticised a leading Rebbe for the absurd claim he was making that the ein sof resides within him!
Obama was little different but it's the usual psychological failing - when the guy I like does it, ah, it's nothing or worse, it's right! And when the guy I don't like does it, sinner! Arrogance! How dare he!
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