The following article by Jimmy McCloskey was posted on the Metro website February 1, 2018:
Speaking at the GOP retreat in Virginia Thursday, Mr Trump shared a simpering anecdote from Senator Orrin Hatch.
He recalled:'(Orin) said once, I am the single greatest president in his lifetime.
‘Now he’s a young man, so it’s not that much, but he actually once said I’m the greatest president in the history of our country.
And I said ‘Does that include Lincoln and Washington?’ and he said ‘Yes,’ and I said ‘I love this guy’. Orrin Hatch’s Wikipedia bio was vandalized after the comments were made.
Trump failed to play down the extreme praise, and instead called Hatch ‘a very spectacular man.’
But many took exception to the comment – with Hatch’s Wikipedia updated soon after to slate his devotion to Trump.
The semi-fictional bio read: ‘Orrin Grant Hatch or “Tooly McToolface” has officially bent the knee to emperor Trump and stated he is a better President than George Washington founder of this Nation and Abraham Lincoln who abolished slavery.
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