#25thAmendmentNow trending at #21 in the United States.
Think we can crack the top 20? pic.twitter.com/T4gzlW9jXx
— Holly Figueroa O’Reilly (@AynRandPaulRyan) August 21, 2019
“I am the chosen one.”
He’s not just talking about trade.
He truly thinks he’s the chosen one, and so does his die-hard base of 35% of Americans who will never leave him.
Impeach. #25thAmendmentNow. Giant Meteor.
I don’t care. He just needs to go.pic.twitter.com/7gr25uWTJG
— Holly Figueroa O’Reilly (@AynRandPaulRyan) August 21, 2019
President Donald Trump is known for being absurd and off-the-wall, so there’s no doubt his defenders will write off his latest declaration of, “I am the Chosen One,” as just more playfulness from the commander-in-chief.
And on its own, the comment made Wednesday to reporters may indeed have been harmless. (Though conservative media, which accused President Barack Obama of having too high an opinion of himself, would have skewered the Democrat had he made such a claim while in office.)
But Trump’s boast was just one more point in a line of evidence that Trump has truly disturbing delusions of grandeur.
View the complete August 21 article by Cody Fenwick of AlterNet on the National Memo website here.