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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump ass-kisser labeling him "the most powerful man that the planet has ever known". Trump loves it.
President Trump is leaning into the idea that he is the mightiest figure in history. In a Truth Social post on Thursday, Trump posted a document he said was from a presidential historian that compares him to the likes of Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler, and concludes that Trump is, "without question, the most powerful man that the planet has ever known." The author of the document turns out to be Dave King, who is not a historian but the longtime caddy and confidante of pro golfer and Trump friend Gary Player. CNN suspects Trump posted the document to get out in front of a snippet about it in the forthcoming book Regime Change.
https://www.newser.com/story/391358/trump-embraces-most-powerful-man-ever-title.html
In a March sit-down with the book's authors, New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, Trump produced the document from King and began reading from it. "They didn't have airplanes, right? You couldn't travel around," Trump told the authors of the long-ago figures, per Axios. King's argument is that, unlike the figures from history, Trump is able to wield "power on a global scale" and thus is "by far the most powerful person that has EVER walked this planet."
sboatcar
(923 posts)He may sit in the seat of power, but he's never been able to use it properly.
Ocelot II
(131,826 posts)I guess it is if you're a power-mad wannabe despot, but Trump's power is becoming more and more illusory.
31st Street Bridge
(263 posts)Or raped children.
Emile
(44,131 posts)RainCaster
(13,950 posts)That is why nobody wanted to be near him at the G7.