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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAbout the "historian" who claimed Trump is the most powerful leader
in history, who is actually a chauffeur/taxi driver for someone Trump knows . . . .
Kind of reminds me of The Fool who is advising King Lear in the middle of the Storm.
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About the "historian" who claimed Trump is the most powerful leader (Original Post)
no_hypocrisy
Jun 19
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Trump touted document comparing him to Stalin -- that was written by golfer's caddy: CNN
LetMyPeopleVote
Jun 19
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Isn't that the historian who told Donny about George Washington taking over the airports
struggle4progress
Jun 19
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LetMyPeopleVote
(184,002 posts)1. Trump touted document comparing him to Stalin -- that was written by golfer's caddy: CNN
trump is truly an idiot
Trump touted document comparing him to Stalin â that was written by golfer's caddy: CNN
— Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2026-06-19T01:30:15.965Z
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-golf-2677061012/
A forthcoming book revealed that President Donald Trump once touted a document that he received comparing him to world leaders like Josef Stalin and Adolf Hitler, which he claimed was written by a "presidential historian" but was actually written by the caddy of one of Trump's golf partners, according to a new report.
New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan interviewed Trump for their forthcoming book, Regime Change, in March, where the president showed the reporters a document that argued he was more powerful than some of the most powerful strongmen in history, like Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler. After doing a little digging, the reporters found out the document was not authored by a presidential historian, as Trump claimed, but was written by Gary Player's long-time caddy, who gave Trump the document at Mar-a-Lago, CNN reported.
"But when Swan and Haberman tried to find the author, it turned out he was not a historian, but actually Players longtime caddy and personal confidant. The caddy told Haberman and Swan that he 'had first shared his assessment of Trumps power with Player and later explained it directly to Trump over golf in Florida,'" according to the report.
New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan interviewed Trump for their forthcoming book, Regime Change, in March, where the president showed the reporters a document that argued he was more powerful than some of the most powerful strongmen in history, like Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler. After doing a little digging, the reporters found out the document was not authored by a presidential historian, as Trump claimed, but was written by Gary Player's long-time caddy, who gave Trump the document at Mar-a-Lago, CNN reported.
"But when Swan and Haberman tried to find the author, it turned out he was not a historian, but actually Players longtime caddy and personal confidant. The caddy told Haberman and Swan that he 'had first shared his assessment of Trumps power with Player and later explained it directly to Trump over golf in Florida,'" according to the report.
no_hypocrisy
(55,748 posts)2. Point taken. I heard it was a taxi driver/chauffeur.
struggle4progress
(127,213 posts)3. Isn't that the historian who told Donny about George Washington taking over the airports
and the Bowling Green massacre and the Batlle of Blood River?