The Deeply Disturbing Reason Donald Trump Thinks that "Everyone" Agrees He's the Best President Ever and Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize
As someone blessed with both autism and ADHD, I have an overdeveloped sense of fairness and honesty. Though the logical, rational part of my brain understands that the world is chaos, madness, and insanity—and that’s on good days—a childlike part of my fractured psyche stubbornly insists that people should be honest and fair. I consequently never stop being disappointed.
This also lends a special intensity to my hatred of Donald Trump. There’s part of me that still refuses to believe that a demented clown you might remember from such films as Ghosts Can’t Do It, The Little Rascals, and The Associate was even considered seriously for elected office, let alone elected president twice.
I get angry when Trump lies egregiously. That ensures that, like the Incredible Hulk, I am always angry.
Yet there are special categories of Trump lies that make me particularly apoplectic.
Specifically, my brain threatens to explode every time that Trump insists that a culture-wide consensus has formed that his second term in office represents the greatest stretch in presidential history.
According to Trump, everyone agrees that he has accomplished more this year than any other president, including buffoons like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, JFK, and Ronald Reagan.
Trump has also expressed annoyance that he has not won a Nobel Prize, despite widespread, even universal, agreement that he deserves one. This perhaps has something to do with Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, and Barack Obama all being Nobel Peace Prize winners.
By his own estimation, Trump’s mastery of diplomacy and silver tongue has ended over eleventy million wars in just the past few months.
Isn't that more important than that uppity black guy in the tan suit that got one as DEI/woke run amok?
Trump celebrated his six months in office by bragging on Truth Social, “Wow, time flies! Today is the Sixth Month Anniversary of my Second Term. Importantly, it’s being hailed as one of the most consequential periods of any President. One year ago, our Country was DEAD, with almost no hope of revival. Today, the USA is the ‘hottest’ and most respected Country anywhere in the World. Happy Anniversary!!!”
Trump claims that every leader of N.A.T.O and various royals from the Middle East all praised our nation under his leadership, using the same terminology that he uses to praise himself. What are the odds? I guess everyone just agrees that no adjective better describes our country under Trump than HOTTEST. That phrase generally applies more to nightclubs and upcoming rappers, but in Trump's world, everyone now applies it to our crumbling Republic under this leadership.
I was getting angry at Trump, as I am wont to do, when I made a horrifying realization: the president says that everyone agrees that he’s the best president ever, and also that it’s an unforgivable crime that a beligerant bully who has made a point of antagonizing everyone he finds insufficiently worshipful towards him hasn’t won the Nobel Prize because, in his mind, that is true.
For his second term, Trump appointed a cabinet solely on the basis of loyalty. For Trump, loyalty isn’t enough. He doesn’t just want to work with people who are loyal to him. He demands not just loyalty but obedience, worship, and adulation. He doesn’t want to be seen as a good president; he demands to be heralded as the best president.
Many of the cabinet members Trump appointed during his first term harshly criticized him after being fired or quitting in disgust. Trump isn’t going to let that happen this time around.
Trump recently held a public cabinet meeting that ran over three hours and allowed the public to soak in the dynamic between a dementia-addled dictator and a cabinet that knows that the surest way to the president’s heart is through his massive ego.
The president’s underlings engaged in a feverish competition to outdo one another for over-the-top sycophancy.
Steve Witkoff, the Special Envoy to the Middle East, gushed, “There’s only one thing I wish for: that the Nobel Committee finally gets its act together and realizes that you are the single finest candidate ever for a Nobel Peace Prize. Your success is game-changing out in the world today, and I hope everybody one day wakes up and realizes that.”
You might think that Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Elie Wiesel, and Nelson Mandela were, in some ways, finer candidates for a Nobel Peace Prize than a man on record bragging about grabbing women by the genitalia and his close friend Jeffrey Epstein’s womanizing prowess, one that nearly matches his own and tilts, as Trump noted approvingly, to girls on the young (underage) side. Not in Witkoff’s estimation. To him, NO ONE in the history of the Nobel Prize deserves it more than Trump.
Witkoff wants to wake up on Christmas morning to discover that Santa granted his greatest and most sincere wish: for Donald Trump to be recognized for his peerless contributions to humanity.
It’s about time that children in Africa who are starving to death because the US cut off humanitarian aid to their countries, because doing so does not fit Trump’s America First agenda, wake up and realize that Trump’s “success is game-changing out in the world today.”
That accomplishment is dwarfed by Attorney General Pam Bondi’s claim in April, during another cabinet meeting, that Trump saved “258 million lives” by cutting off Fentanyl smuggling at the border. If you and your family have not all died of Fentanyl overdoses, you have Donald Trump to thank.
But have you thanked him? I’m not sure that you did.
Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-Deremer admonished Trump to gaze adoringly at a massive banner of his “big, beautiful face” that was hanging on the side of her department’s headquarters.
Chavez-Deremer told a man who has been sued dozens, if not hundreds of times, by contractors for non-payment, “You are really the transformational President of the American worker.”
Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins compared Trump to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, gushing, “I do believe we’re in a revolution. 1776 was the first one, 1863 or so with Abraham Lincoln was the second. This is the third, with Donald Trump leading the way. And we are saving America.”
To cite another example, puppy-killer Kristi Noem engendered widespread mockery with her ridiculous recent claim that Los Angeles “wouldn’t be standing” if Trump hadn’t dispatched unwanted troops to the city in June. “That city would have burned down,” Noem insisted.
Because he is a deluded narcissist, Trump interprets these crazed displays of sycophancy as facts shared by tens of millions of Americans whose voices have been silenced by an evil, Fake News media that is sick and insane and devoted exclusively to trying to make him look bad by reporting accurately on his words and actions.
To Trump, the grotesque flattery of the spineless billionaires in his cabinet represents the real feelings of the American people. That’s why he can say that “everyone” says he’s the best president and should win the Nobel Prize.
If you only listen to people who offer comically over-the-top praise and dismiss everyone else as America-hating, evil, lunatics, then it’s easy to convince yourself that they speak for nearly everyone, not just themselves.
The truly fucked up part of this all is that Trump genuinely seems to believe that “everyone” is gushing about him. Nothing will convince him otherwise because, like all narcissists, he believes what he wants to believe, and that is invariably that he is god-like in his powers and not satanic in his capacity for destruction.
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