Donald Trump has shared an eerie video on the eve of the Iowa caucuses in which he appears to proclaim himself God’s chosen emissary on earth, sent to deliver America back to prosperity.
The three-minute clip, posted to Truth Social on Sunday evening, opens on grainy footage of an LP turning on a record player, broadcasting an apparently ancient “sermon” in which the speaker intones: “And on 14 June 1946, God looked down on his planned paradise and said: ‘I need a caretaker.’ So God gave us Trump…”
What follows – set to a picture of the Republican tycoon as a toddler, followed by a montage of scenes from his presidency – is an extraordinary expression of Mr Trump’s Messiah Complex, bordering on sacrilege.
He did this because this is what his voters want. This fact upsets liberals so much, because they earnestly believe most Republicans are just Mitt Romney type dorks who got conned into voting for a blowhard. It breaks their brains when you tell them that trump voters want a divine overlord who is “tough on crime” (hates minorities) and “America first” (western hegemony).
The backhand irony for conservatives is that they already have a president like that
, but conservatives don’t pretend to have critical thinking skills, so this point usually isn’t worth pointing out.