Trump is much worse than ‘weird’ - His astonishing self-regard has been on full display of late.

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Trump is much worse than ‘weird’

His astonishing self-regard has been on full display of late.

By Colbert I. King

August 2, 2024 at 4:39 p.m. EDT

Donald Trump’s high regard for himself has been on full display. On July 26, he went to the Believers Summit in West Palm Beach, Fla., to glorify his endeavors on behalf of Christians. That same day, he used a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach to extoll the Trump administration’s treatment of Israel and emphasize the credit he feels is his due from American Jews. And on Wednesday, he went before an assembly of Black journalists in Chicago to proclaim, “I have been the best president for the Black population since Abraham Lincoln.”

The idea that Trump’s behavior is weird has caught on of late, and it is. And surely Trump’s messianic frame of mind has been a wonder — and scary sight — to behold.

“I love you, Christians,” Trump told Believers Summit attendees gathered under the umbrella of Turning Point Action, a conservative political advocacy group. “I’m a Christian. I love you. Get out, you gotta get out and vote. In four years, you don’t have to vote again, we’ll have it fixed so good you’re not going to have to vote.”

Bearing down, Trump said: “It’ll be fixed, it’ll be fine, you won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians.”

The nation has lost its way and is in decline, Trump told the audience of young Christian conservatives. He blamed low Christian voter turnout. “You know, I don’t want to scold you, but do you know that Christians do not vote proportionately? They don’t vote like they should. They’re not big voters,” Trump said. He produced no evidence of that. White Evangelicals and White Catholics overwhelmingly support the Republican Party. That matters not to Trump.

“We are not going to allow this horror to continue,” he declared. Vote like you should, Trump told them, and “we will soon be a great nation again.”

Then again, Trump believes he owns the truth on all things Israel and Jewish. At the Believers Summit, Trump said Vice President Harris, now the Democratic nominee for president, “doesn’t like Jewish people. She doesn’t like Israel. That’s the way it is, and that’s the way it’s always going to be. She’s not going to change.” In a radio interview Tuesday, he proclaimed that Jews who support Harris should “have their head examined.”

No matter that Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff, is Jewish. That as a student, Harris helped raise money for the Jewish National Fund. That she established a hate crimes unit as San Francisco’s district attorney and gave priority to combating antisemitism when she was California’s attorney general.

So much for that.

The best of Trump’s tour was saved for this week’s National Association of Black Journalists gathering in Chicago.

It was a disaster, with Trump exposing the racism, cynicism and hostility that lurk within his self-righteousness.

Set aside his repulsive dig at Harris’s heritage, his lies and evasive answers to straightforward questions from seasoned journalists, and his unhinged self-comparison to Lincoln. Step back to consider what has been on display.

Trump believes he knows what is true and right, because he’s blessed with superior knowledge. To his way of thinking, he’s entitled to be president, was victimized in the 2020 election by evil forces, and ought to be admired and praised for all he has done and for the presidential campaign he is waging now.

“Listen up Christians, Jews and Black people. I am the solution,” I can imagine Trump saying. Weird, yes. But ethically unbound and self-centered autocrats think that way.

The Washington Post

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