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.

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    incredible.

    one wonders how insanely messianic he would have to get before 50.1% of evangelicals turned on him.

    like if he released a commercial of himself in a white robe with a golden light behind his head and all he said was, “Behold, I am the Christ reborn and the Lord God Almighty. Vote for me and send me $25/month or I will condemn you to eternal damnation” … I think it would be a coin toss tbh.

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      10 months ago

      I doubt he’d lose more than a handful of them doing that. They’re pig people who can’t do better. When I joined the original Qanon subreddit the day it was created, they were already hosting prayer threads to Trump within the first week.