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After years of mocking Obama as "the anointed one" — a title Obama never used himself and which was born in the minds of GOP nutjobs — I'm sure that the right wing posters here on this forum will be happy to denounce Trump as an embarrassment to the US after this delusional rant.

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can we not

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Why does Trump restrict his access to the press to in front of Marine One? His comments were a word salad of ignorance, paranoia, and megalomenia. One should be worried about his health.

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Trump: I'm the chosen one....

Putin: Yes, I did in fact choose you....comrade....

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Can't wait to see how Kellyanne Conway spins this one...

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Evangelicals seem already to have made that leap. They are no longer followers of Jesus, they are followers of Trump.

Any sane person can be excused for believing that Trump must have been joking today in calling himself "the Chosen One" and referring to a very nice tweet he got (and then re-sent out to the world, apparently) likening Trump to the "Kind of Israel" and the "second coming of God."

Of course -- Trump never jokes. He has no sense of humor. What he DOES have is an increasingly scrambled brain and a narcissism that is verging on genuine madness.

Anyone who's ever worked in the psychiatric ward of a hospital will tell you there is usually at least one person walking around proclaiming him/her self as God, the Son of God, the Second Coming or, at the least, "the Chosen One."

So, at least he's not alone and has good company!  Pity he's currently living in the wrong place to enjoy that companionship.

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what a raving loon

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Why does Trump restrict his access to the press to in front of Marine One? His comments were a word salad of ignorance, paranoia, and megalomenia. One should be worried about his health.

Probably so the moment he keels over in a brain aneurysm they can fly him to hospital

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Are we all surprised here?......lol.....Should'nt we already be demonizing other countries opposed to Trump?

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Insane.

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The FACT is that Trump WAS CHOSEN BY THE ELECTORATE! Was there Divine influence? I would like to think so.

People of faith would agree.

Daniel 2:21

"It is He who changes the times and the epochs; He removes kings and establishes kings; He gives wisdom to wise men And knowledge to men of understanding.

John 19:11

Jesus answered, "You would have no authority over Me, unless it had been given you from above;"

Just saying.

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He gives wisdom to wise men And knowledge to men of understanding.

Probably the most hilarious passage here...

Clearly insane but people talk about him, so it is a win, I guess...

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There are posters on this site who've been able to interpret what Trump says, for example the ones who clarified what 'whup whup' meant. Maybe one of them can interpret Trump's latest statement re being 'chosen' to try to convince me the man's not completely whack.

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The FACT is that Trump WAS CHOSEN BY THE ELECTORATE! Was there Divine influence? I would like to think so.

He won the election, but the electorate chose someone else.

"It is He who changes the times and the epochs; He removes kings and establishes kings; He gives wisdom to wise men And knowledge to men of understanding.

So every elected (or not elected!) official anywhere in the world is The Chosen One?

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The FACT is that Trump WAS CHOSEN BY THE ELECTORATE! Was there Divine influence? I would like to think so.

Lol there is absolutely nothing Christlike about Donny. He's spent his entire life sleeping around on his wives, cheating business partners and customers.

If this is God's will, we need a better God.

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Trump doesn’t realize the consequences of what he’s doing. Russia has half the population of the US, yet graduates as many STEM students as the US. Russia is at the cutting edge of nuclear applications, aircraft and military technology and China is at the cutting edge of manufacturing technology. Trump is forcing them together and they are finding out that working together is a win-win situation.

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Two things are concerning here;

1) Ask health care specialists and they'll tell you when someone presents themselves as a "Chosen One", the "Apostle", or some other delusion of grandeur, they're immediately referred for a psychological examination. That statement sounds like something that would come out Mein Kampf. Trump may have spent too much time with, Kim the "Dear Leader"....

2) Trump again invokes religious imagery in a political setting - just after his ridiculous claim about Jewish voters. Religion has no place in US politics - unless you are a fan of the mullahs. Keep religion out of politics.

This is yet another example of his deteriorating mental state and the onset of dementia...

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We have enough nutters around the world claiming divine rights from above.

Even by Trump’s standards, the last few days have been a blizzard of stupidity, trash and nonsense. He’s in campaign mode. He did the same thing when running last time. There is just so much garbage flying around, you can’t focus on any one thing.

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You cannot make this stuff up! After years of GOP morons calling Obama "the anointed one" and "the chosen one", many on here before being suspended after being told not to continue it, Trump literally steals the words from their mouths and uses it on himself. hahahaha. Classic!

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The biggest garbage flying around is Trumps bigotry and racism and his contempt for the world!

I dunno. He’s awful, but there are other crazed nutters out there who think they are doing the bidding of the divine.

Maybe Trump would like to be something like an Ayatollah.

That would be terrifying.

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Wow... and he called himself the "King of the Jews", too. Unbelievable, after being one of the most anti-semitic people on the planet, calling Nazis "fine people".

I think it's getting pretty hard for posters here and Trump defenders in general to pretend they have a modicum of common sense while defending the guy. And my gods... the man even just announced to veterans the he deserves the Medal of Honor. For bone spurs? Draft dodging?

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but one thing sort of worries me, he has been so hostile to the press, he made them enemies ... so its hard to know if what he says is true or not? Or maybe exaggerated or taken out of context?

One one hand, he has said so many silly things ... why are surprised?

but on the other hand, he "should" know better!

He is certainly one of a kind, and one thought comes to mind, if Obama was so good .... how on earth did Trump get voted in? hhmmm?

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Just when you thought delusional absurdity superweek was done with the Greenland affair......

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Is he going to bring balance to the Force?

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Trump keeps a book of Hitler's speeches at his bedside. Known fact. He posted pictures of Hillary with a Star of David while claiming she was a money grubber. Fact. He told Jewish Americans -- AMERICANS -- that their nation is not the USA, but Israel. Fact. A mere few facts that prove he is not the "second coming" (which doesn't apply to Judaism anyway, in the first place), and the man who defends Trump here is a well-known racist and conspiracy theorist. And Trump and his cronies love him!

Trump is going down faster and faster.

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Is he going to bring balance to the Force?

I was thinking more of Neo in the Matrix.

Maybe they could download some sense into his head.

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I'm a little confused. Yesterday, we were told that criticising Isreal is antisemitic. However, criticsing Jews who oppose Trump is also antisemitic.

Now that Trump is 'The Chosen One', if you don't support him, is that antisemitic, too?

I guess if you don't support any of them, it's got to be antisemitic. Right?

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"the best president for Israel in the history of the world"

Yeah, we here in the U.S. are beginning to notice that. We don't seem to be having the same experience here in America and these two conditions may be linked. How intimately depends on how much you study it. But, fer shure, they have don's number and are absolutely brazen in their manipulation of him. It's embarrassing, really. But they understand him so well because they are him also, but significantly more coherent in their thinking. Does don have a conscience? Does he have altruism or even sympathy for the growing desperation in America driving the blossoming suicide rate, seen nowhere more than in our physicians and our police, and those can't-do-it-myself, violent suicides of the rare psychopath driven to extreme desperation? Most go quietly. And, undeniably this same lack of core Humanity illuminates like a halo those who manipulate our President so openly and like a small child. Next, they'll have him saying he's Santa Claus. Have we heard anything at all about a POTUS physical exam lately? I haven't.

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Pence needs to take over due to mental incompetence. I find that extremely scary.

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but one thing sort of worries me, he has been so hostile to the press, he made them enemies ... so its hard to know if what he says is true or not? Or maybe exaggerated or taken out of context?

You can watch the video for yourself.

He is certainly one of a kind, and one thought comes to mind, if Obama was so good .... how on earth did Trump get voted in? hhmmm?

Obama wasn't running for President in 2016.

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Excellent.  He really does love to wind the world up.  Wait for him to do a Criss Angel "walking on water" stunt to prove this assertion.

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This guy just plain showed it himself, he claims to be a messiah - but his actions and words have proven that he's an antichrist.

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At this point I think the pressure of being in office is leading the old coot toward a massive stroke. He's obviously struggling with rapidly detriorating brain function. And I am not saying this just because I despise that obscene toad. I am saying that because his behavior is becoming more and more bizarre and erratic. Claiming to be the Messiah and telling the Jews they are disloyal if they don't vote for him is borderline insane.

Usually people who claim to be the Messiah are locked up in Bellevue.

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President Trump is once again correct; he’s the “Chosen One”: Chosen by American voters in November 2016.

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The Chosen One living comfortably in the minds of all his haters.

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He act's like he's in grade 1.

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SneezyToday  10:56 am JST

I'm sure that the right wing posters here on this forum will be happy to denounce Trump as an embarrassment to the US after this delusional rant.

My initial thought on reading this was "of course they won't."

A perfunctory skim of the rest of the comments has proved me correct.

zichiToday  01:25 pm

**Texas A&M Aggie: **President Trump is once again correct; he’s the “Chosen One”: Chosen by American voters in November 2016.

The voters chose Hilary. The Electoral College chose Trump.

I think Texas A@whatever is trying to keep repeating that so that he'll start believing it himself. Obviously a bit sensitive about being in a minority.

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And there was me thinking he meant The Chōsen One and he was about to take sides with Korea against Japan.

More like the Anti-Christ deceiving people with signs and wonders, no ?

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President Trump is once again correct; he’s the “Chosen One”: Chosen by American voters in November 2016.

So, was Obama the Chosen One for eight years? Is Kim Jong Un the Chosen One?

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Trump: "I am the chosen one!"

OK. It's time to enact the 25th Amendment. This guy is nuts and he's dangerous.

Never hand over high powered car to a small child (in this case a man-child) with learning difficulties. If he does some how get behind the wheel, then you must take the keys away. Whatever you do, don't let him drive.

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If Trump is the chosen one, I’m definitely an atheist.

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The FACT is that Trump WAS CHOSEN BY THE ELECTORATE! Was there Divine influence? I would like to think so. 

People of faith would agree.

I would like to think you are joking, but maybe not, and are in fact showing just how much Trump plays to the religious right.

I could also do a bit of quote mining from an old book and also find that Trump is straight out of Revelations.

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Reagan's "Bomb Russia" faux pas pales into insignificance with what President Maggotbrain has been coming out with lately. First he cancels a state visit to Denmark because they won't sell Greenland to him, prior to that he insults Sweden because they arrested an American rapper... now he claims he's the Chosen One...

I think Caligula has been reborn!

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Also, add the fact that federal health officials ensured that no one would contradict Trump when Trump mentioned that mental illness was the cause of the mass shootings in El Paso.

https://news.yahoo.com/video/u-mental-health-staff-warned-015444564.html

Many signs that Trump is a full-on narcissist and wants people to do exactly as he says. He wants to take away everyone's freedom of speech and thought. He sounds so much like an evangelical or fake pastor who brainwashes his flock to give away your money and freedoms.

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Heh, he wasn't even chosen by his own people. They chose Hillary.

The man's narcissistic delusion knows no bounds.

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Trump has mental disabilities. Him being dumb is a different thing. The two are not mutually exclusive. He wins the double whammy.

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The FACT is that Trump WAS CHOSEN BY THE ELECTORATE! Was there Divine influence? I would like to think so. People of faith would agree.

Do you really think that the God of the Bible would make Trump his "chosen one"?

Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.

Numbers 31:17

I take your point, perhaps Trump would be the chosen one reading this particular verse. I expect that he would take on the job with relish.

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And there was me thinking he meant The Chōsen One and he was about to take sides with Korea against Japan.

I didn't laugh but clever - good effort! It might work as a political cartoon.

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President Trump is once again correct; he’s the “Chosen One”: Chosen by American voters in November 2016.

He certainly is the "Chosen One" - chosen by;

Former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke: “We are determined to take our country back,” Duke said from the rally, calling it a “turning point.” “We are going to fulfill the promises of Donald Trump. That’s what we believed in. That’s why we voted for Donald Trump, because he said he’s going to take our country back.”

White Supremacist Richard Spencer: “Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory!” is how Richard B. Spencer greeted an audience of more than 200 attendees of an alt-right conference Washington D.C. He was met with enthusiastic cheers and Nazi salutes.

Neo Nazi on 4chan: What Dems, all leftists and pundits do not understand is that TRUMP is patriots' and Western/American Heritage's CHAMPION."

And we already know he was Putin's choice.....

Some group, huh?

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It’s typical of their shallow thinking that they’re mocking Trump over Greenland. Had Obama been the one announcing American interest in a piece of real estate a third the size of Australia, richly endowed with economic potential, and a population of only 56K that’s projected to shrink to around 40K by 2100, our usual suspects would be lauding him as a visionary and man of genius. It’s telling that senior figures in Greenland have been quoted as saying that the Chinese have already been waving the prospect of largesse directed their way if they allow them a similar bridgehead that heaven and earth couldn’t convince those same Chinese that it is in their interest not to be intransigent about Korean reunification and the likelihood of US troops facing them across the Yalu River.

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This is plain wrong anyway: “They love him like he's the second coming of God."

In Christianity and even in Islam they talk about the ‘second coming of Jesus’, never about God. Two very different concepts for anyone who makes the very least attempt to be religious.

Still, who would want facts to get in the way of some pure emotion?

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Still, who would want facts to get in the way of some pure emotion?

Religion is all emotion, and no fact.

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Religion is all emotion, and no fact.

Is that a fact?

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Is that a fact

Yep. Anyone claiming to know what happens after we die is relying on emotion. Factually none of us know what happens after we die.

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oyatoi Today  03:51 pm JST

Had Obama been the one announcing...

He wasn't so what anyone might have said about it is neither here nor there. I suspect Donald Trump would have been tweeting that it was sheer lunacy though.

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To put it mildly, Trump has jumped the shark and is taking us all along on his ride to crazyville.

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"I am the chosen one," he said, turning and looking up to the sky. "Somebody had to do it."

Hahahahahahahaha, oh man, gotta love how Trump trolls you Trump haters.

Hey, it was either Trump or Eddie Murphy to do it, and Murphy's pretty much retired, hahaha

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And still, Americans are not worried about their president?

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And we already know he was Putin's choice.....

Well, lincolnman, look at the alternative we had. Trump was the choice of A LOT of people. I bet most Libyans preferred him after what his predecessor and that guy's secretary of state did to their country.

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Liberals fall right into the trap every single time lol

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SerranoToday  06:16 pm JST

"I am the chosen one," he said, turning and looking up to the sky. "Somebody had to do it."

Hahahahahahahaha, oh man, gotta love how Trump trolls you Trump haters.

You think trolling's a worthwhile activity, then.

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And still, Americans are not worried about their president?

Nah, we're still not tired of winning.

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BlacklabelToday  06:29 pm JST

Liberals fall right into the trap every single time lol

And every single time you make the far-fetched claim that Trump has actually said or done something smart.

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You think trolling's a worthwhile activity, then.

Depends on if it's an effective defense against media bias and liberal hate, which it is in Trump's case.

If Trump's tweets were so harmful to society, wouldn't Twitter have terminated his account?

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And the Trumpers again bow down to the wisdom of their 4D chess master....

While in the real world the Great Orange Megalomaniac again shows everyone how mentally disturbed he is....

The Chosen One will soon be demanding Heil Hitler like salutes at all his rallies....

And the scary thing is....his supporters will do it......

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Not like he got “chosen one” tattooed all across his back or anything. Now that would be ridiculous.

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I didn’t say he was smart. Liberals are dumb got falling for the same trap over and over again. Just as helpless as that coyote in the Roadrunner cartoons. Just keep falling for nonsense again and again while trying more and now insane things to try to succeed just once.

A person doesn’t have to be smart if their opponents are irrational and self destructive.

And every single time you make the far-fetched claim that Trump has actually said or done something smart.

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Delusional .... another proof he’s unfit to be President of the United States of America (POTUS).

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In a tweet, Trump quoted Root calling the president "the best president for Israel in the history of the world" 

Oh, Donald is prez' of Israel now ? I thought that was Bibi Netanyahu. He's bought the place ?

"like he's the King of Israel. 

He should prepare a cross with a plate saying : "Dōnaldus Nūevayorkus, Rēx Iūdaeōrum"

That would be funny in a TV show. At the White House, that's scary.

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The guy is truly off his rocker.

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the bought and paid for trump opposition is getting desperate. hanging on and morphing his every word. they are using simple child psychology on the masses to sway opinion, its not working. lol only an idiot would believe the garbage propaganda they throw out.

get ready for them to spend billions to try to crash the economy before the election.

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Not like he got “chosen one” tattooed all across his back or anything. Now that would be ridiculous.

It certainly would be.....but I hear he does have a heart tattoo with Donnie and Vlad inside....

I didn’t say he was smart.

BINGO!

Liberals are dumb got falling for the same trap over and over again. Just as helpless as that coyote in the Roadrunner cartoons. Just keep falling for nonsense again and again while trying more and now insane things to try to succeed just once.

Once more, a Trumper uses a cartoon to explain Trump...

A person doesn’t have to be smart if their opponents are irrational and self destructive.

I'm not touching that one...

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And still, Americans are not worried about their president?*

Nah, we're still not tired of winning.

> Well with a statement like that he wont be winning the next election thank god. Of all things.... That was the wrong thing to say.

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President Trump is once again correct; he’s the “Chosen One”: Chosen by American voters in November 2016

Exactly! Summed it up and cut through the entire mud. Now I knew when he made that statement, liberals were going to attach a religious component to it, you knew that was evident. Lol

And every single time you make the far-fetched claim that Trump has actually said or done something smart

Still wondering when the liberals will do something smart? Any day now.....should be coming....yawn...

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Exactly! Summed it up and cut through the entire mud. Now I knew when he made that statement, liberals were going to attach a religious component to it, you knew that was evident. Lol

You yourself have said you literally think Trump is a divine being.

Anyway, after spending eight years mocking Obama as “the anointed one”, a phrase neither he nor his supporters ever used, are you going to mock Trump for literally calling himself the Chosen One, and citing a mind-damaged conspiracy theorist who called Trump the King of Israel?

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Not like he got “chosen one” tattooed all across his back or anything. Now that would be ridiculous.

If he did, you’d say it was brilliant genius anyway. Why can’t you far rightists just admit you love President Fatso’s boot on your throat?

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You yourself have said you literally think Trump is a divine being. 

No, great, but not divine of course not. Liberals used that line for their Holiness.

Anyway, after spending eight years mocking Obama as “the anointed one”, a phrase neither he nor his supporters ever used,

But believed....

are you going to mock Trump for literally calling himself the Chosen One, and citing a mind-damaged conspiracy theorist who called Trump the King of Israel?

Once again it was taken out of contacts as usual, if you listen to him correctly he never said he was the chosen one in the sense of being anointed by the almighty. He said the people chose him over the other candidate and he decided to take China head on and he’s right, he was the chosen one, if he wasn’t then he wouldn’t be president, blame the electoral college if you must.

If he did, you’d say it was brilliant genius anyway.

I certainly do believe that.

Why can’t you far rightists just admit you love President Fatso’s boot on your throat?

He’s not on my throat, I do as I please and I vote for the person that I like, free and willingly and I like this man, a lot. Just like the Rush song-Freewill!

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If Trump's tweets were so harmful to society, wouldn't Twitter have terminated his account?

There are some people who think he should have been at least suspended for retweeting dodgy videos from a known racist organization.

I think that should have happened. He may have cleaned up his toilet of an account a little.

There are people who think Trump is a troll rather than delusional.

What is Twitter’s policy on trolls?

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President Trump is once again correct; he’s the “Chosen One”: Chosen by American voters in November 2016

Exactly! Summed it up and cut through the entire mud. Now I knew when he made that statement, liberals were going to attach a religious component to it, you knew that was evident. Lol

You just called Trump a Liberal - after saying he was the Chosen One, he glanced skyward - "attaching a religious component to it".....

And every single time you make the far-fetched claim that Trump has actually said or done something smart

Still wondering when the liberals will do something smart? Any day now.....should be coming....yawn...

Something smart? Like saying the British had airfields in the US in 1776?

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if you listen to him correctly he never said he was the chosen one in the sense of being anointed by the almighty

He gestured up to the sky as he said it. Who:what was he gesturing to?

Remember, nobody loves the Bible as much as Trump.

I’d stick with the line of Trump trolling if I were you.

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He's just an idiot who was born rich.

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There are some people who think he should have been at least suspended for retweeting dodgy videos from a known racist organization. 

There are many that thought he shouldn’t, primarily, because he himself didn’t make those statements.

I think that should have happened. He may have cleaned up his toilet of an account a little. 

I disagree.

There are people who think Trump is a troll rather than delusional. 

What is Twitter’s policy on trolls?

Twitter should be counting the cash happily, Trump made it What it is today.

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