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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Joe Sommerlad

What do Mother Teresa, Al Capone, Elvis and Jesus have in common? Trump has compared himself to all of them

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Donald Trump’s inflated sense of his own importance should not be news to anybody at this point but the sheer scale of the presumptive Republican presidential candidate’s self-regard remains a wonder to behold.

Not content with bragging about being so popular he could literally get away with murder, taking credit for the shape of the New York City skyline or claiming that the wars in Ukraine and Gaza would simply not have happened if he had remained in the White House, Trump appears to think of himself in ever-grander terms.

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