On Wednesday, right after President Donald Trump rush to retweet a quote by a conspiracy theorist who praises him as “the King of Israel,” Donald Trump told a group of reporters that he considered himself “the Chosen One.”
This comment he made while gazing up at the sky, as The Washington Post reported.
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Two days later, on Friday at a press conference as Trump was departing for his trip to the Group of Seven summit in France he took his comment back.
I was joking he said when a reporter asked Trump what he had meant by referring to himself as the “chosen one.”
“You know exactly when I meant. It was sarcasm. It was joking. We were all smiling. And a question like that is just fake news,” Trump said according to AP.
Then the president rushed to Twitter and repeated his claim.
When I looked up to the sky and jokingly said “I am the chosen one,” at a press conference two days ago, referring to taking on Trade with China, little did I realize that the media would claim that I had a “Messiah complex.” They knew I was kidding, being sarcastic, and just….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 24, 2019
….having fun. I was smiling as I looked up and around. The MANY reporters with me were smiling also. They knew the TRUTH…And yet when I saw the reporting, CNN, MSNBC and other Fake News outlets covered it as serious news & me thinking of myself as the Messiah. No more trust!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 24, 2019
“The president was decidedly not smiling when he anointed himself ‘the chosen one’ while looking up at the sky,” wrote Slate correspondent Daniel Politi.
Vox reporter Aaron Rupar calling Trump’s claim “a demonstrable lie,” while he put together a video that features Trump was not smiling nither joking.
Trump’s claim that he was “just having fun” and “smiling” when he referred to himself as “the chosen one” the other day is a demonstrable lie. Here’s the tweet Trump posted trying to rewrite history, followed by the video. pic.twitter.com/Y1VT5diqN2
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 24, 2019
Not only did Trump clearly appear straight-laced
At some event, when Trump declared himself “the Chosen One,” he made more other bizarre and sometimes shocking comments. He started by the accusation that Jews are untrustworthy because they are more loyal to fellow Jews, or to the state of Israel. He repeats of his earlier accusation of “disloyalty” against American Jews who vote for Democratic Party.
Trump: “Just having fun”
