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Trump Goes Full Cult-Leader and Says He’s the Second Most Famous Person in the World, Behind Jesus

It is true that Donald Trump is very famous. Want to know some other famous people? Hitler is still very famous. Stalin. Jeffery Dahmer is pretty famous. On the good side of things, Martin Luther King Jr. is still pretty famous, and you can find the most isolated village in Africa and they will know who Mohammed Ali was, while not caring nor knowing anything about a “Donald Trump.” Bob Marley is famous throughout the world, and probably as many people still visit Elvis’s place as Trump’s current digs.

Being famous in and of itself isn’t an accomplishment. I could do something horrific in the next few hours and be famous for centuries. Longing for fame just for the sake of fame isn’t anything to which to aspire. But it sure as hell is to Donald Trump, who told a “friend story” today – which, of course, means that part of his mind told another part of his mind a story.

You know who else is more famous? Barack Obama, still. Go back to those isolated villages where people of color live, they know Barack Obama. But they couldn’t give two fcks about this fat white guy in a suit who took over.  Know who else is more famous, since we’re counting religious figures? Mohammed, but he doesn’t count, right, Donald? Because we’re only counting “the people in the cult.”

Fame for the sake of fame is called “vanity” and that’s not associated with anything good – yet there you are, bragging about it. You and Jesus Christ, quite the duo. One guy told stories about helping foreigners, one took away their kids, one indulged himself building a brand of “the luxury lifestyle,” the other loved living with the poor. One guy likes nothing more than parties at clubs where the wealthy gave him money, one guy went absolutely fcking nuts at the temple with the money lenders (the only time he was angry we read), one guy said blessed are the sick, one guy said the sick aren’t really sick and they can get all the healthcare they want so long as they can pay the bill on the way out the door, we could do this all day. Trump may think he’s just as famous as Jesus but in comparison, he’s … well, still an asshole. And if you’re a big enough asshole, you WILL be very famous.

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Jason
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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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