Another U.S. president — like Trump — also compared himself to Jesus: historian
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Donald Trump's "Messiah complex" may have reached its peak last month when the former president announced he was selling $59.99 'God Bless the USA' Bibles.Laura Brodie noted in a TIME Magazine article the MAGA hopeful's recent antics include telling his supporters "that he’s suffering for their sake, sharing a faux courtroom sketch of Christ at his side, and circulating actor Jon Voight’s bizarre claim that he is being 'destroyed as Jesus.'"Boston College history professor Heather Cox...

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