Colby Cosh: Donald Trump, our self-styled lord and saviour

One of the iron lessons of the dual Trump presidencies has been that shamelessness works pretty well. If you continuously and confidently express the conviction that you are awesome, this will manifest itself as charisma. So on Sunday (of all days), when the president posted an unambiguous depiction of himself as Christ on his social-media site, I kept having to correct the thought “Well, the fellow’s gone too far this time.” Fool, going too far in self-praise is what he does! That’s his almost entire technique as a public figure! As the finest newspaper columnist in the entire English-speaking world, surely you must know this! Read More