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Trump’s relentless self-promotion fosters an American cult of personality
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Mr Trump’s efforts to promote himself as the singularly dominant figure in the world have become so commonplace that they no longer seem surprising.
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Peter Baker
WASHINGTON – The racist online video that US President Donald Trump recently shared and then deleted generated a bipartisan furor because of its portrayal of former president Barack Obama and his wife Michelle as apes. What was little remarked on was how it presented Mr Trump himself – as the “King of the Jungle”.
After a year back in the White House, Mr Trump’s efforts to promote himself as the singularly dominant figure in the world have become so commonplace that they no longer seem surprising.
