Why Did This Man Compare Donald Trump to … Jesus Christ?
The amount of adulation—and criticism—Donald Trump has received this election cycle has been unprecedented. No candidate has attracted the record-breaking crowds he has; then again, no candidate has recently been called an “egomaniacal madman who has no principles” either. But this comparison may be new, even for The Donald.
Scott Adams, the cartoonist who created Dilbert, compared him to Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
Adams, who spends a fair amount of time writing about politics on his blog, has said he is 98 percent certain that Trump—whom he calls a “Clown Genius”—will win the Republican presidential nomination and become the 45th president of the United States.
This is due largely to Trump’s ability to communicate, he said. “I see Trump employing a series of linguistic maneuvers that display such a high level of talent in that area that nobody sees it coming,” Adams recently told The Daily Beast, a liberal website.
Adams says Trump’s campaign slogan—”Make America Great Again”—is part of a larger narrative used by some pretty famous people.
“But history has turned on a few people — like the Founding Fathers and Jesus Christ come to mind — who used the same tricks: They describe to people a better vision of themselves.”
Is The Donald like The Way, The Truth, and The Life? Do you think Trump is succeeding, because he offers a vision of his own kind of Promised Land?
