Really, there was no reason to be surprised at the revelation that Donald Trump wanted to award himself the Congressional Medal of Honor.
“As president, I wanted to give myself the Congressional Medal of Honor, but they wouldn’t let me do it…they said that would be inappropriate.”*After all, we always knew that he thought himself to be top of the tree—and would do anything to boost himself up there.
Consider his golf game. He claims to have won 20 championships.** That’s a lie, of course. What is true is that he proclaimed himself winner of 20 championships.
Rick Reilly explained Trump’s method:
Whenever he opens a new golf course, because he owns 14 and operates another five, he plays the first club champion by himself and declares that the club championship and puts his name on the wall.
But it’s usually just him and Melania in the cart and nobody else. He just makes it up.
Jack Holmes added:
Imagine owning numerous golf clubs with your name plastered all over them and still needing to have your name up on the championship plaque, even though you know it's meaningless.
But fraudulent golf championship plaques aren’t the only fakery on the walls of Trump properties. There’s also the matter of the bogus Time magazine covers.
Although Donald Trump has repeatedly appeared on the cover of Time Magazine in the last year, the company is asking that a framed cover image of Trump be taken down from the walls of several golf clubs.
That's because the cover hanging in several Trump Organization clubs is a phony, a Time spokesperson confirmed to NBC News.
The March 1, 2009, cover was first identified as fake by The Washington Post . . .***
(Time didn’t publish on March 1, 2009.)
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Trump’s ego-fed self-elevation to (undeserved) top-ranking that his neediness seems to demand reminds me of an important event in European history: Napoleon’s self-crowning as Emperor in December 2, 1804 at the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris.
No, I do not equate Trump and Napoleon. One conquered most of Europe through armored might, while the other conquers golf championships by cheating and fakery.
(He once stole another golfer’s ball, claiming that the ball on the green was his, instead of the one he had shot into a water hazard.)
One was the Little Corsican; the other a little coarse man.
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* https://www.thewrap.com/trump-peeved-couldnt-give-himself-medal-of-honor/
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