Trump in New Book: I am Greater Than Reagan

I don’t know how much of this is just typical Trump puffery, since he knew he was speaking with a friendly audience, or if the man is truly this deluded.

In a new book by Trump loyalists, Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie, President Trump is allowed to let his malignant narcissism have full reign.

For principled conservatives, this is madness, but the MAGA base will eat it up.

The president told the authors of “Trump’s Enemies: How the Deep State is Undermining the Presidency” — his allies Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie — that he would be considered the greatest president in U.S. history if his name weren’t Trump.

“The amazing thing is that you have certain people who are conservative Republicans that if my name weren’t Trump, if it were John Smith, they would say I’m the greatest president in history and I blow Ronald Reagan away,” Trump said, according to the Washington Examiner.

He desperately wants this to be true.

Donald Trump has lived his life as a grifter and a con, relying on his father’s fortune to keep him from sinking into total ruin. Everything since then has been through questionable business partnerships, and without seeing his tax returns (a move he promised, but like with his wedding vows, has failed to keep), we can’t know exactly who is keeping the Trump organization afloat.

Also, his outrageously laughable hairstyle has given him B-lister status among the reality TV set.

But that’s just it.

He’s famous for being a joke and a crooked businessman, who exemplified the excesses of the 80s.

He’s the sideshow freak prat falling for the crowd’s amusement.

And somehow, he bumbled his way into the White House.

Even then, he needed Fox News’ fawning coverage, along with the rest of a complicit media that couldn’t stop watching the train wreck in the 2016 primaries, to help him get that far.

So with two years under his belt and a host of scandals, economy-busting tariffs, a ballooning national debt, and emboldened enemies, what does he think puts him at the top of presidential greatness?

He lists regulation cuts (Ok, those were good), environmental “stuff” (Huh?), and his Supreme Court nominees (something any other Republican president could have done).

It gets better (or worse).

“If you said that conservative president John Smith did that, they would say he’s the greatest president. Far greater than Ronald Reagan,” Trump is quoted saying.

He really does have a problem with conservatives pointing to President Reagan as the ideal, when it comes to Republican leadership. He once referred to Reagan as a “con man,” who got nothing done.

It just further shows his lack of basic knowledge and his lifelong Democrat leanings.

He also lashed out at the media, describing 85 percent of the media as corrupt.

Something about a pot and a kettle comes to mind.

“But people have no idea how false and corrupt much of the media is,” he said. “When you read some of these stories, you pick up The New York Times, and they don’t call you for sources. They’ll say, ‘sources say,’ and there are no sources.”

Expect this new book to appeal to only the most devoted MAGAdooks. There’s nothing hard-hitting, and it only serves as another vehicle for Trump to stroke his own massive inferiority complex.

That he would dare put himself over Reagan should bother anyone that truly considers themselves to be conservative.

It should bother them because here is a Republican president less concerned about conservatism and more beholden to Trumpism, putting himself and his ego above the conservative ideals.

He will never be great, and his popularity numbers bear that out. History will not be kind to him.

But knowing his inflated sense of self is a valuable piece of information to have. Remember it when future books that reflect on the age of Trumpism are released, exploring where we were as a nation, that we could so easily fall into this trap.