A 3,000-word “news analysis” by New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker on Trump’s supposed cult of personality was headlined cheekily: “A Superman, Jedi and Pope — Trump’s Relentless Bid to Mythologize Himself.”
The online version was more insulting: “Trump’s Relentless Self-Promotion Fosters an American Cult of Personality– President Trump has engaged in a spree of self-aggrandizement unlike any of his predecessors, fostering a mythologized superhuman persona and making himself the inescapable force at home and around the world.”
