• bobagem@sh.itjust.works
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    This article traces the source of this particular long-time delusion / fabrication:

    After Trump made the claim in 2019, Trott contacted CNN to note that at a roundtable event with automotive executives in 2017, Trump had suggested he received the “Man of the Year” award at a 2013 event in Michigan where Trott had invited him to give a speech, a Lincoln Day dinner Trott had chaired in Oakland County. At that event, Trott gave Trump a framed copy of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and other gifts. But Trott emphatically noted that he did not give Trump any “Man of the Year” award, nor did anyone else there.

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/16/politics/fact-check-donald-trump-michigan-man-of-the-year/index.html

  • ApeNo1@lemm.ee
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    Either he fell asleep watching the movie below and confused it with his own reality, was inspired by it with his tactics to win elections, or Robin Williams is a time traveller.

    “Man of the Year”, 2006, starring Robin Williams.

    A comedian who hosts a news satire program decides to run for president, and a computerized voting machine malfunction gets him elected.

    Edit: I can’t spell Williams apparently.

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    Is he talking about the 2006 time’s person of the year where “you” was the person?

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    “The fakers back there, see the fake news. But they said. They said, ‘Oh,’ and they looked and it, you know, they said it never happened but I said, ‘I swear to you it happened.’ It did happen, I was man of the year,” said Trump before claiming that he touched on the auto industry in his “speech.”

    Totally coherent and fit to run the country. /s

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    So his plan is to always start rambling every time someone asks him a question. Great, awesome, fantastic, good plan.

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    Ahhh. A real question. I’m not going to answer that. Plus, there’s not even enough love for me in that question!

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      Hanlon’s Razor.

      Maybe there was a point in time where Trump would have ignored a question because it didn’t appeal to his narcissism, but I would venture that at this point his brain is too far gone for that.