"The fundamental bargain for a lot of Trump’s advisors, maybe the shorthand for it would be, 'He’s not a godly man, but he’s God’s man.'”

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"apart from the ways that these prophecies have impacted his existing megalomania and shaped it into a kind of Messianic narrative, and the way that he phrases that narrative is — especially in reference to the Butler, Pennsylvania assassination attempt — as “God saved me to save America.”

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"They literally say they hear from God, direct messages for leaders, for individuals, for nations. And there are now hundreds, maybe even 1000s, of prophecies about Donald Trump, many of them that have been spoken directly to him, and I don’t think you can even make sense of the way that Donald Trump is operating in office in the second term," (continued in /4)

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"I think one of the most important things to understand, especially in the present moment, is that these leaders have functionally enshrined Trump with a certain kind of holiness, with a narrative that he is a prophesied figure, quite literally, many of the people who surround Donald Trump as advisors would also identify as prophets and not in the 'Martin Luther King was a prophetic figure' kind of way."

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