Ego, Idolatry, and Coddling
2015 (context)
2015-06-16 (context/timeline) Trump announced he would seek the Republican nomination for president. He officially became the presidential nominee on July 1, 2016.
https://time.com/3923128/donald-trump-announcement-speech/
2019 “The Chosen One”
2019-08-21 Trump referred to himself as “the chosen one”.
2021
2021-01-06 People carried “Jesus is my Savior – Trump is my President” signs, even during the J6 riots.
2024
2024-07-13 (Context) Assassination attempt on Trump. After the attempt, someone built a Trump sculpture out of nails.
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/election-biden-trump-07-13-24
2025 January
2025-01-25 A Florida Congresswoman filed legislation to have Trump’s face carved into Mount Rushmore.
https://www.kbtx.com/2025/01/31/lawmaker-proposes-bill-carve-trump-mount-rushmore/
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/792
2025 February
2025-02-26 Trump posted an AI-generated video of Gaza as a beach resort, featuring several disturbing images including himself as a golden idol and Elon Musk vacationing in the war-torn land.
2025 May
2025-05-02 Trump posted an AI generated photo on social media of himself depicted as the Pope.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-ai-generated-photo-pope-vatican/
https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1918502592335724809
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114441543826801216
2025-05-04 The White House released an AI-generated image of Donald Trump as a Sith lord with a red saber in honor of May the 4th via Instagram. They wrote “Happy May the 4th to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics who are fighting so hard to bring Sith Lords, Murderers, Drug Lords, Dangerous Prisoners, & well known MS-13 Gang Members, back into our Galaxy. You’re not the Rebellion – you’re the Empire”.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DJPQ72FxNkC/?hl=en
2025-05-28 Trump posted an image on social media of himself, with the caption “He’s on a mission from God & nothing can stop what is coming”.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114588777076099501
2025-05-29 Representative Greg Steube introduced “The Make Autorail Great Again Act”. This is just one example of the Trump base trying to get in good graces with dictator Trump.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3660
2025 June
2025-06-14 Trump ordered a military parade for the Army and his birthday, though some felt it was simply a show of force.
2025-06-16 In another example of leaders trying to stroke Trump’s ego, the president of the European Council handed Trump a signed jersey and told him it’s because Trump was “playing for peace”.
https://www.tiktok.com/@cbsnews/video/7516913750734081293
2025 August
2025-08-06 Mega-donor and Apple (-polisher) CEO Tim Cook presented a gold-based plaque to Trump while announcing a $100B investment into the US with a 4-year plan for $600B. A compilation of how mega-donors repeatedly and shamefully grovel can be found at this link:
https://www.nytimes.com/video/business/economy/100000010328133/trump-apple-investment.html
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0O9QhwIkj5w
2025-08-13 In July, House Republicans proposed to rename the Kennedy Center after Melania Trump. By August 13 2025, Trump said he’d been asked to be head of the Kennedy center. By December 2025, Trump joked that the center should be renamed after himself. In reference to changes made to the center, one article wrote, “…a series of changes…most notably ousting its board of trustees and replacing them with GOP supporters who voted him (Trump) in as chairman of the board”.
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5413914-kennedy-centers-opera-house-melania-trump-gop/
2025-08-26 Trump had a banner of himself mounted upon the building across from the US Labor Department.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5471330-trump-banners-propaganda-washington/
https://www.newsweek.com/department-labor-trump-portrait-2119185
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FzZrYxgf7ZA
2025 December
2025-12-03 The Trump administration renamed the United States Institute of Peace after Trump to “reflect the greatest dealmaker in our nation’s history”. For context, the administration dismantled this nonprofit organization in March during DOGE.
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/04/g-s1-100576/trump-institute-of-peace-name
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/trump-us-institute-peace-renamed-musk-dismantled-rcna247367
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/politics/us-institute-of-peace-renamed-trump
https://x.com/StateDept/status/1996368099160080884
https://x.com/secrubio/status/1996368261827666104?s=46&t=-DGlDYI6esU-4We1z9gHiQ
2025-12-18 The Trump administration changed the name of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts to The Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts by unanimous vote from the members Trump himself put on the Kennedy center board. FYI, Trump announced the center would close in February 2026.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/30/politics/kennedy-center-cancelations-trump-name
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/30/donald-trump-kennedy-center/87906255007/
https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-kennedy-center-plans-sue-jazz-musician-canceled/story?id=128761195
2026 February
2026-02-02 Trump announced the Kennedy center would be shut down for two years for “renovations”. Renovations would include marble, furniture, gold inlay and gold trim. Trump said the renovations would not come from taxpayer money at all, stating quote, “zero taxpayer”. Meanwhile, a Gallup survey showed that millions of Americans were skipping meals in order to pay for their healthcare. The Gallup poll said, “In a nationally and state-representative survey of nearly 20,000 US adults conducted from June through August 2025, roughly one-third of respondents – the equivalent of more than 82 million Americans – said they have made at least one trade-off with daily living expenses to afford healthcare. Americans are also postponing retirement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi0AWU60RxE&list=WL&index=1&t=69s
https://news.gallup.com/poll/702596/one-third-americans-cut-back-cover-healthcare-expenses.aspx
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/02/nx-s1-5696489/kennedy-center-renovation-trump-questions
2026-02-05 Trump announced plans to rename Penn Station and Dulles Airport after himself in exchange for releasing federal funds for reconstruction.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/05/politics/schumer-trump-ny-funding-rename
https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-penn-station-dulles-airport-named-after-funding/story?id=129910999
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/06/trump-dulles-penn-rename-branding
2026-02-19 Trump had a banner of himself hung over the Department of Justice.
2026 March
2026-03-09 Trump reposted a YouTube video “Kim Clement prophesying about Donald Trump, 2007”. The video features Kim Clement saying, “This that shall take place shall be the most unusual thing, a transfiguration, a going into the marketplace, if you wish, into the news media – where Time Magazine will have no choice but to say what I want them to say, Newsweek, what I want to say, The View, what I want to say! Trump shall become a trumpet, says the Lord. Trump shall become a trumpet. I will raise up the Trump to become a trumpet and Bill Gates to open up the gate of a financial realm for the church, says the Lord.” The recording was from April 4, 2007 and recorded in Redding, California and goes on to refer to Trump as the gatekeeper. Another video is appended to the first one from an event on February 10, 2007 in Scottsdale, Arizona.
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/i-will-raise-up-the-trump-trump-promotes-wild-2007-prophesy/
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116200371638821370
2026-03-22 Trump ordered a hand-picked 3” commemorative Trump coin from the Commission of Fine Arts.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/03/22/trump-coin-controversy-update/89245184007/
https://apnews.com/article/trump-gold-coin-250th-anniversary-8be387e70ae561c62e27552bf47fb430
2026-03-25 Speaker Mike Johnson announced the White House made up a special award to present to Trump called the “America First” prize.
https://www.nj.com/politics/2026/03/trump-receives-another-award-that-was-just-invented.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/26/trump-mike-johnson-america-first-award
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3826ZVTKmE&list=WL&index=2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5PVnCR5GOE&list=WL&index=3
2026-03-26 The Treasury announced it would be putting Trump’s signature on the dollar bill.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/26/politics/trump-signature-paper-currency-treasury
https://fortune.com/2026/03/27/trump-name-on-dollar-not-treasury-secretary/
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0425
2026-03-31 Trump shared images of a towering 50-story glass skyscraper he wants for his presidential library. It has a golden escalator and the lobby will feature the Saudi jet he was gifted, a theater featuring a gold statue of himself, his “walk of fame”, and other things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHtNpXBOj6k&list=WL&index=4
https://newrepublic.com/post/208455/donald-trump-presidential-library-make-money-hotel
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/trump-library-money-power-jet/686643/
2026 April
2026-04-01 During the White House Easter luncheon, Trump’s spiritual adviser Paula White likened Trump to Jesus.
https://baptistnews.com/article/at-white-house-trump-lauded-as-suffering-king-like-jesus/
https://www.salon.com/2026/04/05/paula-white-likens-trumps-troubles-to-jesus-christ-at-easter-lunch/
https://www.ms.now/opinion/paula-white-sparks-maga-backlash-after-comparing-trump-to-jesus
https://premierchristian.news/us/news/article/trump-compared-to-jesus-at-white-house-prayers
https://x.com/metzgov/status/2039462014968316313
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkTSObD6VxU&list=WL&index=1&t=267s