Heā€™s also compared himself to the Mona Lisa for his ability to draw large, fawning crowds.

President Joe Biden on Saturday said the 2024 presidential race was ā€œthe weirdest campaign Iā€™ve ever been engaged inā€ because of his rival Donald Trumpā€™s behavior, which he said was ā€œeven worseā€ than in 2020.

The former president, meanwhile, fished for compliments on Truth Social by comparing himself to Elvis.

ā€œFor so many years people have been saying that Elvis and I look alike,ā€ Trump wrote, adding a photo that included his face spliced with the late rockerā€™s. ā€œWhat do you think?ā€

Trump is no stranger to humbly likening himself to cultural icons; heā€™s also compared himself to George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Nelson Mandela as far as his political career is concerned. Aesthetically, heā€™s also compared himself to the priceless Mona Lisa painting because it inspires such devotion.

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      Ah yes the man elected because people wanted to ā€œhave a beer with him.ā€

      He felt like a common man because he was the failson; a lay-about black-sheep of a political dynasty spanning 4 generations.

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        And then there was Reagan, who signed off on a bunch of Iran-Contra things and then had Alzheimerā€™s and other kind of dementia melt his brain like the Mission: Impossible self-destructing tape or something

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        He lost the vote, and, remarkably for POTUSes who lost the vote but won the election, he also lost the election and only won due to a lack of competent counting.

        It had nothing to do with beer and everything to do with our systemā€™s bad design.

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          We have to resize the court, before itā€™s too late.

          Them handing the election to W despite his L was the sign it needed to happen, and a mere 20 years later theyā€™re stripping womenā€™s right to bodily autonomy.