President Donald Trump once again made a statement that put him in hot water. When he took full credit for the recognition of Juneteenth, claiming he made it very famous, he received a lot of criticisms, pinpointing his being narcissistic.
Donald Trump made a lot of claims in his interview with the Wall Street Journal and his recent Tulsa re-election rally. In the assembly, he claimed that nobody heard of Juneteenth before he scheduled the demonstration.
In the gathering itself, Melania Trump's husband did not mind the health officials' warnings that doing it in an enclosed venue would put the health of his supporters in danger as the COVID-19 pandemic is still looming around. From the looks of it, he was willing to take the risk as he said it was only a tiny percentage of attendees who would likely get sick.
He also claimed that people who wear face masks only do so to show their hatred of him. According to the Los Angeles Times, scientists say masks help to curb the spread of COVID-19 as it substantially reduces the risk of transmission.
Also, when the Supreme Court reaffirmed the civil rights of the LGBTQ people, he once again made it about him. He asked his 82.2 million Twitter followers if they got the impression that the SC made its decision because it did not like him.
Allen Frances, the former chairman of the department of psychiatry at Duke University's School of Medicine, revealed that Donald Trump might be the "most narcissistic human being" since Nero. He said the way he handles the pandemic and climate change could be likened to how Nero fiddled while Rome burned.
He never cared what would happen to anyone but himself. It also seemed like that he was willing to see the whole country burned down in flames if he felt himself stumbling.
Anyhow, Frances did not think that Donald Trump is sick. He then described him as an "evil genius," adding there was a method to his madness directing it toward "self-aggrandizement."
Meanwhile, he also managed to anger a lot of African Americans by taking credit for the recognition of Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, and Liberation Day, Celebrity Insider noted. Juneteenth commemorates the events that happened in 1865 when the Union Army General Gordon Granger went to Galveston, Texas, to announce that President Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves in other states through the Emancipation Proclamation.
Donald Trump claimed that he did something good by making it "very famous," describing it as an important event and time that nobody had ever heard of. One commenter said his narcissism was on another level, while another added that he was taking credit for everything.
