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Attorney General Pam Bondi recently congratulated President Donald Trump in a cabinet meeting, saying that he has personally saved 258 million lives.
Bondi said millions of fentanyl-laced pills that teenagers would have bought thinking they were "a Tylenol or an Adderall" (there, apparently, being a demand for black-market acetaminophen) have been seized in the president's first 100 days. 76% of the United States would have died in that time if it weren't for Trump, Bondi pointed out. She did later walk that back a bit, tweeting that he's actually only saved 119 million lives through the seizure of more than 22 million fentanyl-laced pills. Each pill, by her math, would have killed 5.4 people, and only a third of the U.S. population.
Iranian journalist Amir Taheri has written that "official flatterers describe (supreme leader Ali Khamenei) as a 'Divine Gift to Mankind' or as the 'Shining Sun of the Imamate,'" and says that Khamenei is more often quoted in official discourse than either the Koran or the Prophet Muhammad.
"You've probably assembled the greatest cabinet ever," Interior Secretary Doug Burgum told Donald Trump on camera. George Washington's choices of Thomas Jefferson as Secretary of State and Alexander Hamilton as Treasury Secretary pale in comparison.
From the "Hymn to Stalin," by the Russian writer Aleksandr Avdeyenko:
"Thank you, Stalin. Thank you because I am joyful. Thank you because I am well. No matter how old I become, I shall never forget how we received Stalin two days ago. Centuries will pass, and the generations still to come will regard us as the happiest of mortals, as the most fortunate of men, because we lived in the century of centuries, because we were privileged to see Stalin, our inspired leader. Yes, and we regard ourselves as the happiest of mortals because we are the contemporaries of a man who never had an equal in world history."
"What we have to recognize as a country is we've never had a genius, in terms of an entrepreneur, in office before like this," said GOP Rep. Burgess Owens of Trump in April during the tariff discussions.
Saparmurat Niyazov, the former authoritarian leader of Turkmenistan, incorporated elements of the book he wrote, "Ruhnama" ("Book of the Soul"), in driving tests and claimed that anyone who read the book three times would automatically go to heaven.
"Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart," Trump tweeted in 2018. "I went from VERY successful businessman, to top television star … to President of the United States (on my first try). I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius … and a very stable genius at that!"
In 1970, Chinese politician Lin Biao sought to have China's constitution changed to add a description of Mao Zedong as a "genius." Mao did not support the change.
"I have the world's greatest memory," Trump told reporter Katy Tur in 2016. "It's one thing everyone agrees on."
"I'd like to be pope," Trump said jokingly when asked who he wanted to be the next pope. "That would be my number one choice."