Donald Trump thinks he looks like Elvis Presley – and shared a photo of his face spliced against the King of Rock’s as proof.
The comparison came in a duo of posts to the ex-president’s Instagram and Truth Social accounts, where he asked more than 30million followers how they felt about his assessment.
An accompanying photo showed the two influential figures’ faces melded to form a single visage, six years after Trump told a crowd in Mississippi that he had been favorably compared to the rock legend in the past.
The photoshop quickly caused an uproar online with people mocking Trump and saying that he looks absolutely nothing like Elvis. Others said the unusual claim betrayed a concerning level of narcissism.
While bizarre, the declaration was not the first time the not-so-modest mogul likened his look to someone else’s – with his other self-touted twin being (who else?) The Mona Lisa.
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Donald Trump thinks he looks like Elvis Presley – and shared a photo of his face spliced against the King of Rock’s Saturday as proof. The somewhat unsettling result is seen here
The comparison came in a duo of posts to the ex-president’s Instagram and Truth Social accounts, where he asked more than 30million followers how they felt about his assessment
The 77-year-old told supporters this time around, ‘For so many years people have been saying that Elvis and I look alike.
‘What do you think?’, he went on to ask, posing his declaration in the form of a question.
As he fished for compliments, the photo of his face photogenically fused with the rocker’s spurred a stream of sarcastic, slanted comments from those looking on.
‘This is the kind of sh*tposting I want to see from my president,’ one commenter wrote, as Trump, despite the criminal cases against him, remains a pronounced frontrunner within the Republican Party.
‘Elvis would vote Trump,’ added another, amid a distinct air of irony that radiated from both comment sections.
‘Have you ever seen trump and Elvis in the same place at the same time?’ someone else joked in one of more than 20,000 comments offered on Instagram
‘Like if Trump will be President again,’ wrote another – as another jokester posted two eerily similar, side-by-side gifs of Trump and Bigfoot, the large, hairy human-like mythical creature also commonly referred to as Sasquatch.
The discourse continued on other platforms like Truth Social, as well as a still Trump-less X – formerly known as Twitter.
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As he fished for compliments, the photo of his face photogenically fused with the rocker’s spurred a stream of sarcastic, slanted comments from those looking on. ‘Like if Trump will be President again,’ wrote one – as another posted two side-by-side gifs of Trump and Bigfoot
The comments on the latter, however, were much less kind, with many electing to mock the former commander-in-chief for the self-serving comparison.
An account called Republicans against Trump that has more than half a million followers seemed to suggest the famously flippant politico was suffering from Narcissistic personality disorder.
‘Narcissistic personality disorder is a mental health condition in which people have an unreasonably high sense of their own importance,’ the post read, offering the Mayo Clinic’s definition of the condition instead of outright attributing it to Trump.
‘They need and seek too much attention and want people to admire them.
‘People with this disorder may lack the ability to understand or care about the feelings of others,’ the not-so-veiled commentary continued.
‘But behind this mask of extreme confidence, they are not sure of their self-worth and are easily upset by the slightest criticism.’
Other criticisms were made more outright, with some using the opportunity to question Trump’s state of mind.
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Other criticisms were made more outright, with some using the opportunity to question Trump’s state of mind.
‘Donald Trump clearly has dementia,’ Democratic strategist Johnny Palmadessa wrote, listing a series of gaffes Trump has made on the campaign trail.
‘He has forgotten time and again that Barack Obama isn’t still the president. He thinks Nikki Haley was Speaker of the House instead of Nancy Pelosi.’
‘He says he’s “winning” his New York fraud trial, but the trial is over,’ Palmadess continued, despite the verdict in that case not being released.
He went on: ‘[Trump] just compared himself to Elvis because he believes they “look alike” – [he] needs to drop out of the race. He needs to seek help.’
Ben Meiselas, the cofounder of anti-Trump political action committee MediasTouch, similar cited Trump’s recent behavior including the Elvis post as proof of ‘how delusional, cognitively impaired, and utterly weird Trump’s campaign is.’
Similar sentiments would be aired by a much more influential Biden on Saturday, at an event held at the president’s hometown of Wilmington, Delaware.
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Many of the comments online were unkind, as several elected to mock the former commander-in-chief for the self-serving comparison
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Trump has already compared himself to Leonardo Da Vici’s 16th century masterpiece The Mona Lisa, while his followers have likened him to Jesus
“It’s the weirdest campaign I’ve ever been engaged in,” he told a reporter Saturday night, without explicitly naming Trump.
‘Folks are starting to focus in and the guy we’re running against, he is — he’s not for anything, he’s against everything.
‘[I]t’s even worse in terms of his behavior than the last time in 2020.’
A few years before that, at an event in Presley’s hometown Tupelo, Trump for the first time brought up his likeness to Presley, who died in 1977 at age 42 after years of abusing his body with drugs and alcohol.
‘I shouldn’t say this, you’ll say I’m very conceited, cause I’m not,’ he said at the time, to tepid laughter.
‘But other than the blonde hair, when I was growing up, they said I look like Elvis.’
Then, last year, the man whose followers have likened him to Jesus Christ compared himself to Leonardo Da Vici’s 16th century masterpiece The Mona Lisa.
‘You have people that go to the Mona Lisa – they love the Mona Lisa and they’ll see it hundreds and hundreds of times and it gets better each time,’ he told a Welsh TV station at the time.
He went on to claim that his followers do the same thing at his rallies, showing up repeatedly, in full force, often days in advance.
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In response, fellow candidate Joe Biden told onlookers at an event in Delaware how his ongoing faceoff with the GOP frontrunner was getting ‘weird’
Politically, Trump has also compared to himself to heroes like George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Nelson Mandela, with the comparison involving the latter coming amid claims he is being unfairly prosecuted by the current administration.
Meanwhile, responders on Trump’s platform Truth Social photoshopped him against non-flattering figures like Hitler and an Oompa Loompa.
That said, a full 60 percent of respondents said the Republican Party should keep Trump on the ticket even if he’s convicted of a crime related to trying to overturn the 2020 election.
He has also benefited from a slimmed-down primary field, after the surrender of friend-turned-rival Ron DeSantis.
South Carolina’s Nikki Haley has since surfaced as his biggest threat, but Trump, in every primary poll, remains well ahead.
