Trump says Genghis Khan comparison 'sounds good' in 'unhinged' overnight post spree

In the early hours of Thursday morning, President Donald Trump shared a passage of text comparing him to the likes of Stalin and Genghis Khan, declaring that the comparison between him and history’s most horrible leaders “sounds good.”

The passage Trump shared was from presidential historian David King, who is a public policy lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. In it, King asserts that “powerful people” have historically been characterized by “brutal conquest” and the “fear they instilled.” “Common names that would come to mind,” wrote King, “are Alexander the Great, the Caesars, Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun, Tamburlaine, Napoleon and, more recently, Hitler, Mao, and Stalin.”

“The overwhelming difference between each of the above when compared with President Trump,” King elaborated, “is their lack of global reach. Their power was limited to restricted local areas (even though some of these areas were quite large in a local context). They had nowhere near the control over modern logistics, manpower, technology and the global economic muscle that President Trump can enforce.”

King went on to explain that while leaders like Genghis Khan, Tamburlaine, Attila the Hun, Mao, Lenin and others used “fear and authoritarianism” to control limited regions, Trump’s power is magnified by the fact that the U.S. is the first country to ever have “meaningful global reach.” King asserts that Trump, on the other hand, “is the first leader to be willing to use that power on a global scale. That makes him by far the most powerful person that has EVER walked this planet.”

Trump’s response to being compared to history’s most horrific mass murderers was unsurprising to anyone who has been paying attention for the past ten years, as he declared, “Sounds good to me!”

The president shared this along with a flurry of after-midnight posts, which included endorsements in various U.S. elections, an endorsement for a Colombian far-right presidential candidate known as “El Tigre,” a push for Trump's voter ID law, a promotion for a pro-Trump book by the fighter Tyrus, a rant about microchips and a list of dubious assertions of “what would have happened” if Kamala Harris had won the presidency. These included points like expensive gas prices, the arrest of protesters, masks and lockdowns, the elimination of prayers from “public squares,” “mandatory hijab day” and the claim that X would have been shut down and Elon Musk tried for Russian election tampering.

Trump then took three hours off from social media, before at 3 AM launching into more endorsements, a rant about his much-desired ballroom, pictures of four Washington DC statues he has being slathered with gold, screenshots of an article about the ballroom, two posts with they same photo of Trump at the G7 summit with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (then a third post showing the two men on the cover of an Indian magazine) and more.

He then took another break from social media, but, as of this writing, is busy churning out posts about the Pope and California Governor Gavin Newsom.