Donald Trump: Witch Hunts, Lynchings and Co-Opting Victimhood

The United States President has become the master of self-victimization and he leverages that to enrage his base.

Donald Trump has been bellowing on Twitter for three years proclaiming himself the victim of a witch hunt. As the controversial and combative leader has been heavily scrutinized for an unending series of lies that has, thus far, revealed everything from his adultery, paying hush money to adult film stars, over 40 allegations of sexual assault, soliciting help from hostile foreign nations to help him with the forthcoming election and breaching the constitutional emoluments clause, he has perfected the art of victimhood.

In a desperate bid to appeal to his loyalists by portraying legitimate questions as malicious attacks, he has manipulated truth into an malleable, negotiable array of projections, deflections and word-spinning to make the distinction between fact so intertwined in his own fiction that it is can e difficult to illustrate a clear portrait of his questionable actions, leaving most to rest their criticism solely on his even more questionable character.

He has often signaled his distress to his anxious fans, most of whom wait on call to leap to his defense. Look what they’re doing to me, your favorite president! Look how unfair they are! They hurting me, don’t let…