Donald Trump thinks he looks like Elvis Presley – and shared a photo of his face against that of the King of Rock as proof.
The comparison came in a duo of posts on the ex-president’s Instagram and Truth Social accounts, where he asked more than 30 million followers what they thought of his assessment.
An accompanying photo showed the faces of the two influential figures merged into one, 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 and even a comment from fellow candidate Joe Biden – who simply called his second confrontation with the Republican front-runner “weird.”
Although bizarre, the statement wasn’t the first time the not-so-humble mogul compared his appearance to someone else’s — with his other self-proclaimed twin (who else?) being the Mona Lisa.
Donald Trump thinks he looks like Elvis Presley – and shared a photo of his face split against the King of Rock’s Saturday as proof. The somewhat disturbing result can be seen here
The comparison came in a duo of posts on the ex-president’s Instagram and Truth Social accounts, where he asked more than 30 million followers what they thought of his assessment.
This time, the 77-year-old told supporters: ‘For so many years people have said that Elvis and I look alike.
“What do you think?” he asked further, putting his statement in the form of a question.
As he fished for compliments, the photo of his face, photogenically fused with the rocker’s, prompted a stream of sarcastic, slanted comments from onlookers.
“This is the kind of nonsense I want to see from my president,” one commentator wrote, as Trump remains an outspoken frontrunner in the Republican Party despite the criminal cases against him.
“Elvis would vote for Trump,” another added, amid a clear air of irony radiating 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 the more than 20,000 comments on Instagram
“Like Trump is going to be president again,” wrote another — while another joker posted two eerily similar, side-by-side gifs of Trump and Bigfoot, the large, hairy humanoid mythical creature also known as Sasquatch.
The discourse continued on other platforms such as Truth Social, but also on a still Trump-less X – formerly known as Twitter.
As he fished for compliments, the photo of his face, photogenically fused with the rocker’s, prompted a stream of sarcastic, slanted comments from onlookers. “Like Trump is going to be president again,” one wrote – while another posted two side-by-side gifs of Trump and Bigfoot
However, comments on the latter were far less kind, with many choosing to mock the former Commander-in-Chief for the self-serving comparison.
A report titled Republicans vs. Trump, which has more than half a million followers, seemed to suggest that the famously light-hearted politician suffered from narcissistic personality disorder.
“Narcissistic personality disorder is a mental illness in which people have an unreasonably high sense of their own importance,” the post read, giving the Mayo Clinic’s definition of the condition rather than attributing it outright to Trump.
‘They need too much attention and demand 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 comment continued.
“But behind this mask of extreme self-confidence, they are unsure of their self-worth and are easily upset by the slightest criticism.”
Other criticisms were made more openly, with some taking the opportunity to question Trump’s state of mind.
Other criticisms were made more openly, with some taking the opportunity to question Trump’s state of mind.
“Donald Trump clearly has dementia,” wrote Democratic strategist Johnny Palmadessa, listing a series of blunders Trump has made during his campaign.
“He has forgotten again and again that Barack Obama is not still the president. He thinks Nikki Haley was Speaker of the House of Representatives instead of Nancy Pelosi.”
“He says he ‘won’ his fraud lawsuit in New York, but the trial is over,” Palmadess continued, despite the verdict in that case not being released.
He continued: “(Trump) just compared himself to Elvis because he believes they ‘look alike’ – (he) needs to get out of the race. He needs to get help.”
Ben Meiselas, the co-founder of the anti-Trump political action committee MediasTouch, similarly cited Trump’s recent behavior, including the Elvis post, as evidence of “how misguided, cognitively impaired and completely weird the Trump campaign is.”
Similar sentiments were expected to be expressed by a much more influential Biden on Saturday at an event in the president’s hometown. Wilmington, Delaware.
Many of the comments online were unkind, as several chose to mock the former Commander-in-Chief for the self-serving comparison
Trump has already compared himself to Leonardo Da Vici’s 16th century masterpiece The Mona Lisa, while his followers have compared him to Jesus
“It’s the strangest campaign I’ve ever been part of,” he told a reporter Saturday evening, without explicitly naming Trump.
“People are starting to focus and the man we’re competing against is him – he’s not for anything, he’s against everything.
“It is even worse behaviorally than the last time in 2020.”
A few years earlier, at an event in Presley’s hometown of Tupelo, Trump first brought up his resemblance 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, because I’m not,” he said to tepid laughter at the time.
“But other than the blonde hair, when I was growing up they said I looked like Elvis.”
Last year, the man whose followers compared him to Jesus Christ compared himself to Leonardo Da Vici’s 16th-century masterpiece The Mona Lisa.
“You have people who go to see the Mona Lisa – they love the Mona Lisa and they will see it hundreds and hundreds of times and it gets better every time,” he told a Welsh TV station at the time.
He further claimed that his followers do the same at his meetings, showing up repeatedly, in full force, often days in advance.
In response, fellow candidate Joe Biden told spectators at an event in Delaware how his ongoing confrontation with the GOP front-runner became ‘weird’
Politically, Trump has also compared himself to heroes such as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Nelson Mandela, with the comparison to the latter coming amid claims that he is being unfairly persecuted by the current administration.
Meanwhile, respondents on Trump’s Truth Social platform photoshopped him against unflattering figures like Hitler and an Oompa Loompa.
That said, a full 60 percent of respondents said the Republican Party should keep Trump on track even if he is convicted of a crime related to trying to overturn the 2020 election.
He has also benefited from a slimmed-down primary field following the surrender of friend and rival Ron DeSantis.
South Carolina’s Nikki Haley has since emerged as his biggest threat, but Trump remains well ahead in every primary.
