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                  Trump and Zeus

   Megalomaniac Baby killer Donald Trump   is not just a king. He is the ALMIGHTY GOD ZEUS  Himself ! Exaggeration? NO! Just compare  his braggadocio  with that of  Zeus as reported by  HOMER  :

" As dawn spread her saffron mantle over the world, ZEUS, who delights in thunder , called the gods to a conference on the highest of Olympus' many peaks. He opened it himself, and all attended carefully. "listen' he said , you gods and goddesses, while I tell you what I have resolved. I am determined , to bring this business to a speedy close, and with that end in view I give you my ruling, which no god or goddesses must defy - you must accept it, every one of you. If I find any god taking an  INDEPENDENT  course and going to the Trojan's or the Dannans' help, he shall be  thrashed ignominiously  and packed off to Olympus. Or I will  seize him and hurl him into the gloom of Tartarus, far, far away, where the deepest of all chasms yawn below the world, where the Iron Gates are , and the Brazen Thresshold, as far below Hades as the earth is under heaven. That will teach him how much I am the the most powerful of all the immortals. But perhaps you gods would like to put me to the test and satisfy yourselves? Suspend a  a golden rope from haven and lay hold of the end of it, all of you together. Try as  you may, you will never drag Zeus the High Counsellor  down from heaven to the ground. But if I  cared to take a hand and pulled in earnest from my end., I could haul you up, earth , sea and all. Then I should make the  rope fast to a pinnacle of Olympus, and leave everything to dangle in mid-air. By so much does my strength  exceed the strength of gods and men.

( Iliad - p.145)

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