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Personality, Cult of BIBLIOGRAPHY Cult of personality is a pejorative term implying the concentration of all power in a single charismatic leader within a totalitarian state and the near deification of that leader in state propaganda. Totalitarian regimes use the state-controlled mass media to cultivate a larger-than-life public image of the leader through unquestioning flattery and praise. Leaders are lauded for their extraordinary courage, knowledge, wisdom, or any other superhuman quality necessary for legitimating the totalitarian regime. The cult of personality serves to sustain such a regime in power, discourage open criticism, and justify whatever political twists and turns it...

Trump will dominate the race just as Secretariat dominated the Belmont Stakes in 1973! Trump does not need America, AMERICA NEEDS TRUMP!

Real-estate mogul Donald Trump lashed out at Fox News host Megyn Kelly on Monday, calling her "average in every way" and asking who would want to "woo" her. Trump was apparently responding to an article in January's Vanity Fair, in which Kelly described the Republican presidential front-runner's frequent complaints about her. The Fox News host told the publication that in the past Trump "would send me press clippings about me that he would just sign 'Donald Trump.'" She continued: And he called from time to time to compliment a segment. I didn't know why he was doing that. And then...

Cabinet members will be traveling around the country in the coming days to help promote President Barack Obama's State of the Union proposals. The White House says the "road tour" is geared toward highlighting pressing issues facing the country such as climate change, health, criminal justice and access to opportunity. ...

This incessant clamoring by voters and punditry for better "leaders" and more "leadership" is one of the most unsavory, dangerous, and un-American tendencies in political discourse. When Donald Trump was asked last week by Joe Scarborough what he made of an endorsement from Vladimir Putin -- a thug who's probably murdered journalists and political opponents and more -- the GOP presidential front-runner responded, "He's running his country, and at least he's a leader, unlike what we have in this country." Then he offered an incredibly dumb moral equivalency about how the United States also does "plenty of killing." There was...

Talk radio host Mark Levin criticized Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for his remarks on ethanol, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, and ethanol, arguing Trump “really screwed up,” and particularly criticized Trump’s position on ethanol as “pandering” and asking, “why would anybody support that who runs as a Republican?” on Monday. Levin said, “I am not going to defend reckless comments, where a candidate or candidates defend the poison that is the Republican establishment, especially [Sen.] Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)48% in the United States Senate. I am not going to defend blowing out our federal budget subsidizing agribusiness and leftists...

Unlike many of the Republican Party's leaders and presidential candidates, Rep. Reid Ribble (R-Wis.) is willing to both bash Donald Trump and rule out supporting him if he becomes the party's nominee. "My first oath is to the Constitution of the United States. Donald Trump has taken positions contrary to that document, so I could not support him and uphold my oath," Ribble told "So That Happened," the HuffPost Politics podcast.

New posters featuring Hillary Clinton seem to be trying to make her "high flying, adored" with voters. The new images appeared at a campaign stop in San Antonio, Texas, where Clinton wooed Latino voters on Thursday. But according to NPR's Tamara Keith, the campaign says they don't know where the likeness came from. Banners were plastered all over the venue along with smaller signs and t-shirts. The image of the black-clad Clinton profile may seem familiar to those who love either Argentinean history or musical theater — specifically Andrew Lloyd Weber's "Evita." The 1978 musical told the story of Eva...

(snip)Exchange as follows: STEPHANIE RUHLE, host: In order to be the president of the United States, you have to be a leader. We have not seen your soft hand. We have seen your offense, but George Bush had to stand in front of America after 9/11, Barack Obama did after Sandy Hook. Help us understand who Donald Trump is as a man. I need to know that you will make us feel a safe and you will make us feel proud.TRUMP: I think I have a bigger heart than all of them. I think I’m much more competent than all...

I attended a Donald Trump rally yesterday, October 3, in Franklin Tennessee. I’ve never seen attendance like it. I arrived an hour early and the line snaked around the building then back on itself around the building again – and the people kept coming and coming. They were mostly average working people, I estimate about a third were under 30. All were heartened by the crowd itself. Everyone I spoke to expressed renewed hope for America in this candidate. Eventually, the organizers stopped letting people in and we were all stranded out in the rain. The couple behind me had...

Published on Sep 18, 2015 Performed By: TUSK Written By: Ronnie McDowell/James Ducker/Stacy Hogan Published By: Richland Station Produced By: Stacy Hogan

Let's take a break this morning, and depart from the negatory stuff from the past week on Donald Trump. I think you'll enjoy this short video with golf pro Hank Haney, who analyzes Trump's golf swing...I think you can predict the outcome. Trump has his own style. There is so much going on with this man, starting with just his life from birth to the present. So much for all of us to discover, ie if he becomes our next president. I would love to see Trump and Obama playing golf together, in fact, you know someday this will happen.

The cover, photographed by Bobby Doherty, renders Trump as a founding father — colonial hairdo and all.

U.S. Republican party presidential frontrunner Donald Trump said on Sunday high salaries paid to chief executives were a "joke" and a "disgrace" and said these were often approved by company boards stacked with the CEO's friends. Trump, a real estate mogul who has said he plans to use his net worth of $8.7 billion to fund his White House campaign, said in an interview with CBS's "Face the Nation" that it was hard to tackle the question of corporate pay because too many corporate boards lacked independence. "It's disgraceful. Sometimes the boards rule but I would probably say it's less...

FR Pictorial: Meet the Lovely Ladies of the Potential First FamilyIf Donald Trump wins the White House, expect a steady diet of First Eye Candy in the lovely female forms of Melania, Ivanka and the much lesser known Tiffany. Will having a "hot" first family become a major asset in The Donald's electability? Perhaps not, but it's hard to see how it could become a liability. Not only are they beautiful, but these lovely ladies' bios reveal there's much more than meets the eye. Melania The 45 year old former model was born in Slovenia  (Yugoslavia at the time) and...

I'm directing this to fellow Freepers out there that are at this point in time: 1. Totally against Trump 2. Considering Trump 3. Warming up to Trump 4. Willing to Stump for Trump This is about my evolution. When I heard Trump had announced, I was actually angry. I was basically for Cruz, and very much so, but wanting to hear from Walker. I figured that Trump was going to pull a Ross Perot on us, the most despised person in my mind. He ran against Bush, Sr for no other reason than out of spite for the man. He...

This article is in no way a promotion of Donald Trump’s presidential bid for the White House. Truth be told, I don’t even know much about his agenda. All I know is that he has somehow managed to grasp my attention as well as that of many others. Love him or hate him, we can’t ignore him! We can’t seem to browse our TV channels without catching him on air or peruse a newspaper without reading something about him; whether it’s because of some of his outlandish remarks and comments or his promise to make America great once again; Donald...

Labor Day in the United States marks the unofficial end of summer as well as the moment every four years when presidential campaigns get truly serious. As the leaves fall and the weather gets colder, the political stakes only increase for presidential hopefuls. Negative ads start to fill the airwaves in early states and candidates no longer have the luxury of a day off or the hope that an off-message comment might slip by unnoticed. But that doesn’t mean that the summer has been uneventful in the presidential campaign. These are the five important lessons we have learned about 2016...

Donald Trump is the Mohammed Ali of politics. He’s the ultimate showman, the media darling, the headline grabber of our time. He’s the worst enemy of political correctness and the best friend of a talk show’s ratings. Can’t you just see him in colorful boxing shorts, dancing around the ring, raising his arms in victory and taunting the crowd—“I am the greatest!” To prove it, let’s string together some of Ali’s actual ringside statements adjusted to “Trump Speak:” “I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be....

I've been trying to figure out why Rush is doing daily Trump clean up exercises (latest was his Friday deconstruction and then reframing of Trump's less than stellar performance on Hugh Hewitt's show), along with his breathless cheerleading; it's not the Rush Limbaugh Show anymore, it has become the The Donald Show. Then this morning I read that Megachurch Pastor Paula White has married her 3rd husband (she's his 4th) = 6 marriages. I'd looked her up because she's a good friend of Donald Trump (promotes his books and he promotes her) who is going to arrange a sit down...