Just hours before U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson reminded us that “Presidents are not kings,” outgoing Energy Secretary Rick Perry beat her to the punch on Fox News by declaring that although our president may not be a king, he probably is a messiah.
Perry said he told Trump: “Mr. President, I know there are people that say you said you were the chosen one, and I said, You were.”
A religiously illiterate younger generation may be forgiven if they confused the unambiguous messianic declarations of Perry with “the chosen one” of the Star Wars saga: Anakin Skywalker.