Trump has made the above comment numerous times over the past three years.
In a heated exchange about immigration during an interview with CBS show 60 Minutes aired Sunday, President Donald Trump hit back at host Lesley Stahl, stating: “I’m president and you’re not.”
“I’m a very instinctual person, but my instinct turns out to be right. Hey, look, in the meantime, I guess I can’t be doing so badly, because I’m President, and you’re not,” he told Time’s Washington bureau chief, Michael Scherer.
“The fake media is trying to silence us, but we will not let them,” he said. “The fake media tried to stop us from going to the White House. But I’m president, and they’re not,” he told attendees at the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
At a late rally in Indiana, Trump predicted that the press and others would say the enthusiasm at the rally would be “wanting.” But he shrugged it off by saying he knows better.
“See, you have to understand, I have a better education than they do, from a much better school,” he said as the crowd cheered.
“Elite, they’re the elite,” he said. “They’re the elite. I went to better schools, I went to better everything.”
“And by the way, by the way, you ready for this, and I’m president and they’re not,” he said to applause.
At yesterday’s coronavirus rally he said this , which isn’t exactly the same but it’s close:
Q: Do you feel like, or were you concerned that downplaying the virus that maybe got some people sick?”
A: And a lot of people love Trump. A lot of people love me, to see them all the time, I guess I’m here for a reason. To the best of my knowledge, I won.
He added that he thinks he’s going to win again in a landslide…
These comments are the ones that betray his emotional immaturity most clearly. It’s the retort of a spoiled child, not a world leader. (Well, maybe Kim Jong Un might say something like that…) The idea that he must be right because he got elected and has supporters is puerile, to say the least.
And even more than that, he is apparently too dumb or addled to know that the “… and you’re not” line is a patented Saturday Night Live joke from back in the day when was too uptight and unhip to understand it: