That goes beyond flattery. It’s rhetorical fluffing.
It’s hard to believe he isn’t joking. But he isn’t. I don’t know if Levin has been gargling lead infused water all his life or if this is sheer opportunism. But even Tucker Carlson doesn’t go this far. It’s frightening.
And, by the way, Trump hears this too. And he believes it as much as his followers do.