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    Why Trump Keeps Returning to Reddit

    The president’s love of memes drawn from the message board shows his uncommon need for adulation and inability to assess the source of information he receives.
    by David A. Graham Jul 03, 2017 4 minutes
    Source: Carlo Allegri / Reuters

    Grizzled political observers can recall—it was just less than three years ago, though it feels like many more—when conservative media were branding Barack Obama a raging narcissist. Little could they, or anyone else, have imagined that in the near future the president of the United States would be the sort of person who recycled fan videos created on internet message boards devoted to idolizing him.

    On Sunday morning, President Trump offered this bizarre clip:

    The video is an alteration of an old clip of WWE wrestling; the man whose face is obscured by the CNN logo is Vince McMahon, the CEO of WWE and, not

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