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Lefil said:
MTZehvor said:

...quite literally every civilized country has leaders which do that, albeit in more subtle terms. President Obama credited his own administration for the rising stock market during the latest state of the union, President Bush credited his administration for the booming economy before the housing crisis, etc. It's not as blunt as "Thanks, me," but the sentiment is the same.

Regardless, the possibilities for US president have been terrifying for a long time now.

The difference is that Trump thanked himself in the third person. It is an objective fact that people who speak about themselves in the third person are characterized as narcissistic, self-obsessed and detached from reality. And what do you say abou fact that Trump pretended to be the fictional publicist named John Miller or John Barron and called up various reporters for years in order to brag about himself in the third person? Stop pretending he is not Insane.

Unless he talks about himself a lot in third person, I don't think it's really an indication of anything. If he does it only occassionally, it's probably just a rhetorical trick.