OCU cleric wonders "how an idiot like Trump became U.S. president"

Dumenko and Hryshchuk (right). Photo: OCU

Roman Hryshchuk, an OCU “priest” who previously received a Gold Award Cross from Serhiy Dumenko, published a Facebook post claiming that “there is no longer any doubt that Trump is an idiot.”

According to Hryshchuk, one could “endlessly discuss” Trump’s alleged “daily displays of idiocy,” “economic illiteracy,” “limited vocabulary,” “narcissism,” “mental disorders,” “poor memory,” and what he described as signs of dementia. Referring to the acronym TACO (“Trump Always Chickens Out”), he wrote: “Now everyone is asking the question: how did this idiot become president of the United States?”

Hryshchuk argued that the answer could be found in the writings of the 16th-century Italian political thinker Niccolò Machiavelli, whom he claimed taught that “society is to blame when idiots come to power.”

Hryshchuk argued that the answer could be found in the writings of the 16th-century Italian political thinker Niccolò Machiavelli, whom he claimed taught that “society is to blame when idiots come to power.”

The OCU cleric described Trump as an incompetent leader who surrounds himself with people of mediocre intellectual abilities, though he did not specify whom he meant.

“This is not slander against Trump – it is a reality that has repeated itself many times in history. And when crises arise, such Trumpist-Putinist systems cannot withstand them,” Hryshchuk wrote, lamenting that American society “keeps choosing exactly such people.”

“It is not Trump who is to blame for the fact that an idiot is at the top of power in the United States,” he concluded.

Earlier, the UOJ reported that Dumenko awarded Hryshchuk, a cleric known for conducting fake parish “transfers” and participating in church seizure campaigns against UOC communities.

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