OPINION — Thomas Jefferson created his own Bible, deleting with a penknife those portions of the New Testament that troubled his deist views. In similar fashion, Donald Trump has apparently created his own Constitution by ripping out any clause that challenges his power or deflates his blimp-sized ego.

Monday, in the midst of the reality show that he called a Cabinet meeting, Trump denounced what he called “this phony emoluments clause.” In most versions of the Constitution, Article 1, Section 9 bans “any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”

But that line has clearly been ripped from the Trump Constitution. The president even creatively added to his Constitution passages like defining “treason” to cover any action or statement by Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff that challenges his power.

Of course, there is another possibility: The president has less knowledge of the Constitution than a mediocre student in a ninth-grade civics class. But that seems so unlikely that it is barely worthy of consideration.

In a typically bizarre 24-hour period, Trump’s claim about the phony emoluments clause was only topped by his Sunday tweet calling his new Defense secretary “Mark Esperanto” instead of Esper. Presumably, Trump prefers Esperanto to a language like Latin that has given us the phrase “quid pro quo.”