Whether it's Genius Businessman, Pawn Of The Russians, or Buffoon Of The Apocalypse, everyone has their preferred version of the president, a template or paper doll of the man that they use to hang new facts and information on like fun new outfits. This isn't a phenomenon unique to Trump; depending on who you talked to, George W. Bush was either a dopey man-child or the mastermind who faked 9/11 to send the country to war. Obama's opponents regularly set him up as a smooth, teleprompter-reading empty suit, Kenyan interloper, or a Muslim Manchurian Candidate.

Oh, and the Antichrist, that was a fun one too.

Anyways, while political supporters can be prone to this, it's mostly the work of opponents and pundits painting their hated enemy in the terms that will flatter them the least, even if it's completely contradictory to the last template they used. Here then, for your template admiring pleasure, are the weird narratives we keep trying to make President Trump fit into ...