I finally realized what Trump’s quotes remind me of.
Many years ago, I used to be into the nerdy passtime of ‘who would win’ style arguments regarding fictional characters and groups. There were a lot of incredibly biased fanboys who would claim that their favorites would always win, regardless of any evidence they were shown that suggested otherwise. They would deliberately lie, repeat the same falsehoods no matter how many times they were corrected, take evidence out of context, outright falsify evidence, repeat the same lines over and over like a cult ritual, engage in ad hominem attacks, randomly type in ALL CAPS, and never, ever admit they were wrong about anything.
At the time, I believed people who acted like this were mostly young teenagers.
But this guy’s quotes read exactly like them.