THE GREATEST HYPERBOLE OF ALL TIME IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD

Politicians generally try to manage expectations by not making overly grandiose statements that may come back to haunt them. Trump, on the other hand, routinely declares things to be the greatest or worst of all time. Barack Obama is the “the worst president in the history of the United States.” NAFTA is the “single worst trade deal ever approved.” And, most famously, “nobody has more respect for women than I do.”