Donald J. Trump is the embodiment of the phrase “methinks thou doth protest too much.” Everything that he says is defensive and projecting. But the most defining factor of his life, aside from wanting all the money everywhere, is the fact that he can’t stand it if someone doesn’t adore him.

And I mean bordering on worship.

That sounds like pretty extreme rhetoric, but consider everything you see him talking about. Nothing good ever happens — or happened — in this country without him. He’s the richest, smartest, strongest man with the best genes of all time. He even said he was better looking than Kamala.

He refers to himself as “Your favorite president.”

He tells countless stories in which he pretends that people call him “sir” all the time, even if they’re people who won’t lose their jobs if they don’t.

The latest example of this behavior came, of course, at a rally. And this time, he said the quiet part out loud. “I don’t like when people call me stupid,” Trump said in Ohio. “I had great heritage, an uncle who was a great, great genius and a father who was a genius. Everybody…We have a lot of geniuses.”

Now, I’m not going to rule out the possibility that there have been smart people in his family. That honestly could be. But you don’t get smart by osmosis. And anyone who has to tell a crowd into a microphone that they don’t like being called stupid is stupid.

Trump then recounted for the crowd a conversation “he once had” (as in, this conversation never happened, but it sounds good at a rally), in which he asked someone “Is there a test or something I can take to prove to these radical left maniacs that I’m much smarter than them?”

I’ll tell you what, Donnie. There is. You could sit down with no preparation and no idea what any questions were going to be, and with a camera pointed at you, take a quiz about literally anything in the world alongside, say, a high-schooler. See who gets the higher score.

Donald Trump would never do that, reader. And there’s not a single person reading this right now that doesn’t know why: He would be humiliated.

In fact, I think there’s probably only one president we’ve ever had who possibly had a lower IQ than Trump, and we STILL kind of missed that guy by February of 2017.

Tweeters took the embattled ex-president to school.

“When you have to tell people repeatedly you and your family are smart, you aren’t very smart.”

“Guess it embarrasses him so many notice and call it what it is.”

“[It must have] skipped a generation.”

Do we need more examples? Because it’s not just that he’s demonstrably unintelligent. It’s that he doesn’t think anything through. He told Dr. Phil recently that the most important thing about the election coming up would be the integrity of the count.

Trump honestly said that if Jesus Christ Himself descended from Heaven and counted the votes, that he would win California.

“If Jesus Christ came down and was the vote counter, I would win California, OK? In other words, if we had an honest vote counter, a really honest vote counter — I do great with Hispanics, great, I mean at a level no Republican has ever done. But if we had an honest vote counter, I would win California.”

That’s an idiotic statement in so many ways: You’re never going to win California, ever, and if you think that, you’re dumb; If you know that’s a ridiculous statement, then you think other people might believe it, and you’re dumb; Are you sure you want to invite a brown-skinned non-citizen from across the biggest border in the universe to count the votes?

The Jesus from the Bible that I read would have thrown Trump out of the temple for being a moneychanger.

Anyway, don’t call him stupid, or he’ll be very upset with you.