Much like Donald this Roman emperor believed he was a god.

For four years, Caligula capriciously ruled Rome, drained the treasury, and mocked the Senate—until those sworn to protect him plotted his death. Also, according to Cassius Dio, Caligula threatened to make his horse, Incitatus, a consul and ordered the sun to rise during the night. The Romans soon began to hate him and he was finally assassinated. After Caligula's death, many of his statues were destroyed or defaced.

Caligula - Roman Emperor 37-41 AD.

LIKE TRUMP, CALIGULA...

0. Was in office for only four years.

1. Only slept three hours a night.

2. Made spontaneous pronouncements constantly.

3. Proclaimed his enormous wealth.

4. Told his mother that he could do anything and was above the law.

5. Lived in such luxury that the Roman Empire had to increase the budget to pay for his luxuries. Eventually he bankrupted the Roman Treasury.

6. His chariots, chairs and living areas had precious stones and gold inlaid within them.

7. Known for sexual excesses and corruption.

8. Spent a fortune on luxurious living areas. Built several extravagant buildings at great expense to Rome.

9. Granted bonuses to the military and favored military leaders in his government.

10. Killed or exiled those who were close advisers to him.

11. Abolished certain taxes.

12. Allowed the common people to vote, empowering many of the lower uneducated classes. These became his political base.

13. Had people executed without full trials. (see: Epstein)

14. In the year 39, Rome faced financial ruin. Caligula began to seize the property and estates of wealthy Romans to pay bills.

15. Levied taxes widely and auctioned off the lives of men in the coliseum.

16. Arrested, fined and seized assets of the men in charge of building the roads of Rome.

17. Was known for cruelty, murder and forced suicides of people he opposed.

18. Seized public carriages. Caused an agricultural crisis and recession when he seized grain boats and scrapped them for use to build a pontoon bridge.

19. Built a huge ship as a water palace with marble decks and luxury finishes. This ship was discovered years later and has been studied by historians since.

20. Ridiculed senators who he opposed, making them run along beside his chariot or humiliating them if they didn't do his will. He had many senators tried for treason or other legal reasons.

21. Became angry and mean when Rome ran out of money for his expenses, so he opened a brothel to make money to pay his bills.

22. The people of Rome became disillusioned when his laws and actions became so absurd and radical.

23. Eventually the people, business leaders and the senate of Rome learned to ignore Caligula.

24. He was a novice and inept at politics and could not get any major laws passed.

25. He became so obsessed with building new temples and construction projects that senators and other leaders of Rome believed he would financially destroy Rome. Caligula didn't seem to care if his projects "broke" the Roman Empire.

Much like Trump - Caligula entered the annals of history as one of the worst emperors of the Roman Empire. During his short but chaotic reign, he wreaked havoc among the Roman elite, demanding senators worship him as a god, brazenly taking their wives as concubines, and ordering the arbitrary executions of all those he mistrusted.

Caligula executed his teenage co-ruler, Tiberius Gemellus, for the audacious crime of drinking an antidote to protect himself from poison. Such was Caligula’s hatred for the Senate that he joked about making his horse a consul (Rome’s most senior office) rather than offer the role to one of them.

When Caligula came to power, the Romans hailed him as their golden prince. His father, Germanicus, had been a darling of the Roman military, winning a string of military victories against the marauding German tribes, and his mother, Agrippina the Elder, had been a model of Roman virtue. Both were brought down by the machinations of Tiberius: Germanicus was poisoned in Antioch, Syria, in 19 CE while Agrippina was later starved to death in prison on the Italian island of Pandateria.

Caligula spent his teenage years as the emperor Tiberius’ hostage on the island of Capri. Unable to mourn his parents or siblings, his only chance of survival was to sweeten up to the emperor — to participate in his perversions and act as if he posed no threat. One of the most famous sayings we have about Caligula refers to his talent for dissimulation: “Never was there a better servant or a worse master.”

EXAMPLE: TESTING POWER - EMPEROR CALIGULA (AD 12 - 41)

Roman Emperor Caligula was one of the earliest autocrats, known for his short temper and erratic behaviour.

"He ordered boats to be rounded up and put in a line across the Bay of Naples, so he could walk across them from one town to another," says Dr Benet Salway, a senior lecturer in history at University College London (UCL).

He also loved race horses, and was said to have lavished his favourite horse with a house, a troop of slaves, and wine in golden goblets.

Caligula's erratic behaviour, which also included ordering troops to gather sea shells during a campaign against Britain, led many to question his sanity.

However, Prof Peter Wiseman, a classicist from the University of Exeter, believes that Caligula "knew exactly what he was doing. He simply exploited to the full the possibilities for absolute power and self-indulgence".

Similarly, Dr Salway believes Caligula's young age - he was 24 when he assumed power - and lack of experience, may explain his actions.

"It's easy to see how someone given absolute power, without any preparation, could let it go to his head… it's a bit like if you made a teenager prime minister, without giving them any previous training.

He may have also been testing the limits of his power, he says. "Every time people pandered to his demands, it probably fuelled him, and made him believe that he was all powerful."

https://bootheglobalperspectives.com/article/1503867119WBG188242364/what-we-can-learn-from-history-caligula-emperor-of-the-roman-empire

GOD EMPEROR TRUMP: DEFENDING WESTERN CIVILIZATION AGAINST NEO-MARXISM AND MILITANT ISLAM

ROBERT M. PRICE

ABSTRACT. As we await the Second Coming of President Donald Trump, it is important to understand that his conservative Evangelical supporters view him not as a new Christ but as a new Constantine, a guardian of Western Civilization in a crucial period when we face threatened conquest by foreign enemies and infiltrators, Postmodern Neo-Marxism, and Militant Islam Thus he should be seen also as a new Charles Martel. He need not be a Bible-reading pietist to fulfill these roles, so Christians need not be ashamed of him if he isn’t.

KEY WORDS: Trump, Islam, religion, politics, Christianity

https://intapi.sciendo.com/pdf/10.2478/perc-2021-0017

https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/perc-2021-0017

At the death of Tiberius, Caligula became emperor of Rome. In the power struggle to become emperor, Caligula killed the nephews who stood in his path. This was common practice in the brutal world of Roman politics. Poison was often the favored method of assassination. Indeed, there was a whole industry of professional poisoners.

Caligula was a certified madman, the epitome of lunacy seated on a throne, although it was by no means the first time that a raving lunatic became the emperor. Among his many acts, Caligula appointed a horse to the Roman senate — although if one knew the Roman senate perhaps that was not so insane.

Rome was subjected to a reign of terror. Caligula had thousands killed. He reverted back to primitive Roman paganism. Even through the Romans were officially pagan, the leaders had become less zealous about it. They did not believe in a lot of the nonsense any longer. Nevertheless, Caligula not only believed in it but had himself elected as a god. Among the advantages in his mind was that no matter what he did he would not suffer the consequences in the Roman afterlife. He had statues of himself erected wherever he could, and people had to worship his image like that of the classic gods. He had dreams of becoming a permanent god on the order of Apollo, Zeus, etc.

He decreed that his statue be erected in the Temple in Jerusalem and that the Jews worship it. This is what had touched off the revolt of the Hasmoneans two centuries earlier. It was an act that guaranteed to ignite a rebellion in Judea against Rome.

https://www.jewishhistory.org/caligula/