Is Trump omniscient?

"In my great and unmatched wisdom". That phrase has been worrying me all day. These words appeared in one of Donald Trump's many tweets yesterday when he was seemingly changing his mind about allowing the Turkish army to invade northern Syria and kill off all the wonderful Kurdish US allies who helped defeat Isis. The president of the United States of America believes he and he alone has unrivalled wisdom. That's worrying for a start. But much more alarming is that the president of the United States of America, a country I loved living and working in for three years, felt it was perfectly all right to announce to the world that he was blessed with unmatched wisdom. That's bizarre, creepy, kind of I-am-a-deity-sort-of-person, matching the language of Kim Jong-un or his late father and grandfather or Mao Tse Tung. Is Trump a deity, like the king of Thailand? Well, I really don't think so. Omniscience is supposed to belong to whichever God you might believe in. But Trump is so convinced of his total wisdom that he wants everyone to know it. I'm perfectly prepared to consider some people on this Earth are born with a special kind of wisdom. Sometimes it's a child or a philosopher or a man or woman of the church. But I'm afraid, Mr President, I cannot in all fairness put you in that category of specialness. Moreover, making such a claim in a tweet read by millions of people invites, not admiration, but ridicule and laughter. How can you treat seriously someone who believes he is so wise that any decision he makes has to be right. Where is the wisdom in the present Syria debacle? First he announces that US troops are to be withdrawn from northern Syria to allow the Turkish army to come in and set up a secure area. In other words snatch a piece of Syrian territory to make Turkey bigger and less full of Kurds. Then, after an uproar from pretty well every adviser who pointed out this decision was madness and a betrayal of the Kurds of the Syrian Democratic Forces who fought so valiantly aainst Isis, Trump tweeted a whole lot of nonsense about how he would obliterate the Turkish economy with sanctions if the Turkish troops over-exploited the withdrawal of US soldiers. What sort of wisdom is that? Now no one knows, least of all the poor Kurds and the Turkish army lining up on the Syrian border, what the hell is going to happen next. Is that a wise position to be in if you are the president of the United States of America, allegedy the most powerful man on Earth? As every lawyer likes to say by way of summing up a legal argument, "I rest my case".