But he's said and done SOOOO much horrible sh**t, why focus any attention at all on something so clearly NOT true at just a glance?
Well, everything else doesn't bother his followers, so I'm grasping at straws?
But he does sort of allude to having higher ratings, so while it's not directly saying that outright, it is hinting at it.
No, he said "since". He wasn't hinting at anything. Yeah, it's a low class move to bring up 9/11 when you're bragging about something, but he didn't say his ratings were higher and he didn't hint at it either. The Independent UK read that into it and you ran with it. It's not like he said he was "more popular than Jesus right now" or something.