What are some examples of world leaders claiming to be heads of other countries?

porcoesphino@mander.xyz to Political Discussion and Commentary@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days ago

A post by Trump on Truth Social of a doctored image of his Wikipedia page adding that he is the Acting President of Venezuela

Donald Trump recently made a Truth social post with a doctored Wikipedia page that added he was the Acting President of Venezuela.

What are some examples of past leaders making similar claims?

I assume empires did it a lot, and that it’s been done a lot as a pretext for war, but I’m pretty ignorant of historic examples.

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