Wikipedia has a great explanation of what the “Cult of Personality” is. I think there is very little doubt that is what we are experiencing now. I can’t think of any other president that people have ever “worshipped” like they do with Dr. ISM.
The president has always been a person that some liked and some criticized, and we have always acknowledged their faults. We have always viewed them with some skeptism, knowing that they can be voted out and the next guy will come in and we can find new things to criticize. Some even hand us material!
But for the first time, we have someone in the office that seems to cause some to drink kool-aid – SNL does a very 
tame parody of Dr ISM and CNN fact checks it?!? Did they ever fact check the parodies of Bush? or Clinton for that matter? All of a sudden the ability to criticize the president is taboo? Now school kids are singing songs about Dr ISM? I don’t recall anyone teaching kids songs about George Bush, or Ronald Reagan or Clinton. I do know if that had happened the outrage would have been heard around the world. I also don’t recall any television commentators getting a “chill up their leg” when Clinton made a speech.
What follows is an excerpt from the Wikipedia definition. Does it sound like what we are seeing here?
A cult of personality arises when a country’s leader uses mass media to create an idealized and heroic public image, often through unquestioning flattery and praise.[1] Cults of personality are often found in dictatorships and Stalinist governments.
A cult of personality is similar to general hero worship, except that it is created specifically for political leaders. However, the term may be applied by analogy to refer to adulation of religious or non-political leaders.
Generally, personality cults are most common in regimes with totalitarian systems of government, that seek to radically alter or transform society according to (supposedly) revolutionary new ideas. Often, a single leader becomes associated with this revolutionary transformation, and comes to be treated as a benevolent “guide” for the nation, without whom the transformation to a better future cannot occur. This has been generally the justification for personality cults that arose in totalitarian societies of the 20th century, such as those of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin.
I’ll let you draw your own conclusions.
