Which president does Trump compare to most?
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Overweight, one term, Republican President with a poorly attended inauguration and who can’t get along with the press. Has to be Taft.
Stop it right there. Mike Ditka is GOD. And if he were President, there would be no rioting.
Abraham Lincoln. Eerily similar.
"No matter what Lincoln did, it was never enough for one political faction, and too much for another. Yes, his sure-footed leadership during this country’s most-difficult days was accompanied by a fair amount of praise, but also by a steady stream of abuse—in editorials, speeches, journals, and private letters—from those on his own side ... His ancestry was routinely impugned, his lack of formal learning ridiculed, his appearance maligned, and his morality assailed ... rebuking him for his lack of refinement and calling him “an unshapely man.” Other Northern newspapers openly called for his assassination long before John Wilkes Booth pulled the trigger. He was called a coward, “an idiot,” and “the original gorilla” by none other than the commanding general of his armies, George McClellan."
www.theatlantic.com
"No matter what Lincoln did, it was never enough for one political faction, and too much for another. Yes, his sure-footed leadership during this country’s most-difficult days was accompanied by a fair amount of praise, but also by a steady stream of abuse—in editorials, speeches, journals, and private letters—from those on his own side ... His ancestry was routinely impugned, his lack of formal learning ridiculed, his appearance maligned, and his morality assailed ... rebuking him for his lack of refinement and calling him “an unshapely man.” Other Northern newspapers openly called for his assassination long before John Wilkes Booth pulled the trigger. He was called a coward, “an idiot,” and “the original gorilla” by none other than the commanding general of his armies, George McClellan."
‘Idiot,’ ‘Yahoo,’ ‘Original Gorilla’: How Lincoln Was Dissed in His Day
The difficulty of recognizing excellence in its own time
