Posted on 01/22/2017 6:59:50 AM PST by Kaslin
Ok. I can live with that. Everyone outside of Jesus certainly has their flaws.
It’s reported (I can’t find link) Trump not only returned the Churchill bust to the Oval Office, but also a Roosevelt bust.
Not FDR. Teddy.
Mr. Big Stick.
So there’s the answer to this post’s question. Ha!
That's really what Andrew Jackson was which is why the comparisons are being made with Trump.
Jackson's supporters were regarded as little more than a mob by those who had become comfortable thinking of themselves as an elite entitled to rule.
piteous attempt to squeeze something from nothing
Trump is Trump
He is unique
Jeffery failed
I have not heard or read any mention about a Roosevelt bust. There was a Churchill bust in the living quarters of that former pos occupant and the real Churchill bust is supposedly at the British embassy and they are going to send it back to the White House.
The Teddy Roosevelt bust was, I think, mentioned in one of the links on the FR-FB page yesterday while FR was down. Will post it if I find it again, can’t promise.
Past 2 days were tough! Info overload with system down!
And look who’s stepping on the Constitution in that picture...
I’m going to disagree, but only as far as the electoral politics are concerned.
Both were businessmen before they became politicians, though Truman ran a small haberdashery while Trump ran a yuge real estate business. Truman came in the WH through the back door of FDR's death, while Trump came in the front door of Obama's "retirement." But Truman was a centrist Democrat, which by today's standards means he was slightly left of Reagan, with one glaring exception: Truman supported single payer before single payer was cool--and Trump has hinted at this himself, cf. here. They also both despise/d corruption, along with seditious plants in the government (Communists with Truman, jihadists with Trump), and both had/have the predeliction to speak their minds openly and bluntly, using the media of their day: Truman surrounded by reporters during his outdoor walks, Trump via Twitter and FB.
It is unfortunately true that we live in a time when a full-fledged Burkean/Lockean conservative would never win, and the only reason Hillary! lost wasn't her stands on the issues, but her corruption and her lack of personability--without the rigging of the convention by the DNC, we could very well have had President Sanders spiraling us down the tubes to socialist ruin.
Maybe another difference between the two is that Truman (despite being a small-time businessman) was a politician in the Kansas City/Independence area for a long time. He was a part of the Pendergast Machine and in fact took a lot of flak when he attended ‘Boss’ Pendergast’s funeral as Vice President. But like Trump, he wasn’t even a little bit afraid of taking on the press. If they gave him crap, he gave them more right back.
Truman represents a different era. He and Bess took a cab from the W.H. and took a train back home to K.C., as opposed to taking a free trip on AF 1 to Palm Springs to start second January vacation. And he didn’t get rich from being President.
Truman was a shock to the political system mainly because he wasn’t FDR, who had been President seemingly forever. Trump’s election, I think, has shaken the political status quo to its foundations—in that he’s more like Jackson.
I'd have to look it up, but I remember reading that Truman spent the summer of 1953 driving around the country with his wife: no SS entourage, no bulletproof vehicles, no roads blocked for his travel, just Harry and Bess in a car. Yes, that was a very different time; since I wasn't going to be around for another year, I never knew it.
I was around, but I was just a little nipper. I like the idea of ex-Presidents becoming ordinary civilians again, but those times are likely to never return. Not all things have gotten better in the last 60 years.
FDR believe in government solutions and Keynesian economics. Trump believes in the private sector. Polar opposites.
Unlike the author you comparing President Trump only to FDR and not to Jackson. Why is that?
When I read the part about his comparison with FDR and his erroneous meme then I stopped reading. I figured the rest isn’t worth reading. I do not like the Globalist Review very much anyway.
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