Hopefully, more like Calvin Coolidge ( but not the silent type ).
Trump is an insurgent outsider. He is our first populist President.
His Inauguration address was a scathing rebuke of the Uniparty establishment.
He sees himself as the tribune of the Little Guy from Main Street USA.
Donald Trump combines the spirit of Ronald Reagan, the celebrity appeal of JFK, the philosophy of Teddy Roosevelt and the political cunning of FDR
It would appear that Walter Russell Mead has attempted to answer that question.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2017-01-20/jacksonian-revolt
Well obviously between the two choices it would be Jackson. FDR was a socialist. However, I feel that Trump is a mixture of a few previous presidents and founding fathers of this nation.
Neither. He is today’s Harry Truman.
I looked at Jackson's speeches and did not see the similarities.
Trump is himself. He’s not any of the previous Presidents and then again neither was 0. Let him be himself. We here at FR for the most part have been happy with how he ran his run to the White House. Winning is great btw. Not at any cost but so far it’s been a fun and wild ride.
Watching a morph video i was struck by how many presidents served only one full term or less. It seems like in the early days it was meant to be a one time deal
Jackson, hands down. I’ve been saying that thru the entire election cycle. Nothing has happened to change that opinion.
Yet Trump is at heart a highly disciplined businessman and strategist. Once the country's revival is in hand and there are accomplishments to tout, Trump will become more selective in his choice of controversies and more restrained in manner in order to avoid obscuring those narratives. The result will be that Trump will become more like Roosevelt -- Teddy Roosevelt -- as he cruises toward reelection, posing as a successful reformer and less as an insurgent.
Nope, he is Trump. He has already and will continue to break the mold!
FDR was the WORST President in the history of this country. How dare you compare a new President to that wretched man!!
Forgotten Man--The Warner-Vigaphone Orchestra (1933)
I get the feeling he is more like Theodore Roosevelt. Carry a big stick.
He shares Jackson fire and disregard for what folks think except in Jackson case he would and did kill people who insulted his wife
Jackson defied a well sabered Redcoat officer at aged 14 I think
He was damn tuff
Trump has appointed better folks than I’ve ever seen frankly
Period
Casey was strong at CIA but this is different
He's a lot like Trump. He's his own man with his own ideas and his own way of doing things. Comparisons with past presidents is pretty meaningless.
Only time will tell.
I prefer to think that eventually the comparison
will be,” Is X more like Reagan or Trump?”
Hopefully it will be a long while before we have to say,
“Is X more like Clinton or Obama?”.
Crap! I got all excited until I realized the author wasn’t referring to Roosevelt Grier and Samuel L. Jackson....