Alexander of Macedonia anticipated Trump 2,300 years ago when he slashed through that Gordian Knot! Thank you! Alexander the Great has now been added to the list! :)
This is an ongoing list of historical, popular, and Biblical people, as well as fictional characters and animals, that Donald Trump has been compared to on FR:
- Alexander the Great
- Batman
- Battlefield surgeon
- The Blues Brothers ("We're on a mission from God!")
- Asa Buchanan (One Life To Live)
- Churchill
- Bill Clinton
- Rooster Cogburn (True Grit)
- Cyrus the Great
- Eisenhower
- J.R. Ewing (Dallas)
- The Founding Fathers
- Gideon
- Rick Grimes (The Walking Dead)
- Max Herschel (Just Tell Me What You Want)
- Andrew Jackson
- Jesus
- John F. Kennedy
- Obi-Wan Kenobi (Star Wars)
- James T. Kirk (Star Trek)
- Leonidas I
- MacArthur
- Jim Malone (The Untouchables, portrayed by Sean Connery)
- Moses
- Nebuchadnezzar
- Saint Patrick
- Patton
- Reagan
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Teddy Roosevelt
- Babe Ruth
- Samson
- Secretariat
- Solomon
- Truman
- Darth Vader (Star Wars)
- Sir William Wallace (real life subject of Braveheart)
- Washington
Alexander should have been added long ago. This is not the first time I've made the comparison.
(BTW, note that I refer to him as Alexander of Macedonia.)