Trump and TR: Presidential Parallels

The corporate media has made a fundamental mistake in dealing with President Donald J Trump. Day after day Trump is attacked with made-up conspiracies and personal innuendo and when the president defends himself, they say he doesn't look "presidential." But the American people know he is defending their interests. President Trump is not the problem, Trump is the solution.

At his campaign rallies, President Trump has remarked that many compare his election in 2016 to that of Andrew Jackson in 1828.

President Trump prominently displays a painting of Andrew Jackson in the Oval office. Jackson, America’s seventh president, was a no-nonsense populist, one ranked high in leadership ability by U.S. historians. The selection of the Ralph E. W. Earl portrait by the president suggests the direction Trump wants to lead the country in and the chief executive he deems worthy of emulation.

Andrew Jackson, like Trump, was an outsider who advocated a populist agenda championing the common man over corrupt government institutions and private financiers and stock jobbers whose financial interests and profits took priority over any allegiance to country.

But a far more compelling historic parallel exists with another outspoken New Yorker and similarly ostracized Republican -- Theodore Roosevelt.

Roosevelt hailed from Manhattan while Trump was born in Queens. Like Trump, Roosevelt was utterly despised by a GOP Republican establishment that did everything to render him impotent. Roosevelt would be denied the Republican presidential nomination by party insiders in 1912.

Because of his forthright opinions, the GOP regulars relegated Roosevelt to dead-end positions first as U.S. Civil Service Commissioner 1889, then as Assistant Secretary of the Navy 1897. Undaunted, Roosevelt turned all those positions into springboards for further advancement.

If this article was in print it would be worthy of lining the bird cage. The author is anxiously searching from similarities between PTR and PDJT. The similarities that truly exists are that of the deep state of yesteryear and today. Trump has never been relegated to dead-end positions in government like Roosevelt. He is a businessman first and has been all of his life, unlike Roosevelt. That dominates his personality and it is what makes him effective as chief executive. Trump's willingness to always fight back when attacked comes from a completely different place Roosevelt's somewhat aggressive style. Read about Roosevelt. You'll find that he had to force himself to be that way. It came from the standpoint of constantly trying to resurrect himself and a sense of insecurity. It's natural for Trump and he's been that way all his life.

I am not criticizing Roosevelt. What should be written is a criticism of the deep state and political parties, in this case the GOP.

I recently watched an old episode from the Virginian TV show, where Trampas, who was played by Doug McClure joined Roosevelt Rough Riders.

That was a fun episode. I think Steve joined up, and Trampas was sent to bring him back to the ranch (I could have those two backwards). Instead, Trampas also joined, and the Virginian went himself to bring them back, only to end up joining himself.

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