Trump ranks himself the greatest US president ever. Historians beg to differ

Unfortunately Perry, as with Vaughn, took issue with Trump’s ranking. “In no universe of scholars, I believe, would Donald Trump be in the ‘great’ category, the ‘greatest’ category, ‘near great’ category,” she said. 

“My view as a scholar and a constitutional historian would be that his promotion of the insurrection of January 6, and his continuation of perpetuating this view that Joe Biden stole the election: that is undermining the American constitutional system, the rule of law,” added Perry. 

“Not to mention the racism and the bias against anybody who’s not a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant. So all those things will work against him, I believe, throughout history.”

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/03/greatest-president-trump-historians-disagree

 

'Despicable toady’ – and 2028 candidate in all but name

Joe Walsh, a former Republican congressman turned Democrat, said: "He's absolutely risen to the occasion: he's a thoroughly despicable, dishonest toady for Donald Trump, and he's doing it wonderfully. 

"He's the clear frontrunner because he's utterly shameless and he's done and said everything that Trump wants him to do and say. He's done a great job and positioned himself to be the guy."…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/18/jd-vance-profile-trump-presidency

Trump Doesn’t Want to Be President — His Cry for Help #PaulaPoundstone

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7CkyoIWbgWo

 

Steve Bannon tells Bill Maher that Trump WILL Serve a Third Term.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QO3hbm16n4E

 

The West Wing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbnZht12DYM

What’s to lose with a second Trump presidency? Here’s a list.

Benedict Arnold and Trump have some things in common…

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/4720207-whats-to-lose-with-a-second-trump-presidency-heres-a-list/

Supreme Court MAKES RULING in Trump Disqualification Case

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDGKgqXRcj4

Poll Ranks Biden as 14th-Best President, With Trump Last - The New York Times

Although he has claims to a historical legacy by managing the end of the Covid pandemic; rebuilding the nation's roads, bridges and other infrastructure; and leading an international coalition against Russian aggression, Mr. Biden's signature accomplishment, according to the historians, was evicting Mr. Trump from the Oval Office...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/18/us/politics/biden-trump-presidential-rankings.html

World leaders think Trump is ‘laughing fool,’ John Bolton says | The Hill

"Well, I think the hard men of history, like Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, understand what their job is for their respective country. I don't think Trump understands what the job of the presidency is for ours," he said. 

"And I will say, having been in the room with him, in meeting those people, having listened in, on his phone conversations, I don't think they are really friendly with Donald Trump," he continued...

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4439620-john-bolton-world-leaders-trump-laughing-fool/

Interview with historian Nicole Hemmer (Hemant Mehta and Jessica Bluemke, The Friendly Atheist podast)

Nicole Hemmer is a political historian specializing in media, conservatism, and the presidency. Her scholarship and teaching focus on the interplay of social movements, electoral politics, and political culture in order to probe the complexities of political identity and practice in the 20th century United States.

In this bonus episode, Jess and Dr. Hemmer discussed the rise of the Evangelical right, why Newt Gingrich was so effective at whipping the GOP into shape, and some fun J. Edgar Hoover counterfactuals.

Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-44ptp-1a38f3a8

Trump Demands Either New Election ‘Immediately’ or Make Him ‘Rightful’ President Now

Trump's latest rant came shortly after his pal Lindsey Graham warned of "riots in the streets" if the ex-president was indicted...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-demands-either-new-election-immediately-or-make-him-rightful-president-now

Alabama Senate candidate suggests Trump wants Republicans to reinstall him as president if they retake Congress this fall.

…So what it could mean instead is that Trump, assuming like many people that Republicans will retake both the House and Senate this November, is asking the candidates he endorses to commit to some sort of effort to remove Biden from office—but not an impeachment, because that would make Kamala Harris president—and somehow reinstall him as president on the pretext that he "won" in 2020…

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/03/alabama-senate-candidate-suggests-trump-wants-republicans-to-reinstall-him-as-president-if-they-retake-congress-this-fall.html

Donald Trump’s lawlessness is a preview of what a second presidency would hold - The Washington Post - Opinion

"I have the right to do whatever I want as president," Trump famously said. Should he become president again, he will believe it only more fiercely, no matter what the law says. Where that belief will take him we cannot yet predict...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/07/trump-lawlessness/

‘A roadmap for a coup’: inside Trump’s plot to steal the presidency

A startling memo, a surreal Oval Office encounter – just some of the twists in the unfolding story of Trump's bid to cling to power, which critics say was no less than an attempted coup…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/30/trump-2020-election-steal-presidency-coup-inside-story

Dallas: CPAC Delegates Handed 7-Point Plan to Reinstate Trump As Pres.

… The messaging alludes to popular QAnon-affiliated conspiracy theories that accuse the Democrat party of secret satanic abuse. A recent study found that around a quarter of Republicans believe that Satan-worshiping pedophiles control the US government…

https://www.businessinsider.com/cpac-plan-reinstate-donald-trump-president-2021-7

Pastor Todd Coconato Believes Trump Will Be President Again, Has God's Mantle of Anointing

... prayed, he said, about whether Trump would ever return to the Oval Office, and God reminded him "he's the one that chooses the leadership, not us." God, he said, allows "certain things to happen, but he also responds to the prayers of the righteous."...

https://www.newsweek.com/pastor-todd-coconato-believes-trump-will-president-again-has-gods-mantle-anointing-1585045

'Prophet' Robin Bullock Calls on Biden to Confess That He's 'Not the legitimate president’ - RWW News

Robin Bullock calls on Joe Biden to publicly confess to the American people that the election was fraudulent and that he's "not the legitimate president."
https://youtu.be/sV3XEuZ7Vh4

Fact check: False news report indicates Joe Biden plans to step down

... The claim is false, and there are no reports or evidence that Biden is stepping down as president-elect because of "unspecified health issues." ...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/01/05/false-claim-biden-plans-step-down-president-elect/4113914001/

Opinion | Trump saved the worst for last - The Washington Post

... He has purged the senior leadership of the Pentagon and installed conspiracy-mongering loyalists in their place. He has fired a senior cybersecurity official, Christopher Krebs, for attesting that the election was free of fraud. He unloaded on Attorney General William P. Barr for not doing more to politicize his department, leading to Barr's departure. He has pulled U.S. troops out of Somalia just as a new al-Shabab plot to attack the United States was uncovered...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/20/trump-saved-worst-last/

Donald Trump’s Legacy of Lies - The Atlantic

The effects of his reign will linger. But democracy survived.....

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/01/the-legacy-of-donald-trump/617255/