Past Presidents Take On #45
Trump Tweets VS Presidential Quotes
It isn’t a secret that Trump isn’t nearly as well spoken as, well, every single other President we’ve ever had. So I thought it’d be fun to do a little “compare and contrast” — especially since Presidential words are forever recorded and attached to the history of our United States. People of tomorrow — those yet to be born — will one day look back on this era and draw conclusions about who we were.
This stuff needs to be contemplated, y’all. So, without further ado, here are statements that Trump has made, followed by statements that other Presidents have made. I hope you’ll join me in contemplation.
“Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.”
— Herbert Hoover
“Somebody will say, ‘Oh freedom of speech, freedom of speech.’ These are foolish people.” (Trump)
“If the freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led — like sheep to the slaughter.”
— George Washington
“The beauty of me is that I’m very rich.” (Trump)
“Piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.”
— Jimmy Carter
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
“And no official of my Administration… should interpret my words here tonight as an excuse to censor the news, to stifle dissent, to cover up our mistakes, or to withhold from the press, and the public, the facts they deserve to know.”
— John F. Kennedy
“Sorry losers and haters, but my IQ is one of the highest — and you all know it! Please don’t feel so stupid or insecure, it’s not your fault.” (Trump)
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“I’d like to punch him in the face.” (Trump)
“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
— Abraham Lincoln
“If tyranny and oppression come to this land it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”
— James Madison
“99% of failures come from people who make excuses.”
— George Washington
“The history of liberty is a history of resistance.”
— Woodrow Wilson
“The president of the United States is allowed to have whatever conflicts he wants … Jared’s a very smart guy…and I think he can be very helpful.” (Trump in reference to appointing his son-in-law)
“No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.”
— Rutherford B. Hayes
“Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation.”
— George Washington
“To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdoms no one will attempt to dispute.”
— James Buchanan
“The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.”
— George Washington
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light. “
— George Washington
“Above all, tell the truth.”
— Grover Cleveland
“I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.” (Trump)
“Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“The world was gloomy before I won — there was no hope.” (Trump)
“If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrat at the other, all would be well with the country.”
— Andrew Johnson
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the president — or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong — is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“It must be a pretty picture,You dropping to your knees.” (Trump)
“The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.“
— Theodore Roosevelt
“I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“Laziness is a trait in the blacks. … Black guys counting my money! I hate it.” (Trump)
“I think the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It’s not anything they can control.” (Trump)
“Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”
— James Madison
“I will build a great, great wall on our southern border and I will make Mexico pay for that wall.” (Trump)
“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.”
— Ronald Reagan
“Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights and keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose. To that high concept there can be no end save victory.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“We have to all shoulder the responsibility for keeping the planet habitable, or we’re going to suffer the consequences — together.”
— Barack Obama
“An honorable defeat is better than a dishonest victory.“
— Millard Fillmore
“I moved on her like a bitch, but I couldn’t get there. And she was married. I did try and fuck her… I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.” (Trump)
“Every woman should be able to go about her day — to walk the streets or ride the bus — and be safe, and be treated with respect and dignity. She deserves that.”
— Barack Obama
“A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Power always thinks… that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all his laws.”
— John Adams
“I love the poorly educated.” (Trump)
“Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it’s not going to protect you from the coming storm.”
— Barack Obama
“Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.” (Trump)
“Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.”
— Ronald Reagan
“I’m putting the people on notice that are coming here from Syria as part of this mass migration, that if I win, if I win, they’re going back.” (Trump)
“When you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that’s a violation of basic human rights.”
— Jimmy Carter
“Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
“He’s not a war hero. He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.” (Trump)
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?”
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.”
— Andrew Johnson
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
— John F. Kennedy
“He is too illiterate, unread, unlearned for his station and reputation.”
— John Adams
“The bosom of America is open to receive not only the opulent and respected stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations and Religions; whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our rights and privileges.”
— George Washington
“Life is a campaign. Making our country great again is a campaign. For me it’s a campaign, to make America great again is absolutely a campaign.” (Trump)
“If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.”
— Woodrow Wilson
“I cannot, whilst President of the United States, descend to enter into a newspaper controversy.”
— James K. Polk
“I would bomb the shit out of them.” (Trump)
“We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.”
— Jimmy Carter
“I would just bomb those suckers, and that’s right, I’d blow up the pipes, I’d blow up the refineries, I’d blow up every single inch, there would be nothing left. And you know what, you’ll get Exxon to come in there, and in two months, you ever see these guys? How good they are, the great oil companies, they’ll rebuild it brand new… And I’ll take the oil.” (Trump)
“There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.”
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
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