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Trump signs proclamation to try to prevent changes to gold-covered Oval Office
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He won't be leaving voluntarily. He's not building that ballroom and golf course for the next guy. He was talking about after he's dead. He's starting to focus on his "Legacy," which he thinks he can save, even though he is already tightly ensconced as the worst president of all time, by a long ways.
It's not even close. The next worse president you could point to is maybe Nixon? And while Nixon was not a good guy, Trump makes him look like an upstanding citizen.
Jackson and Wilson were much worse than, and set the stage for, Nixon.
Jackson caused the single deepest, (by percentages, not dollar value because there were a lot fewer dollars back then,) longest, and worst depression in US history, while also overseeing multiple genocides. (Trail of Tears, The Long Walk, etc.)
Wilson on the other hand increased the power of the presidency to a tryannical degree, passed the Insurrection and Sedition Act of 1913, authored and pushed Southern Revisionism, segregated the Federal Government for the first time in history, and that's just some of the stuff he did here at home, much less instituting Wilsonian Doctrine, which is what changed the US into "The Defenders of Democracy™."
That being said, I don't think Trump was worse than Jackson or Wilson, but damn is he trying.
Thanks for bringing up Wilson in particular since a lot of people know Jackson was a shitter. Seriously I so wish the Republicans had back Roosevelt or Roosevelt had backed off of running third party, the US would probably be in a better place today.
I've said for years that if I had a time machine, I'd stop Hitler and the Nazis, as well as Stalin from gaining power, by going to the 1970's and picking up as much of the hideously unhealthy fast food that Taft never got to eat, take it back to 1910 and 1911 and feed his fat ass till he has a heart attack and doesn't screw up the 1912 election.
This is how you also supercharge the FDA a couple years into its existence, they'd be equipped like the 1990s ATF.
That's funny as fuck. Might have a secondary effect on fast food existing today.
We sell lettuce wraps. "What's in it?" Lettuce.
I remember an idle conversation back in 2015 when I compared trump to Jackson, and the guy I was talking to was like "wasn't Jackson the worst president ever?"
Wait what golf course? Don't tell me he's building a golf course on the White House property
It's a public golf course in Southeast DC that he's trying to commandeer. At least I think that's what they're referring to.
If you don't know DC, the Southeast quadrant is the blackest part of the city. He illegally cut down a ton of trees, and a judge ordered a stop to that, but of course they ignored that and kept going with the destruction.
Interestingly, the course is public, so relatively affordable to play at and many of its patrons aren't white so, can't be having that!
I don't know how close it is to the white house, but i think that's why he had all those cherry trees cut down.