There Has Never Been a President Like Donald Trump

Ronald L. Feinman is the author of Assassinations, Threats, and the American Presidency: From Andrew Jackson to Barack Obama (Rowman Littlefield Publishers, 2015).  A paperback edition is now available.

There has never been a President similar to Donald Trump.

Even Richard Nixon, Andrew Johnson, and Andrew Jackson, with all of their faults and shortcomings, come nowhere near the reality of Donald Trump.

No President has lied on the level and consistency that Donald Trump has.

No President has had the kind of record of mistreatment and disrespect of women as Donald Trump has.

No President has promoted white supremacy and justified right wing vigilantes as Donald Trump has.

No President has ridiculed and shown no empathy toward disabled people in public as Donald Trump has.

No President has been as openly cruel and heartless toward those less fortunate as Donald Trump has.

No President has openly exploited America with the level of his spending on himself on the public dollar as Donald Trump has.

No President has ever attacked his critics and opponents on the level of viciousness and crudeness as Donald Trump has.

No President has had such an incompetent and corrupt group of Cabinet officers and other top officials as Donald Trump has.

No President has had a First Lady of such ugly prejudices as her husband as Donald Trump has.

No President has had children of such levels of corruption and arrogance as Donald Trump has.

No President has promoted conspiracy theories consistently as Donald Trump has.

No President has been as cruel and malicious but claimed to be “religious” as Donald Trump has.

No President has read so little on a regular basis, or been as ignorant on a score of subjects, including among others, history, science, economics, foreign policies, and spelling, and has no interest in facts, as Donald Trump has.

No President has displayed such a poor level of vocabulary usage as Donald Trump has.

No President has come to the defense of a person who has committed murder as Donald Trump has, whether Mohammed bin Salman or Kyle Rittenhouse.

No President has embraced authoritarian dictatorship, and endorsed their strongman policies as Donald Trump has.

No President has become so enamored with Russian government leaders, as Donald Trump has with Vladimir Putin, a danger to American national security.

No President has set out to destroy all policies and programs from earlier Presidents of both parties as Donald Trump has.

No President has set out to undermine government agencies, including the federal bureaucracy, the foreign policy apparatus, the intelligence agencies, and the basic functioning of government as Donald Trump has.

No President has been as openly harsh and uncooperative, and dismissive of any association with his predecessors as Donald Trump has.

No President has been as mentally and psychologically ill and dangerous as Donald Trump has.

No President has conducted and acted like a demagogue out to divide people on a consistent basis as Donald Trump has.

No President is consistently seen as much of a danger to national security as Donald Trump has been.

No President, if he were to be reelected, would be as much of a threat to the Constitution and rule of law, as Donald Trump would be.