Current Events > Has any US President been like Trump?

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I'm talking about how nuts he is on the "I'm not guilty but it's still not law breaking if I did it so..."
He's most likely guilty and he's on the defensive but he's being accused of literal treason or at the very least working with (not literal but technically true) a direct competitor (Russia) in being a superpower

The only thing I can remember is the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky thing but that was less of a "get the fuck out off the office" and more of a "you really shouldn't have done that please leave".

Then again I'm Irish and just trying to comprehend it all. I'm seeing it all as it's almost Cold War 2.0 and Trump is stupid enough that he's an ally of a (not direct but still) enemy to being a superpower
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Nixon
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I'm 27 and no POTUS has been aas openly corrupt as Trump in my life.
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EffectAndCause posted...

Nixon

Nixon resigned though. What I mean is Trump seems to be holding a last stand and Nixon at least had common sense
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Warren Harding:

Like Nixon, Harding has a historical reputation marred by the scandals that beset his administration. But Harding was a very different personality from Tricky Dicky: he was sunny, personable, determined to get along with everybody. His corruption was a result of surrounding himself with his old cronies and never, apparently, being able to stand up to anyone.

Harding received the Republican nomination in 1920 only because the convention was deadlocked and delegates turned to him a relatively obscure junior senator from Ohio as the ultimate dark horse. In the election, Harding famously misspoke, promising voters a return to something called normalcy a word that has since entered political vocabulary. The neologism was a telling one, though, because Hardings appeal was to a return to small-town values, a rejection of the grandiosity and utopianism (as it was now perceived by some) of Woodrow Wilson, who had ended his presidency by failing to bring the United States into the League of Nations.

In contrast to his predecessor, not even Hardings biggest supporters would have called him especially intelligent or knowledgeable about the world. But what marked Harding as a failure ensuring his place at or near the bottom of almost every modern scholars survey of best and worst presidents is the abiding sense that he was simply out of his depth in the White House. He loved playing poker and womanising, but was less interested in running the country. His cabinet and official appointments included a large coterie of old pals from Marion, Ohio, including several of his relatives. Many of these people made personal fortunes from taking bribes and astonished congressmen and worldly Washington journalists alike by their ignorance of the responsibilities of the offices they held.

The most egregious scandal of Hardings administration involved the corrupt sale of licences to drill for oil on public lands. But this, and other evidence of how little he had been in control of his administration, came to light only after Harding died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 57. He was deeply mourned as a calm presence; a man of peace for the postwar period. Despite a few recent efforts, including by John Dean, a Nixon aide at the centre of the Watergate scandal, to exculpate him, no president has suffered such a collapse in their posthumous reputation as Harding.

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Nixon just didn't want to deal with peoples shit and was like "fuck it then".

Trump just likes to make people angry.
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Nixon said "when the President does it, it's not illegal".
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