{"id":87583,"date":"2026-07-04T00:26:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T00:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/trump-takes-stock-of-other-presidencies-shedding-light-on-his-own\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T00:26:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T00:26:35","slug":"trump-takes-stock-of-other-presidencies-shedding-light-on-his-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/trump-takes-stock-of-other-presidencies-shedding-light-on-his-own\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Takes Stock of Other Presidencies, Shedding Light on His Own"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">President Trump has always stood ready to tear down his immediate predecessors, lobbing deeply personal insults and offering unfavorable interpretations of former presidents <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/12\/10\/us\/politics\/trump-preoccupation-biden.html\" title=\"\">Joseph R. Biden Jr.<\/a> and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/25\/us\/politics\/obama-trump-podcast-interview.html\" title=\"\">Barack Obama<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">But in recent months, he has been reaching further back into American history, either attaching himself to the achievements of past presidents or insisting he would never replicate their failures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">Mr. Trump is \u201ca one-man Sousa Band of trying to put down other presidents or attach himself to the greatness of George Washington or Theodore Roosevelt or Andrew Jackson,\u201d said <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/profiles.rice.edu\/faculty\/douglas-brinkley\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Douglas Brinkley<\/a>, a presidential historian at Rice University.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">The New York Times compiled some of Mr. Trump\u2019s comments on 10 past presidents, offering a glimpse into how he sees himself in the context of history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-uldoq5 e1a6ym290\">16th President<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"css-tqsmb0 e1ioehd20\" id=\"link-28e56344\"><span>Abraham Lincoln<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<blockquote class=\"css-1vtnwha\">\n<div class=\"css-0 edevkc22\">\n<h2 class=\"css-1671zjp edevkc20\">The people that make the biggest impact, they\u2019re the ones that they go after.<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-126szcw edevkc21\">Said at an April 25 news conference at the White House.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">After a gunman tried to break into the White House Correspondents Dinner in an apparent attempt to assassinate Mr. Trump,a reporter asked the president why this kept happening to him. It was the third time someone tried to kill him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">Mr. Trump named Lincoln, who unified the North and South after the Civil War and was then shot and killed by Confederate sympathizer, to suggest he was in good company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">\u201cI hate to say I\u2019m honored by that,\u201d he added, \u201cbut I\u2019ve done a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<blockquote class=\"css-1vtnwha\">\n<div class=\"css-0 edevkc22\">\n<h2 class=\"css-1671zjp edevkc20\">That was always the one I didn\u2019t want to be.<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-126szcw edevkc21\">Said at a June 17 news conference announcing the framework of a deal with Iran.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">The war with Iran inflated energy costs for Americans, jeopardizing Mr. Trump\u2019s promise to address the affordability crisis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">When announcing the framework for a deal with Iran, Mr. Trump suggested he had pushed toward a resolution \u201crather than possibly going into a depression, rather than having your favorite president be Herbert Hoover.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">Mr. Trump accused him of causing the Great Depression, but historians generally don\u2019t agree \u2014 Hoover was <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gilderlehrman.org\/history-resources\/spotlight-primary-source\/herbert-hoover-great-depression-and-new-deal-1931%E2%80%931933\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">less than eight months<\/a> into his presidency in October of 1929 when the stock market crashed. But he became increasingly unpopular for <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gilderlehrman.org\/history-resources\/spotlight-primary-source\/herbert-hoover-great-depression-and-new-deal-1931%E2%80%931933\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">failing<\/a> to address the economic turmoil head on and was voted out in favor of Franklin D. Roosevelt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">By his own admission, Mr. Trump was concerned about his economic legacy. Presidencies are often shaped by how voters feel about the economy, and Americans have consistently named the economy as their <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/01\/us\/politics\/polls-senate-control.html\" title=\"\">top concern<\/a> as the country nears midterm elections.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<blockquote class=\"css-1vtnwha\">\n<div class=\"css-0 edevkc22\">\n<h2 class=\"css-1671zjp edevkc20\">He had our American flag planted on every part of the world.<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-126szcw edevkc21\">Said on July 1 at the opening of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">Mr. Trump was filled with praise for Roosevelt. But rather than dwell on his progressive domestic achievements that <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gilderlehrman.org\/history-resources\/essays\/square-deal-theodore-roosevelt-and-themes-progressive-reform\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">built out the federal government<\/a>, Mr. Trump seems to see his own <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2026\/02\/11\/us\/trump-foreign-policy-world-quotes.html\" title=\"\">obsession<\/a> with how America is perceived internationally as an extension of Roosevelt\u2019s leadership, which coincided with the rise of the United States as a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.trlibrary.com\/tr\/tr-mount-rushmore\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">global power<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">The magnitude of Roosevelt\u2019s domestic accomplishments may have led to his likeness being carved into Mount Rushmore, but Mr. Trump\u2019s approach to American power, which has included proposing to annexing Canada, Mexico, Greenland and even Venezuela, diverges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">Mr. Trump appeared to be reaching into \u201ca grab bag of history\u201d and missing the nuances, said <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sipa.columbia.edu\/communities-connections\/faculty\/timothy-naftali\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Naftali<\/a>, a presidential historian at Columbia University. For all of the power America accumulated, Roosevelt did not \u201ctake anything for America,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<blockquote class=\"css-1vtnwha\">\n<div class=\"css-0 edevkc22\">\n<h2 class=\"css-1671zjp edevkc20\">They call it the \u2018Donroe.\u2019<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-126szcw edevkc21\">Said in a Jan. 8 interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">Days after the U.S. military successfully dropped into Venezuela and extracted its president, Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, Mr. Trump hinted that he might lead the United States to intervene in other international arenas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">Mr. Trump was asked whether he was calling that strategy the \u201cDonroe Doctrine,\u201d after James Monroe\u2019s 1823 unilateral declaration of American power and interest in the Western Hemisphere that was eventually used to justify U.S. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/history.state.gov\/milestones\/1801-1829\/monroe\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">intervention in Latin America<\/a>. But he shied from the title that some supporters had tossed around.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">\u201cI didn\u2019t call it that,\u201d he said, \u201cbut they\u2019re calling it this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">Mr. Trump, who has called the declaration Monroe\u2019s \u201cclaim to fame,\u201dthen launched a war on Iran, wading into the possibility that his legacy would be shaped by the foreign conflicts that he <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/07\/us\/politics\/trump-new-wars-compensation-fund.html\" title=\"\">campaigned against<\/a>. But the war also re-established the United States\u2019 as an interventionist military power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">\u201cHe wants his legacy to be that he was a key power,\u201d Mr. Brinkley said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<blockquote class=\"css-1vtnwha\">\n<div class=\"css-0 edevkc22\">\n<h2 class=\"css-1671zjp edevkc20\">Andrew Jackson was treated horribly.<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-126szcw edevkc21\">Said on Jan. 6, before Republican members of the House.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">Five years to the day his supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol, Mr. Trump seemed to see in Jackson a fellow sufferer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">Mr. Trump was impeached a second time for inciting that mob with a speech refusing to concede the election he had just lost to Joseph R. Biden Jr. Over the years he has made it clear he begrudges his treatment by Congress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">He begrudges Jackson\u2019s treatment, too. Still, \u201che never got impeached twice,\u201d Mr. Trump said. In fact, Jackson was never impeached, only <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.senate.gov\/about\/parties-leadership\/censure-president-jackson.htm\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">censured by Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">\u201cI got impeached twice over nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-11\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<blockquote class=\"css-1vtnwha\">\n<div class=\"css-0 edevkc22\">\n<h2 class=\"css-1671zjp edevkc20\">What a mess.<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-126szcw edevkc21\">Said on March 9 at a Republican conference.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">The <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/31\/us\/politics\/jimmy-carter-hostages.html\" title=\"\">pitfall of Carter\u2019s presidency<\/a> was the Iran hostage crisis, the 444 day standoff over 52 Americans taken captive by militants from the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">Several weeks into what Mr. Trump had told American would be a short conflict with Iran, Carter\u2019s biggest political blunder was evidently on his mind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">\u201cLook at what happened with the helicopters and the hostages,\u201d Mr. Trump said. \u201cIt cost them the election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-uldoq5 e1a6ym290\">40th president<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"css-tqsmb0 e1ioehd20\" id=\"link-6265ca0\"><span>Ronald Reagan<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-12\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<blockquote class=\"css-1vtnwha\">\n<div class=\"css-0 edevkc22\">\n<h2 class=\"css-1671zjp edevkc20\">I thought he was great, great style and everything.<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-126szcw edevkc21\">Said in an interview in Beijing with Fox News Host Sean Hannity, aired May 14.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">\u201cBut he was not good on trade,\u201d Mr. Trump quickly added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">Mr. Trump has previously <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/4180918\/donald-trump-ronald-reagan-political-movement\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">compared<\/a> his own political movement to that of Reagan, the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reaganlibrary.gov\/reagans\/reagan-administration\/reagan-presidency\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">popular<\/a> Republican president whose policies are still held up as an example by modern conservatives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">Mr. Trump sees himself as an icon of the American right, as Reagan has become. But he doesn\u2019t appear to share an interest in Reagan\u2019s traditional conservatism and has turned the Republican Party toward his own right-wing populism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">Still, Mr. Trump seems happy to lean on Reagan\u2019s popularity, once sharing on social media <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/07\/08\/politics\/trump-fake-reagan-quote-fact-check\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a fake quote<\/a> in which Reagan praised a young Mr. Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-uldoq5 e1a6ym290\">37th president<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"css-tqsmb0 e1ioehd20\" id=\"link-61bdced7\"><span>Richard Nixon<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-13\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<blockquote class=\"css-1vtnwha\">\n<div class=\"css-0 edevkc22\">\n<h2 class=\"css-1671zjp edevkc20\">I wouldn\u2019t have preferred Nixon.<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-126szcw edevkc21\">Said at a June 17 news conference announcing the framework of a deal with Iran.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">In the same breath that he said he did not want to make economic missteps akin to Herbert Hoover\u2019s, Mr. Trump added that he would not want to be the president behind Watergate, perhaps the most consequential political corruption scandal to embroil a sitting U.S. president.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">Mr. Trump <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2020\/07\/05\/trump-nixon-watergate-344769\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">knows the scandal well<\/a>, saying he learned from it not to repeat the firings of Nixon\u2019s <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/10\/21\/659279158\/a-brief-history-of-nixons-saturday-night-massacre\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday Night Massacre<\/a>, or to tape incriminating conversations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">But perhaps the biggest lesson was not to give up office. Though Nixon resigned while facing almost certain impeachment and removal, Mr. Trump seems to have seen it as decision to accept defeat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">\u201cHe left. I don\u2019t leave,\u201d Trump once said of Nixon. \u201cBig difference. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/06\/10\/trump-impeachment-nixon-1359209\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">I don\u2019t leave.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-uldoq5 e1a6ym290\">39th president<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"css-tqsmb0 e1ioehd20\" id=\"link-4e90838e\"><span>William McKinley<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-14\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<blockquote class=\"css-1vtnwha\">\n<div class=\"css-0 edevkc22\">\n<h2 class=\"css-1671zjp edevkc20\">He was the tariff king.<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-126szcw edevkc21\">Said on July 1 at the opening of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">At the event honoring Theodore Roosevelt, Mr. Trump digressed on a president about whom he had often spoke positively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">McKinley was a proponent of economic policies that today might be seen as <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/01\/us\/politics\/trump-fact-check-american-history.html\" title=\"\">Trumpian<\/a>. He also notched some victories that Trump seems to have designed for his own legacy, including installing protectionist tariffs. They did not, as Mr. Trump suggested, make the country <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/12\/06\/business\/william-mckinley-trump-tariffs.html\" title=\"\">\u201ctremendous amounts of money<\/a>,\u201d something Mr. Trump also <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/12\/business\/economy\/americans-pay-tariffs-trump-fed.html\" title=\"\">vowed<\/a> his tariffs would do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">Still, tariffs are part of McKinley\u2019s legacy \u2014 something Mr. Trump hasn\u2019t been able to replicate. It was one of several big efforts of Mr. Trump\u2019s second term that <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/20\/us\/politics\/supreme-court-trump-tariffs.html\" title=\"\">didn\u2019t stick<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">\u201cThe Supreme Court said, \u2018You went too far,\u2019\u201d Mr. Naftali said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-uldoq5 e1a6ym290\">1st president<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"css-tqsmb0 e1ioehd20\" id=\"link-cf4b1f6\"><span>George Washington<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-15\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<blockquote class=\"css-1vtnwha\">\n<div class=\"css-0 edevkc22\">\n<h2 class=\"css-1671zjp edevkc20\">The city named in honor of General George Washington.<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-126szcw edevkc21\">Said on June 24 at the exposition on the National Mall in honor of America\u2019s 250th birthday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">To a brand-obsessed businessman like Mr. Trump, George Washington\u2019s greatest legacy is perhaps all that is named after him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">In his second term, Mr. Trump has become preoccupied with renovation and building projects at the White House and across the capital, dotted with buildings and monuments named for celebrated American presidents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">Mr. Trump, a real estate developer known for naming his projects after himself, has launched an effort to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2026\/06\/24\/us\/trump-dc-costs-ballroom-arch-pool.html\" title=\"\">leave his imprint<\/a> on many of those American icons and even <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/12\/us\/politics\/trump-fact-check-triumphal-arch-reflecting-pool.html\" title=\"\">construct new ones<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">\u201cHis building program in the second term is clearly a sign of his focus on legacy,\u201d Mr. Naftali said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">\u201cHe wants his own Washington.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/03\/us\/politics\/trump-takes-stock-of-other-presidencies-shedding-light-on-his-own.html\">Source link 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