The comparison being drawn is not a favorable one

We all knew trump was going to compare himself the second he started fist pumping. That’s literally the only thing that was going through his tiny pea brain. I commented such the minute it happened.

American history is a violent history. I don’t think anyone here is reading Trump as being anything like TR, but there are many lessons to be drawn by comparing the political environments of then and now. Here is an interesting non-wiki article discussing some of the comparative history