Our unhinged megalomaniacal POTUS was at it again today, claiming to Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo that his first year was nothing short of spectacular:
Trump: “I had the greatest year, the greatest opening year. I ended 8 wars.The greatest economy ever. But even when you have a great president, they tend to lose the midterms. It doesn’t make sense to me.We’ve had the greatest year in the history of the presidency, first year. We should be given credit.”
We’d say, hold yur horses, POTUS! Them ain’t close to the facts. Not at all.
When it comes to triumphant first years, for example, we think of President Dwight Eisenhower’s prompt Korean War settlement versus the Donald’s utter failure to end the pointless and massive drain on American resources in Ukraine.
As it happened, Eisenhower had campaigned in 1952 on the promise that he would go to Korea and settle the war as his first and foremost order of business.
On October 24, 1952, while campaigning in Detroit, Michigan, Eisenhower announced that he would“forego the diversions of politics and concentrate on the job of ending the Korean War…”He announced to a very attentive audience,“I shall go to Korea.”
Ike won in a true landslide with 442 electoral votes versus Trump’s marginal 312-vote victory versus the 270 votes need. Yet Eisenhower didn’t wait for the grass to grow while obsessing about the size of his win or wait until a month after inauguration to stage a unproductive photo op with the leader of South Korea, as Trump famously did with Zelensky on February 28th.
Instead, Ike secretly went to Korea in late November 1952 even before he was sworn in. Once in Seoul, however, Eisenhower quickly ascertained that the real obstacle to peace was his own headstrong client, South Korean President, Syngman Rhee.
Needless to say, Ike didn’t get played like Trump has been by Zelensky in Ukraine. In the latter case, the war didn’t end in 24 hours as the Donald promised because he hasn’t grabbed the bull by the horns and told Zelensky in no uncertain terms –
“…..agree topartitionyour country between the Ukrainian north and west and the Russia-speaking Donbas and Black Sea rim or we’re out of here by the 4th of July.”
Source: Antiwar.com
