The Weekly Purge
Is Donald Trump the Second George Washington?
Sylvester Stallone made a speech at Mara Lago the other day saying, “Trump is the second George Washington,” comparing him and his administration to the first president and the American Revolution. Also in the speech he made comparisons to his Rocky movie, identifying the first scene that pans from Jesus down to Rocky being hit, and in “that moment he was the chosen person.” He clarified, “something was going to happen - this man was going to go through a metamorphosis and change lives. Just like President Trump.” Stallone has been a long-time fan of Donald Trump, in a 2016 interview stating, “I love Donald Trump…(and) certain people (are) bigger than life. But I don’t know how that translates into running the world,” comparing him to Babe Ruth and Arnold Palmer.
So, is Trump the second coming of George Washington?
George Washington was born at Pope’s Creek, Virginia, to Augustine and Mary Ball Washington. His father was a justice of the peace, like his father before him, and a prominent public figure. George didn’t have the British formal education of his brothers, but attended a school in Virginia where he learned mathematics, trigonometry, and land surveying. He became a talented drafter and mapmaker, and improved his writing and penmanship by compiling over a hundred rules for social interaction styled Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation, copied from an English Translation of a French book on manners. After the death of his father when George was just 11 years old, he would travel between his half-brother Lawrence’s farm at Mount Vernon and Belvoir, the plantation of William Fairfax, who became George’s patron and surrogate father. Washington worked with a team surveying Fairfax’s Shenandoah Valley property and received his surveyor’s license from the college of William and Mary. Fairfax appointed him surveyor of Culpeper County, Virginia in 1749. By 1752, he owned over 2000 acres of land, most of which was in the Shenandoah Valley. Washington owned hundreds of slaves, and later in life signed laws both detrimental to slaves, and supporting freed men. In the end, his will called for all of his slaves to be freed along with his wife’s slaves upon her death (on account of the populations being inter-married). He also fed and clothed the old and infirmed, and instructed the young to be educated to read and write. He was one of very few plantation owners in the South who took such actions. He also privately came to support abolition of slavery, but thought it could be accomplished gradually through laws, and feared the disunity it would cause to the nation if rushed. His fears came true after his death when the Civil War broke out over the question of slavery.
Donald Trump was born in Queens, New York to Fred and Mary Trump. His father was a realestate investor and owned racially segregated rental housing in New York’s outer boroughs, built up by his mother from a small fortune made by Fred Trump’s father in the Klondike gold rush running a brothel and bar. Donald went to a series of private schools, and attended Fordham University, and transferred to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1968 with a BS in Economics. In 2015, he threatened his high school, colleges, and the College Board with legal action if they released his academic records. His father employed him in the family business in 1968. In 1973, the government accused Fred and Donald Trump of violations of the Fair Housing Act of 1968 at 39 Trump buildings. Community groups handed their findings to the Nixon Justice Department, which showed that Trump employees were to follow racially discriminatory rental polices, packing minority tenants in an apartment complex in Brooklyn that were 40% black, and excluding African Americans from others, where blacks were only 1% of the tenant population. Fred Trump tasked Donald with finding legal council to fight the Justice Department and found Ray Cohn to be his legal benefactor. Ray taught Donald to use the legal system to attack his foes by destroying their character and credibility to a jury. Cohn did this effectively against Bob Morgenthau and Robert Kennedy to win against the Department of Justice, and continued on as Trump’s primary council for the next 20 years, using the same tactics until his death. Fully inculcated in this approach to dealing with conflict, Trump’s campaign rhetoric and business practices continue to follow suit.
George Washington looked up to his half-brother Lawrence, who served as the Adjutant General of the Virginia Militia, inspiring him to seek military service after Lawrence’s death in 1752. The British and French were vying for control of the Ohio River Valley. The Governor of Virginia appointed him Major in the militia, and his first mission was as a special envoy to take a message to the French to cease building forts and leave the land claimed by Britain. He was also to make peace with the Iroquois Confederacy, and gather intelligence on the French during the journey. After 77 days spent in harsh winter conditions, he completed his mission safely, with the answer that the French would not leave. Promoted to Lt. Colonel, and put in charge of the Virginia Militia Regiment - a force of 300 men - his orders were to move in and remove the French forcibly. As a young officer, he made mistakes that would endanger the mission, and would teach him lessons that would help him later in life.
A detachment of Washington’s militia and Indians attacked and massacred a small force of French. The French force commander was an envoy sent to relay a message to the British, and this infuriated the French when they found their troops slaughtered. Washington retreated and built a makeshift fort for defense, but it was too late, and the French attacked the fort with 900, and Washington was forced to surrender his force. This ignited the French and Indian War. Washington was offered a Captaincy to form a new regiment, but resigned instead seeing it as a demotion.
In 1755 he served voluntarily as an aid to General Edward Braddock in his ill-fated mission with the British Army to attack the French. During an ambush by the French and Indians, more than half the British force became casualties, including General Braddock being mortally wounded. Washington rallied a rear-guard which allowed the remaining forces to disengage and escape, having two horses shot out from under him, and his hat and coat pierced by bullets yet miraculously unscathed. His conduct under fire redeemed his standing, but the new British commander did not include him in future operational planning, and as the war progressed, he clashed with the succession of British officers who would not give him a royal commission.
In the years before the revolution, he got married, and built up his business and public face as a planter of tobacco and wheat, and political figure in the local legislature, and as tensions grew between Britain and the colonies, he became a leading figure in fighting against tyrannical rule from afar, while supporting a strong central government. Selected as a delegate to the First Continental Congress, where he helped train militias. When war began, he joined the Second Continental Congress, and members immediately nominated him to lead the newly created Continental Army.
His command of the Continental Army had its difficulties, including initial failures on the battlefield, insubordination of some officers, and treason of Benedict Arnold and his attempt to give the fort of West Point to the British. In the end Washington won crucial battles, and kept his army and the coalition with France effective, winning the key battle of Yorktown, Virginia, that ended the war.
Donald Trump avoided military service by claiming four college deferments, and a medical deferment because of bone spurs, leaving others to go to Vietnam and fight and die in his place. Fred Trump arranged for this deferment as a favor from a podiatrist, according to the doctor’s daughters. He seems to get around pretty well on his golf course on those bone spurs.
After the troubles Washington encountered in getting financial and logistical support for the army from Congress under The Articles of Confederation, he became a key proponent of the Constitution with a strong central government. When asked to attend the Constitutional Convention in 1787, he at first balked, but eventually relented and lent his attendance and prestige to the efforts as the nominated president of the convention to oversee progress. After a 4 month effort the 39 of 55 delegates approved it.
The electoral college elected him President in its first election. Washington wrote to James Madison: “As the first of everything in our situation will serve to establish a precedent, it is devoutly wished on my part that these precedents be fixed on true principles.” He preferred the title “Mr. President” over other more majestic titles that had been suggested, to make it clear that he was not a king or tyrant. Others included the inaugural address, messages to Congress, and the cabinet form of the executive branch.
He was a good administrator, and made it a point to regularly talk to department heads to get advice. He tolerated opposing views, and ensured the transition of power was smooth and peaceful, over fears of a democratic system leading to violence. He remained nonpartisan throughout his presidency and never joined a political party. Washington opposed political parties and the divisiveness inherent in them, and favored a strong central federal government, and was distrustful of the Republican opposition.
Donald Trump has been a divisive president both in terms of his campaign rhetoric, and enacting policy. In his first term his cabinet had to remind him time and time again that actions he was proposing were against the law, or not in keeping with the respect of the Office of the President. Intolerant of opposing views, President-Elect Trump is currently slating a solid block of loyalists for his cabinet who won’t ask questions or oppose his edicts. On January 6th 2021, George Washington’s fears came true: the first time a sitting president refused to transfer power peacefully and an insurrection and attack on the capital ensued.
Political parties were not just divisive under Trump; he has weaponized the GOP in terms of MAGA loyalists, and cancel culture run amok: if you go against Trump MAGA will primary you if you are in the Republican party. Their followers will attack you online and on the street otherwise. Now with control of all branches of government, MAGA and Trump are focusing on both enacting revenge on those who opposed them, and dismantling the federalist form of government in favor of a christofascist theocracy with a absolute dictator at the head. If you don’t believe me, you can read all about it from the Heritage Foundation: Project 2025 .
Washington was a capable and earnest communicator, able to bridge the gaps between people. His most famous document was his presidential farewell address of 1796. In it he warned of political parties and regional differences breaking apart the country. He stressed the need for a national identify as Americans to hold us together. The conclusion of his address is self reflective and an honest accessment of his administration:
“Though in reviewing the incidents of my Administration I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors. Whatever they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend. I shall also carry with me the hope that my country will never cease to view them with indulgence, and that, after forty-five years of my life dedicated to its service with an upright zeal, the faults of incompetent abilities will be consigned to oblivion, as myself must soon be…”
On January 6th 2021, Donald Trump spoke to the assembled crowd that he had called to the Elipse behind the White House, first addressing ‘Fake News’ to show the crowd size, and then turning to his grievance about the election he gave a rambling speech, using familiar smear tactics honed through his relationship with Ray Cohn:
We have hundreds of thousands of people here and I just want them to be recognized by the fake news media. Turn your cameras please and show what's really happening out here because these people are not going to take it any longer. They're not going to take it any longer. Go ahead. Turn your cameras, please. Would you show? They came from all over the world, actually, but they came from all over our country.
I just really want to see what they do. I just want to see how they covered. I've never seen anything like it. But it would be really great if we could be covered fairly by the media. The media is the biggest problem we have as far as I'm concerned, single biggest problem. The fake news and the Big tech.
Big tech is now coming into their own. We beat them four years ago. We surprised them. We took them by surprise and this year they rigged an election. They rigged it like they've never rigged an election before. And by the way, last night they didn't do a bad job either if you notice.
I'm honest. And I just, again, I want to thank you. It's just a great honor to have this kind of crowd and to be before you and hundreds of thousands of American patriots who are committed to the honesty of our elections and the integrity of our glorious republic.
All of us here today do not want to see our election victory stolen by emboldened radical-left Democrats, which is what they're doing. And stolen by the fake news media. That's what they've done and what they're doing. We will never give up, we will never concede. It doesn't happen. You don't concede when there's theft involved.
Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore and that's what this is all about. And to use a favorite term that all of you people really came up with: We will stop the steal. Today I will lay out just some of the evidence proving that we won this election and we won it by a landslide. This was not a close election.
You know, I say, sometimes jokingly, but there's no joke about it: I've been in two elections. I won them both and the second one, I won much bigger than the first. OK. Almost 75 million people voted for our campaign, the most of any incumbent president by far in the history of our country, 12 million more people than four years ago.
And I was told by the real pollsters — we do have real pollsters — they know that we were going to do well and we were going to win. What I was told, if I went from 63 million, which we had four years ago, to 66 million, there was no chance of losing. Well, we didn't go to 66, we went to 75 million, and they say we lost. We didn't lose.
And by the way, does anybody believe that Joe had 80 million votes? Does anybody believe that? He had 80 million computer votes. It's a disgrace. There's never been anything like that. You could take third-world countries. Just take a look. Take third-world countries. Their elections are more honest than what we've been going through in this country. It's a disgrace. It's a disgrace.
Even when you look at last night. They're all running around like chickens with their heads cut off with boxes. Nobody knows what the hell is going on. There's never been anything like this.
We will not let them silence your voices. We're not going to let it happen, I'm not going to let it happen.
(Audience chants: "Fight for Trump.")
(Trump Thanks Rudy Juliani et al)
And he looked at Mike Pence, and I hope Mike is going to do the right thing. I hope so. I hope so.
Because if Mike Pence does the right thing, we win the election. All he has to do, all this is, this is from the number one, or certainly one of the top, Constitutional lawyers in our country. He has the absolute right to do it. We're supposed to protect our country, support our country, support our Constitution, and protect our constitution.
States want to revote. The states got defrauded. They were given false information. They voted on it. Now they want to recertify. They want it back. All Vice President Pence has to do is send it back to the states to recertify and we become president and you are the happiest people.
And I actually, I just spoke to Mike. I said: "Mike, that doesn't take courage. What takes courage is to do nothing. That takes courage." And then we're stuck with a president who lost the election by a lot and we have to live with that for four more years. We're just not going to let that happen.
Many of you have traveled from all across the nation to be here, and I want to thank you for the extraordinary love. That's what it is. There's never been a movement like this, ever, ever. For the extraordinary love for this amazing country, and this amazing movement, thank you.
(Audience chants: "We love Trump.")
By the way, this goes all the way back past the Washington Monument. You believe this? Look at this. That is. Unfortunately gave, they gave the press the prime seats. I can't stand that.
No. But you look at that behind. I wish they'd flip those cameras and look behind you. That is the most amazing sight. When they make a mistake, you get to see it on television. Amazing. Amazing. All the way back.
And don't worry, we will not take the name off the Washington Monument. We will not cancel culture.
(Trump goes on about the Democrats wanting to tear down the Lincoln and Jefferson memorials)
(Remarks about Rudy Juliani being back in NY?)
We're gathered together in the heart of our nation's capital for one very, very basic and simple reason: To save our democracy.
You know most candidates on election evening and, of course, this thing goes on so long. They still don't have any idea what the votes are. We still have congressional seats under review. They have no idea. They've totally lost control. They've used the pandemic as a way of defrauding the people in a proper election.
But you know, you know, when you see this and when you see what's happening. Number one, they all say, "Sir, we'll never let it happen again." I said, "That's good. But what about eight weeks ago?" You know they try and get you to go.
They said, "Sir, in four years, you're guaranteed." I said: "I'm not interested right now. Do me a favor, go back eight weeks. I want to go back eight weeks. Let's go back eight weeks."
We want to go back and we want to get this right because we're going to have somebody in there that should not be in there and our country will be destroyed and we're not going to stand for that.
For years, Democrats have gotten away with election fraud and weak Republicans. And that's what they are. There's so many weak Republicans. And we have great ones. Jim Jordan and some of these guys, they're out there fighting. The House guys are fighting. But it's, it's incredible.
Many of the Republicans, I helped them get in, I helped them get elected. I helped Mitch get elected. I helped. I could name 24 of them, let's say, I won't bore you with it. And then all of a sudden you have something like this. It's like, "Oh gee, maybe I'll talk to the president sometime later." No, it's amazing.
They're weak Republicans, they're pathetic Republicans and that's what happens.
If this happened to the Democrats, there'd be hell all over the country going on. There'd be hell all over the country. But just remember this: You're stronger, you're smarter, you've got more going than anybody. And they try and demean everybody having to do with us. And you're the real people, you're the people that built this nation. You're not the people that tore down our nation.
The weak Republicans, and that's it. I really believe it. I think I'm going to use the term, the weak Republicans. You've got a lot of them. And you got a lot of great ones. But you got a lot of weak ones. They've turned a blind eye, even as Democrats enacted policies that chipped away our jobs, weakened our military, threw open our borders and put America last.
Did you see the other day where Joe Biden said, I want to get rid of the America First policy? What's that all about? Get rid of. How do you say I want to get rid of America First? Even if you're going to do it, don't talk about it, right? Unbelievable what we have to go through. What we have to go through.
And you have to get your people to fight. And if they don't fight, we have to primary the hell out of the ones that don't fight. You primary them. We're going to. We're going to let you know who they are. I can already tell you, frankly.
But this year, using the pretext of the China virus and the scam of mail-in ballots, Democrats attempted the most brazen and outrageous election theft and there's never been anything like this. So pure theft in American history. Everybody knows it.
That election, our election was over at 10 o'clock in the evening. We're leading Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, by hundreds of thousands of votes.
And then late in the evening, or early in the morning, boom, these explosions of bull****.
And all of a sudden. All of a sudden it started to happen.
(Audience chants: "Bull****.")
Don't forget when Romney got beat. Romney, hey. Did you see his? I wonder if he enjoyed his flight in last night. But when Romney got beaten, you know, he stands up like you're more typical, "Well, I'd like to congratulate the victor." The victor? Who is the victor, Mitt? "I'd like to congratulate." They don't go and look at the facts. No, I don't know. He got, he got slaughtered. Probably, maybe it was OK, maybe it was. But that's what happened.
(Trump makes a series of unsustantiated claims that we don’t have free and fair elections)
And Mike Pence is going to have to come through for us, and if he doesn't, that will be a, a sad day for our country because you're sworn to uphold our Constitution.
Now, it is up to Congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. And after this, we're going to walk down, and I'll be there with you, we're going to walk down, we're going to walk down.
Anyone you want, but I think right here, we're going to walk down to the Capitol, and we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we're probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them.
Because you'll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong. We have come to demand that Congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated, lawfully slated.
I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.
Today we will see whether Republicans stand strong for integrity of our elections. But whether or not they stand strong for our country, our country. Our country has been under siege for a long time. Far longer than this four-year period. We've set it on a much greater course. So much, and we, I thought, you know, four more years. I thought it would be easy.
(Trump talks about things his administration has accomplished)
(More unsubstantiated claims about an election conspiracy and thanking all the MAGA Senators who tried to stop the certification process and a rant about fake news being behind the alleged election fraud)
(More ranting about Hunter Biden, Ukraine conspiracy, and China, and fake news again)
We will not be intimidated into accepting the hoaxes and the lies that we've been forced to believe.
Over the past several weeks, we've amassed overwhelming evidence about a fake election. This is the presidential election. Last night was a little bit better because of the fact that we had a lot of eyes watching one specific state, but they cheated like hell anyway.
(Now he rants about the Georgia race, Brian Kemp, Stacy Abrams, Oprah, the Obamas, and the Supreme Court against him - again smearing people in the process)
But it almost seems that they're all going out of their way to hurt all of us and to hurt our country. To hurt our country.
(More ranting about the Supreme Court and Bill Barr turning against him)
But it shows you the media's genius. In fact, probably if I was the media, I'd do it the same way. I hate to say it. But we got to get them straightened out.
Today, for the sake of our democracy, for the sake of our Constitution, and for the sake of our children, we lay out the case for the entire world to hear. You want to hear it?
(Audience responds: "Yeah")
In every single swing state, local officials, state officials, almost all Democrats, made illegal and unconstitutional changes to election procedures without the mandated approvals by the state legislatures.
That these changes paved a way for fraud on a scale never seen before. I think we go a long way outside of our country when I say that.
So, just in a nutshell, you can't make a change or voting for a federal election unless the state legislature approves it. No judge can do it. Nobody can do it. Only a legislature.
So as an example, in Pennsylvania, or whatever, you have a Republican legislature, you have a Democrat mayor, and you have a lot of Democrats all over the place. They go to the legislature. The legislature laughs at them, says we're not going to do that. They say, thank you very much and they go and make the changes themselves, they do it anyway. And that's totally illegal. That's totally illegal. You can't do that.
(A Long Rant about Pennsylvania alleging widespread election fraud and conspiracy)
By the way, Pennsylvania has now seen all of this. They didn't know because it was so quick. They had a vote. They voted. But now they see all this stuff, it's all come to light. Doesn't happen that fast. And they want to recertify their votes. They want to recertify. But the only way that can happen is if Mike Pence agrees to send it back. Mike Pence has to agree to send it back.
(Audience chants: "Send it back.")
And many people in Congress want it sent back.
And think of what you're doing. Let's say you don't do it. Somebody says, "Well, we have to obey the Constitution." And you are, because you're protecting our country and you're protecting the Constitution. So you are.
But think of what happens. Let's say they're stiffs and they're stupid people, and they say, well, we really have no choice. Even though Pennsylvania and other states want to redo their votes. They want to see the numbers. They already have the numbers. Go very quickly. And they want to redo their legislature because many of these votes were taken, as I said, because it wasn't approved by their legislature. You know, that, in itself, is legal. And then you have the scam, and that's all of the things that we're talking about.
But think of this. If you don't do that, that means you will have a president of the United States for four years, with his wonderful son. You will have a president who lost all of these states. Or you will have a president, to put it another way, who was voted on by a bunch of stupid people who lost all of these states.
You will have an illegitimate president. That's what you'll have. And we can't let that happen.
(Trump persuades the people assembled that the unsubstantiated claims are true and their votes and the election are being stolen)
And just like the radical left tries to blacklist you on social media. Every time I put out a tweet, that's, even if it's totally correct, totally correct, I get a flag. I get a flag.
And they also don't let you get out. You know, on Twitter, it's very hard to come onto my account. It's very hard to get out a message. They don't let the message get out nearly like they should. But I've had many people say, "I can't get on your Twitter." I don't care about Twitter. Twitter's bad news. They're all bad news.
(Continued ranting about social media fact checking and blocking his lies, and that congress should make it illegal to block posts on social media)
They also want to indoctrinate your children in school by teaching them things that aren't so. They want to indoctrinate your children. It's all part of the comprehensive assault on our democracy, and the American people are finally standing up and saying no. This crowd is, again, a testament to it.
(Ranting about how good he is at bringing back soldiers, and how bad his opponents are at it, then more ranting on fake news, ‘illegal’ drop boxes, and unsubstantiated election fraud in general)
The radical left knows exactly what they're doing. They're ruthless and it's time that somebody did something about it. And Mike Pence, I hope you're going to stand up for the good of our Constitution and for the good of our country. And if you're not, I'm going to be very disappointed in you. I will tell you right now. I'm not hearing good stories.
(Trump goes on and on about voter fraud conspiracies with made-up numbers)
So, I mean, I could go on and on about this fraud that took place in every state, and all of these legislatures want this back. I don't want to do it to you because I love you and it's freezing out here. But I could just go on forever. I can tell you this.
(Audience chants: "We love you.")
So when you hear, when you hear, while there is no evidence to prove any wrongdoing, this is the most fraudulent thing anybody has, this is a criminal enterprise. This is a criminal enterprise. And the press will say, and I'm sure they won't put any of that on there, because that's no good. And you ever see, while there is no evidence to back President Trump's assertion.
I could go on for another hour reading this stuff to you and telling you about it. There's never been anything like it.
(…and Trump goes on and on about voter fraud conspiracies, and claims that the Constitution allows him to send the vote back to the states for a re-vote - which it does not, and another oblique threat to Mike Pence about doing his duty to NOT certify [which is not his duty] He also calls for congress and local state houses to pass sweeping election reforms - this after Republicans gutted the Voting Rights Act and Gerrymandered congressional districts.)
We must stop the steal and then we must ensure that such outrageous election fraud never happens again, can never be allowed to happen again.
(Trump continues to rant about all the ways they need to put in place mechanisms to ‘stop fraud’ which equates to voter suppression - making it harder for people to vote)
(More comments about the crowd size, draining the swamp, how the Democrats are illegally taking over the country, how much wall he’s built on the border, how the caravans of illegal immigrants are coming)
I think one of our great achievements will be election security. Because nobody until I came along had any idea how corrupt our elections were.
And again, most people would stand there at 9 o'clock in the evening and say I want to thank you very much, and they go off to some other life. But I said something's wrong here, something is really wrong, can have happened.
And we fight. We fight like hell. And if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore.
Our exciting adventures and boldest endeavors have not yet begun. My fellow Americans, for our movement, for our children, and for our beloved country.
And I say this despite all that's happened. The best is yet to come.
So we're going to, we're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue. I love Pennsylvania Avenue. And we're going to the Capitol, and we're going to try and give.
The Democrats are hopeless — they never vote for anything. Not even one vote. But we're going to try and give our Republicans, the weak ones because the strong ones don't need any of our help. We're going to try and give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.
So let's walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.
I want to thank you all. God bless you and God Bless America.
Thank you all for being here. This is incredible. Thank you very much. Thank you.
Then the insurrection and attack on the Capital was started. People died. Government continuity and the smooth transition of power was threatened.
Placing these two men side by side, it is clear to me that Donald Trump is not like George Washington in any significant way:
George Washington was non-partisan and inclusive; Donald Trump is hyperpartisan (support MAGA or we’ll primary you), and does not reach across the aisle to work with Democrats on laws beneficial to all.
George Washington was interested in his relationship to others, and improving himself; Trump does the minimum to get by, even going so far as to hide his school grades, and disparages others he disagrees with.
George Washington went out of his way to volunteer in service to his country, rushing towards the sound of the guns; Donald Trump lied to get a deferment to avoid service to the nation when called.
George Washington had to be convinced to be President both times, and established the precedent of serving two terms, and peaceful transition of power; Donald Trump is the first President not to abide by the results of an election and insite a mob to attack the Capital while Congress was in session in the process of certifying the election.
George Washington was adamantly against authoritarian dictatorships, and supported the rule of law - no man is above the law; Trump has said he would be a dictator for one day on day one of his second term.
George Washington was introspective and a clear and concise communicator though not considered a great orator; Donald Trump speaks like a school yard bully, and does not honestly reflect on his own actions as they affect other people.
This was a long read, but I like to think it was well worth it even though most of it was Donald Trump’s words. What do you think?
Rereading Trump's January 6th speech makes me think what we're seeing now with project 2025 was signaled back then. I'm surprised by the consistency of focus, albeit unhinged focus.