Here's why Teddy's on Rushmore and Trump will never be
President Theodore Roosevelt said: “Ours is a government of liberty, by, through and under the law. No man is above it, and no man is below it.”
Now Teddy was a sickly child who pretty-much self-healed; a lifelong naturalist and noted historian; a real cowboy and big-game hunter; got elected a New York state assemblyman; was assistant secretary of the Navy; led the Rough Riders up San Juan Hill; was a New York City police commissioner; governor of New York; vice president; and two-term president.
He wrote 18 books (with a couple of genuine best-sellers and no ghost writers); explored the Amazon for two years; won the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize; was a true progressive and social reformer; architect of the Panama Canal; and his likeness is carved on Mount Rushmore.
Trump, on the other hand, played golf, screwed around, ducked Vietnam with “bone spurs,” hosted a scripted TV show, and took $413 million of his father’s money and proclaimed himself “self-made.”
But as T.R. said, “Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”
So lets consider what we’ll try to forget about Trump.
We’ll start with the salacious: his $130,000 hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels and the concomitant investigations into campaign finance violations, then segue to the Summer Zervos’s defamation lawsuit after she exposed his alleged sexual assault on her.
Of course that’s tabloid stuff, like his three wives and numerous girlfriends. Very Trumpian and disgusting.
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"A great and very brave soldier"
