One of my old professors I keep in touch with told me he seriously believes that Trump will try to declare a national emergency in 2028, suspend the election, and install Don Junior as president.

68 I was still in elementary school when Nixon flew away in the helicopter. I remember watching it on TV with my parents. It's funny that our elementary school teachers would talk to us so much about Watergate for two years - a bunch of kids. I sort of formed my grown up opinion of Nixon from reading some of his own works, along with Hunter S Thompson's book on the 1972 campaign, All the President's Men, and such. If you've never read Thompson's obit of Bixon, I highly recommend it. It's both brilliant and brutal.

66 Yeah, back in 2016, I figured things were about to get weird, but I didn't think Trump would be such a bad sport. I thought he'd keep popping up on SNL and such, maybe engage in pageantry reflective of his 80s-90s quasi hip hop personality, and all that. I thought he'd have a lighter mood. I was wrong on those counts, but not so wrong that I voted for him.

61 Agreed. Plus, like Trump, he was a cartoonish blowhard. The difference is that LBJ wasn't covered 24/7 in the media with a magnifying glass. If he had been president in the age of the internet, he'd come off pretty much like Trump.

52/53 I'd have to give Nixon the edge over LBJ. Nixon was a more expansive thinker, at least, and had a more interesting personality.
Trump is so chaotic and bombastic; he exhausts me. I don't hate him,though (I try to avoid becoming emotional over politicians). I'd say LBJ & Trump are roughly equal intelligence; I'd wager Nixon exceeds both by twenty IQ points. None of them are blue ribbon piggies in the ethics department.

#45 Interesting. Nixon did kill plenty of children in his secret bombing campaigns in Laos and Cambodia, though. I think he denied such campaigns even existed to his dying day, so far as I can recall.

A question of curiosity for both pro and anti Trump DR scenesters:

Where do you place Trump as a president in relation to Nixon?

42 Hardtack and lukewarm coffee isn't quite the treat a McMuffin & hash browns (and Shamrock Shake) are.