The Biggest Loser: Presidential Edition

[mjmlabs]

We are told that soon-to-be Former President Trump has no patience for lengthy briefing documents. We are also asked to believe that this is not due to dyslexia, some other attentional and/or learning disability, nor the vanity which prevents him from wearing his required reading glasses whenever someone might witness that. No, it is patiently explained to us, Donald J. Trump is simply a visual learner.

Okay, I can buy that if I have to.

And of course, we all know that he prides himself on accomplishing feats hitherto unseen; "like nobody's ever seen before" is one of his stock phrases of praise.

And he is, by all accounts, quite active in social media.

So let's help him out, by spreading this visual representation of one of his truly unprecendented accomplishments as far and wide as we can; I'm sure he'll enjoy gazing at it and reminiscing over the next, oh, four or five years, not least because it puts him smack dab in the center, which is of course exactly where he deserves to be:

https://i.imgur.com/GnEHDe9l.jpg

I didn't create it, and I have no idea who did. But you can download a copy from my imgur account and do with it what you will: https://i.imgur.com/GnEHDe9.jpg

Full-size version also here, for easy right-click copying:
https://i.imgur.com/GnEHDe9.jpg

Truly, no other President in our history has ever hit the trifecta that Donald J. Trump has. It's quite ... remarkable. :palatr:

[Jaglavak]

Its a Festivus miracle!

[Sputnik]

I'm beginning to think that people are happy the gonad was cheated out of the election by an army of midnight voters, rigged voting machines and long lines of dead people voting in swing states.

[Derleth]

I'm beginning to think that people are happy the gonad was cheated out of the election by an army of midnight voters, rigged voting machines and long lines of dead people voting in swing states."[The] good news I can report from Pennsylvania is that President Trump received 100 percent of the dead mother vote here in our commonwealth during this last election." — Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (https://www.thedailybeast.com/pennsylvania-lt-gov-john-fetterman-trolls-gop-on-voter-fraud-says-trump-got-100-of-the-dead-mother-vote)

So he got that going for him. Which was nice.

[stormie]

I can't identify most of those Presidents, ie, 90% of the black-and-white photos or that onoe painting . . . who is that, Benjamin Franklin? Was he even a President? Oh, history, thou has exited my brain cells . . .

I'm reading a book called "The Irregulars" about an informal group of British low-key spies functioning in the US around the end of WWII, mostly trying to change public perceptions so that the US would enter the war. Elimination of the electoral college was being discussed as a post-war change even then (but was forgotten about as the diplomatic fight over economic stuff became complex).

[BJMoose]

The painting is John Adams, who is forever cursed to be second in the hearts of his countrymen.

I am fairly certain of all but two.

[Derleth]

I can't identify most of those Presidents, ie, 90% of the black-and-white photos or that onoe painting . . . who is that, Benjamin Franklin? Was he even a President? Oh, history, thou has exited my brain cells . . .Ben Franklin was never President. He was one of the Founding Fathers, so he gets to be on currency, though.

The black-and-white dude at the center of One-Term is William Henry Harrison, who died a month into his term. Right above him is Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln. Then clockwise is Trump, Benjamin Harrison, John Quincy Adams, Grover Cleveland, and William Taft. Right between and above Cleveland and Taft is Hoobert Heever Herbert Hoover, directly left of him is John Adams (note the lack of Quincy), and the ones in color I think we're all old enough to know.

The beardo in Lost Popular Vote is Rutherford Hayes, beneficiary of the Crime of '76.

[Sputnik]

President Trump and anyone else linked to the U.S. strike one year ago that killed a notorious Iranian general "will not be safe on Earth," a top official in Tehran warned Friday, according to a report.

I suppose wishing the Iranian's luck would be un-American here.

[C2H5OH]

President Trump and anyone else linked to the U.S. strike one year ago that killed a notorious Iranian general "will not be safe on Earth," a top official in Tehran warned Friday, according to a report.

I suppose wishing the Iranian's luck would be un-American here.

If you wait until the afternoon of the 20th, you'll be fine...

[Zeener Diode]

The painting is John Adams, who is forever cursed to be second in the hearts of his countrymen.

I am fairly certain of all but two.

Moving clockwise: Andrew Johnson, Trump, Benjamin Harrison, John Quincy Adams, Grover Cleveland*, William Howard Taft, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Martin Van Buren, John Tyler, Herbert Hoover, John Adams, George HW Bush.

With exception to Presidents who died in their first term, missing are: John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Chester A Arthur, Rutherford B Hayes, James Buchanan, James K Polk.

*Grover Cleveland served two full terms, non-consecutively.

[stormie]

Thanks Zeener!

James K Polk was AWESOME! Did any other sitting President decide not to run for a second term just because he didn't want to, as memorialized in this lovely song?

H9SvJMZs5Rs

[Derleth]

Thanks Zeener!

James K Polk was AWESOME! Did any other sitting President decide not to run for a second term just because he didn't want to, as memorialized in this lovely song?

H9SvJMZs5RsRutherford Hayes also declined to seek reelection.

[BJMoose]

When T.R. was elected to the job he had inherited from McKinley, he promised not to run again in four years. Though he would regret his promise, he kept it. So he waited four years, then ran again, even though that meant challenging an incumbent of his own party. It did not go well.