On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Vice President Mike Pence compared Donald Trump to MLK and was quickly shut down by every thinking American as well as the son of MLK himself. On Thursday, Trump decided to compare himself to the president who turned the country around during The Great Depression and navigated us through World War II. The internet quickly shut that nonsense down, as well.
Aside from throwing people in detention centers because of their race and nationality, the presidencies of Trump and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt bear no resemblance. Their economic policies are as far from one another as the North and South Pole.
FDR’s policies brought about the end of the Great Depression and the beginning of a period of great economic prosperity in which the middle class flourished and the United States became an economic superpower. Trump inherited a flourishing economy from President Obama.
FDR’s policies were based on economic equality, ensuring that the middle class could flourish and the poor could, at the very least, meet their basic survival needs. Trump passed a tax cut bill that benefits only the super-rich and tipped the balance of economic equality even further toward the wealthy.
FDR used his power as president to benefit the American people with a goal of working toward fairness for all workers. Trump is currently holding nearly a million federal workers, full-time workers with families and responsibilities, hostage for an unnecessary and ineffective monument to his racist campaign promises.
Twitter wasn’t seeing much of a comparison between the two presidents, either. Read some of their comments below:
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