Sunday, April 15, 2018

what makes the trump presidency so interesting?

Thanks to "Pearls Before Swine" (the best comic strip around, IMHO), I realized something interesting about the Trump presidency. Note, by the way, that "interesting" is subjective.



For the rest of this post, I am ignoring the six cases where two presidents had the same last name.*

Trump is the first president whose last name begins with the same four letter sequence as a past president. The past president in question is Truman. Both "Trump" and "Truman" begin with T R U M.

There have been several pairs that began with the same two letters, and one  (Harrison and Harding) that began with the same three letters. But Trump colluded with Truman to up the ante.

Who says these are boring times?

*Adams, Harrison, Johnson, Cleveland, Roosevelt, Bush

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