Alexis Coe
presidential historian
Alexis Coe is a presidential historian and a senior fellow at New America and the New York Times bestselling author of “Young Jack: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1957” (2025), “You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington” (2020) and “Alice+Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis” (2014).
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The military parade that just happens to fall on Trump’s birthday stands in stark contrast to other presidential birthday celebrations.
As a historian invited to speak before Congress, I expected to converse with serious people. That’s not what happened.
The Founders knew a throne when they saw one — and that’s how they’d see Qatar’s $400 million “gift” to President Trump.
Trump is haunted by the specter of a predecessor he can never eclipse and has an animus toward anything that bears John F. Kennedy’s name.
This President’s Day is a good time to remember that Trump shares some of our past presidents’ worst qualities.
They both won a second term after losing the previous election. But Cleveland’s second administration was such a disaster it put his party out of power for decades.
