RJ draws several editorial cartoons each week for his substack, e pluribus cartoonum, and for Roll Call, the newspaper of Congress and Capitol Hill. His work is widely syndicated to print newspapers by Cagle Cartoons.
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The big ego of presidential power takes over and *obliterates* any learning from the past. GWB was ridiculed no end for that declaration, in a pilot's uniform no less. At least Trump was not in uniform; it would have been really ridiculous.
So perfect! No one learns from history. Well, no one ever thought either of them had any idea of what happened in the past, whether ancient or current.