Wasn't that Teddy Roosevelt? A President who was shot by a assassin, intervened to prevent any harm coming to the assassin, and then carried on with the speech which lasted 50 minutes, with an actual bullet lodged in his pectoral muscle. His main defense was a doubled 50 page speech (far more than Trump is known able to read) and a metal eyeglass case. Still, the bullet remained in President Roosevelt to the grave.
Trump, ducking from the sound of a rifle shot and the whish of the bullet, gave a fist pump as he was quickly removed from the stage and driven at high speed while counter-snipers annihilated the would-be assassin. It appears that his famous injury was not from the passing bullet, but the exposed hammer on the weapon in a waist holster worn by one of the protectors that caught his ear as he ducked, making a small nick that healed rapidly.
Such a gap between these two men, both elected President.
historian Doris Kearns Goodwin noting that
“Conservatives, who had utterly dominated the Republican Party for three decades, feared the impulsive young president would prove a ”bucking bronco,” upsetting the alliance between business and government that had delivered unparalled prosperity at the turn of the century. Reformers hoped Roosevelt’s vigorous leadership would refashion the Republican Party into the progressive force it had been under Abraham Lincoln, endeavoring to spread prosperity beyond the wealthy few to the common man.”
and
Shortly after taking office, Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to dinner at the White House, sparking a bitter reaction across the heavily segregated South. While Roosevelt initially planned more dinners with Washington, he later avoided further invitations in favor of business appointments to retain political support in the white South.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodo...1%E2%80%931909)
Reading further, he would now be labelled a radical, anti-business leftist commie socialist pig by the current GOP leadership.
But they do have some small commonalities:
Roosevelt's willingness to exercise power extended to attempted rule changes in American football, forcing retention of martial arts classes at the U.S. Naval Academy, revising disciplinary rules, altering the design of a disliked coin, and ordering simplified spellings for 300 words, though he rescinded the latter after ridicule from the press and a House protest.
and then they diverge
Pure food and drugs
Roosevelt responded to public outrage over abuses in the food packing industry by pushing Congress to pass the Meat Inspection Act of 1906 and the Pure Food and Drug Act. Conservatives initially opposed the bill, but Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, published in 1906, galvanized support for reform. The Meat Inspection Act banned misleading labels and preservatives with harmful chemicals. The Pure Food and Drug Act banned impure or falsely labeled food and drugs from being made, sold, and shipped. Roosevelt served as honorary president of the American School Hygiene Association from 1907 to 1908 and convened the first White House Conference on the Care of Dependent Children in 1909.
as Trump works to eliminate government protections for food and drugs and schools and children, not to mention Roosevelt's efforts to protect American natural resources that Trump now wishes to clear cut and ravage with mines.
He hit the nail on the head and I think the root of today's price increases and other economic troubles:
However, in August, Roosevelt had exploded in anger at the super-rich for their economic malfeasance, calling them "malefactors of great wealth" in a major speech, "The Puritan Spirit and the Regulation of Corporations". Trying to restore confidence, he blamed the crisis primarily on Europe, but then, after saluting the unbending rectitude of the Puritans, he went on:
"It may well be that the determination of the government...to punish certain malefactors of great wealth, has been responsible for something of the trouble; at least to the extent of having caused these men to combine to bring about as much financial stress as possible, in order to discredit the policy of the government and thereby secure a reversal of that policy, so that they may enjoy unmolested the fruits of their own evil-doing."
Regarding the very wealthy, Roosevelt privately scorned, "their entire unfitness to govern the country, and ... the lasting damage they do by much of what they think are the legitimate big business operations of the day".
For certain long term trends are forced on companies when they deal with international trade, but for local trade and for short periods they can effectively collude to make anyone unfavorable to their desires look bad by making a hard swing on prices and blaming the current, unfavored administration for it. But now those malefactors of great wealth appear to have direct control of the three branches of government.
We needed a Teddy Roosevelt. We got a Donald Trump.