There's a reason we don't see Abraham Lincoln's face.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

[ProfessorGAC]

1. Beauty!

Nicely done.

[struggle4progress]

2. It's hard to imagine Honest Abe enjoying the company of Tricky, W, or Chump

I don't think conservationist progressive Teddy would have thought much of that crowd either

[hunter]

3. Yeah, really??? Roosevelt?

Roosevelt, a Progressive reformer, earned a reputation as a "trust buster" through his regulatory reforms and anti-trust prosecutions. His presidency saw the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act, which established the Food and Drug Administration to regulate food safety, and the Hepburn Act, which increased the regulatory power of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Roosevelt took care, however, to show that he did not disagree with trusts and capitalism in principle, but was only against monopolistic practices.

...

Roosevelt was a prominent conservationist, putting the issue high on the national agenda. Roosevelt's conservation efforts were aimed not just at environment protection, but also at ensuring that society as a whole, rather than just select individuals or companies, benefited from the country's natural resources. His key adviser and subordinate on environmental matters was Gifford Pinchot, the head of the Bureau of Forestry. Roosevelt increased Pinchot's power over environmental issues by transferring control over national forests from the Department of the Interior to the Bureau of Forestry, which was part of the Agriculture Department. Pinchot's agency was renamed to the United States Forest Service, and Pinchot presided over the implementation of assertive conservationist policies in national forests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Theodore_Roosevelt

Trump is exactly the sort of scum Teddy Roosevelt would scorn.

[grantcart]

6. First politician to advocate for universal health insurance

[struggle4progress]

11. +

[bobbieinok]

4. Or Eisenhower either!

He actually fought Nazis. He'd despise T.

[struggle4progress]

15. "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense,

a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."

Dwight Eisenhower
"The Chance for Peace"
delivered Before the American Society of Newspaper Editors
April 16, 1953

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=9819&st=every+gun+that+is+made&st1=#axzz1ZRmq4yT4

[bobbieinok]

18. Thank you for this important quote. From a republican who was an actual human being

[Stuart G]

19. Great Quote....thanks for posting this. One of my favorite quotes any politician of any kind has..

ever made. Thank You again..

[hunter]

26. My Wild West paternal grandpa was a solid Eisenhower Republican...

... and Army Air Corp officer in World War II.

My grandpa wasn't without fault, he lost his shit when I married in his words "a Mexican girl," which just wasn't done in his family, but to his credit he got over it.

Nevertheless, he put his ass on the line to fight Nazis. I doubt he'd have been duped by a New York City slicker grifter and draft dodger like Trump, or a worm like Mike Pence.

[GoCubsGo]

20. I am surprised he even included GHW Bush in that monstrosity.

Didn't the elder Bush ban Mushroom Dick from Barbara's funeral? And, didn't he make it known that he voted for Hillary?

[jmowreader]

27. I think TR would have liked Nixon

Nixon was probably worse than his reputation makes him out to be, but the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act and the Occupational Safety and Health Act all have Nixon's signature on them.

[struggle4progress]

30. IMO Nixon signed those only because it would have been political suicide to oppose them

[jmowreader]

32. Doubtful any Republican president after Nixon would have signed them

Trump would have sent nasty tweets about the "job destroying Democrats" until they were all withdrawn.

[struggle4progress]

34. IIRC Under Nixon, some government forestry phones were automatically forwarded

to the private offices of timber lobbyists

Nixon never seemed to me a great friend of any public health and safety or environmental protection initiative

[bobbieinok]

5. Too many white supremacists would freak out if they saw Lincoln

[lisby]

7. Who painted this glurge? NT

[EX500rider]

13. Here:

"Called The Republican Club, the artwork was created by Andy Thomas. The artist, who lives in Missouri, United States, was "ecstatic" to discover his art displayed in the White House, he told Time.

Republican congressman Darrell Issa reportedly gave it to the President.

Mr Thomas has painted a number of iconic figures and events from US history, including civil war battles and other paintings of past presidents spending time together. The artist has painted an equivalent version of the scene hanging in the White House featuring Democrat presidents."

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-45861868

[geardaddy]

24. Grr, the BBC is using "Democrat" the way Goopers do.

"The artist has painted an equivalent version of the scene hanging in the White House featuring Democrat presidents."

And why is that racist Jackson in the Democratic version? They should have Cleveland or Jefferson instead.

[Kurt V.]

29. Notice the same woman in both.

She's coming to take her place at the table.

[Mr. Big]

14. A hackjob named Andy Thomas

[pdsimdars]

8. And shouldn't Trump be FATTER and his hands SMALLER? Let's be accurate.

[miffelplix]

17. Yes, but if he was painted true to scale 1 or perhaps 2 more presidents would have to be blocked out

[spanone]

9. they have a bar in hell?

Note that trump is the tallest guy at the table...yet honest Abe was 6'4"

[rurallib]

16. Trump's diaper is full

[spanone]

21. well, that does make sense since he's full of....

[RGTIndy]

12. Coolidge is lurking around

hoping in vain to be invited over. Grant on the other hand, appears to be deciding whether to kick everyone's ass.

[gopiscrap]

35. welcome to DU

[Tommy_Carcetti]

23. Well, yeah.

He's not a Republican after all. (Although Lincoln was a personal hero of his).

IIRC, the artist did a companion piece for Democratic presidents.

It's kitsch art. Fine for souvenir shops at Dulles or National, but rather silly to have at the actual White House.

[geardaddy]

25. They should replace TR and Lincoln

with Hoover and Harding.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

28. Where is Donnie Two Scoops' right hand?

My guess he is jerking off while fantasizing about Stormy Daniels.

[MontanaMama]

31. Massaging the mushroom?

[Blue_true]

33. Lincoln, Teddy, Ike would be democrats today.

They stood for the exact opposite of what the Republican Party stands for.