Donald Trump is only the second U.S. president elected to two non-consecutive terms. The first was Grover Cleveland, who bore many similarities to the president-elect during his 19th-century political career,
Donald Trump is now the second president to return to the White House after losing a bid for reelection. The first was Grover Cleveland, who ran a successful campaign in 1884 and 1892. I spoke with my colleague Russell Berman about his recent story on Cleveland’s legacy,
George Cleveland never knew his grandfather, who died in 1908. But with Donald Trump's return, Grover Cleveland is a big deal again.
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.
President Donald Trump’s inauguration to a non-consecutive second term had the beneficial effect of reminding us of Grover Cleveland, the only other president to have achieved this dubious honor.
Hardly a day goes by during the frenetic first fortnight of his presidency that Donald Trump does not lavish praise on his late-19th century predecessor William McKinley, a.k.a. the "Napoleon of Protection.
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Question: Who is Grover Cleveland? George Cleveland ... questions – will need a rewrite. Donald Trump, who lost the presidency to Joe Biden four years ago, returns to the White House on Monday ...
Neither Trump or Cleveland served in the military. Cleveland was exempted during the civil war because two older brothers were already serving, and he was the sole support for their widowed mother. I am confident that Cleveland never labeled those who served as “losers” or “suckers.”
The Abraham Accords agreement is another significant accomplishment for Trump. It signaled a new approach to the Middle East which ended the false belief that the failure of Israel to reach a peace agreement with the Palestinian Authority was the ultimate cause of discord and war in the Middle East.
Presidential historian Alexis Coe has predicted a perilous four years for the Trump administration, as well as the GOP as a whole. In an op-ed for MSNBC, Coe said former President Grover Cleveland’s second term – which she described as “a tragedy in four years” – should serve as a “cautionary tale” for Donald Trump.
Americans are deeply divided along political lines. Everyone knows this, but I recently learned how intrinsic this division is.