Given the utter failure of the United States to achieve any of his Iran war aims, President Trump’s “No More Mister Nice Guy” social media post today seems comically pathetic. But In Donald Trump’s defense, American history is replete with tough-talking Presidents promising to kick ass and take names.

In 1823, James Monroe famously told Congress he would “kick ass and take names” of “Old World powers seeking a foothold in the New World…Capeesh, mother*ckers?”

On the eve of the Mexican-American War in 1846, President James K. Polk met with the Mexican Ambassador to Washington while wearing a t-shirt which read in Spanish, “Don’t Make Me F*ck You Up.”

At the White House Christmas party in 1864, Abraham Lincoln toasted Generals Grant and Sherman with the words, “Make Georgia Howl!” Later, Lincoln told Walt Whitman “I’m going to make Jefferson Davis my b*tch.”

In 1898, President McKinley warned Madrid, “The rain from the Maine will fall mainly on Spain.”

During his 1918 State of the Union Address, President Woodrow Wilson told the nation, “America will make the world safe for democracy but hell for the Huns.”

In a June 7, 1944 radio address following the successful D-Day landings, FDR taunted Adolf Hitler, “I’ve got your Lebensraum right here, you punk-ass b*tch.”

In 2003, George W. Bush had this message for the insurgents in Iraq: “Bring it on.” As a grieving Mary Kewatt told Minnesota Public Radio that summer, “They brought it on, and now my nephew is dead.”

NOTE: The last paragraph is actually true.