If nothing else, Donald Trump is a one-of-a-kind occupant of the Oval Office. His jaw-dropping corruption, staggering incompetence, mind-numbing policy ignorance, puerile penchant for payback, and unprecedented deceit put the Trump presidency in a class by itself.
Nevertheless, Trump's courtiers, sycophants, and water-carriers have tried to elevate his leadership to a place among the greatest figures in human history. Liberty University President Jerry Falwell, Jr. was not alone in comparing Donald Trump to King David, who "may have committed adultery and arranged the death of his mistress's husband in battle, but despite these considerable failings he had still retained the full favor of God."
After Trump announced his decision to move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, Benjamin Netanyahu joined American evangelicals in declaring Trump a 21st century version of Persian King Cyrus, who 2,500 years earlier "proclaimed that the Jewish exiles in Babylon can come back and rebuild our temple in Jerusalem." And no Republican president can last long without the inevitable comparison to Ronald Reagan. In Trump's case, the task was perhaps best performed by the Rev. Robert Jeffress. Having previously accused Barack Obama of "paving the way for the future reign of the Antichrist," Jeffress explained last week that evangelicals knew that the thrice-married, serial adulterer Trump was "no altar boy."

"The reason we supported President Reagan was not because we were supporting womanizing or divorce. We supported his policies."

But no conservative hagiography of the current Republican president can ever be complete without the invention of parallels to the first one. (After all, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Fox News anchor Bret Baier and Dubya himself equated President George W. Bush with President Abraham Lincoln.) Within days of Donald Trump's inauguration, The Federalist offered "5 Ways Donald Trump Is Abraham Lincoln's True Successor." Fellow thrice-married, serial adulterer Newt Gingrich agreed, telling Sean Hannity on July 23, "I think the person whose situation is most like President Trump's was Abraham Lincoln, adding, "Lincoln is fighting to preserve the Constitution. He's fighting to preserve the union and he's having to do a lot of different things that are very bold and in some cases very radical." Dishonest Donald himself went a step further, boasting "Wow, highest Poll Numbers in the history of the Republican Party. That includes Honest Abe Lincoln and Ronald Reagan."
At the head of the "45=16" pack is pardoned campaign finance fraudster Dinesh D'Souza.
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