The Michael Knowles Show - May 08, 2021


U.S. Presidents RANKED! Who Was The Most Legendary？


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With a foggy headed man in the Oval Office, I figured now would be a better time than just about ever to give out a definitive ranking of the presidents. I have given you the definitive list of the most legendary presidents.

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00:00:37.580 Hey everybody, Michael here.
00:00:38.940 A lot of times people will ask a very basic question about American history.
00:00:43.440 They'll say, who was the best president?
00:00:45.680 Who was the worst president?
00:00:47.460 How would you rank the presidents?
00:00:48.900 I have done it.
00:00:49.460 I have given you the definitive list of the most legendary presidents.
00:00:56.960 Without further ado, check it out.
00:00:59.020 With a foggy headed marionette in the Oval Office, I figured now would be a better time
00:01:04.740 than just about ever to give out a definitive ranking of the presidents.
00:01:10.440 You know, other people, they'll say this is S tier and this is F tier.
00:01:14.040 We have different categories.
00:01:15.400 For the top tier, the S tier, we have King Arthur, the ideal leader.
00:01:20.920 At the next level, right below that, where you can really show, you know, you got some
00:01:25.540 Gouliuns. 1.00
00:01:26.620 Oh, the language on you.
00:01:28.740 You know, you're really tough.
00:01:30.000 Maybe you're not quite the top, but you're pretty good.
00:01:32.040 King Leonidas.
00:01:34.060 In the third tier, kind of middle of the road, some good stuff, but a little bit weak,
00:01:38.800 you've got King Mufasa.
00:01:41.200 The level below that, now things are getting pretty bad.
00:01:43.440 You have King Lear.
00:01:45.480 And then at the lowest tier, we of course have the Burger King level of commander in
00:01:49.820 chief.
00:01:50.080 Those are the five categories.
00:01:51.680 Arthur, Leonidas, Mufasa, Lear, and Burger.
00:01:56.960 Now let's get started.
00:01:59.280 I'm going to try to get through at least half of the presidents and give them the definitive
00:02:03.720 ranking.
00:02:04.220 Let's begin with numero uno, George Washington.
00:02:08.760 George Washington, first president of the United States.
00:02:10.620 No question whatsoever.
00:02:12.340 He is King Arthur.
00:02:13.720 He may actually be the reincarnation of King Arthur.
00:02:16.400 The indispensable man.
00:02:17.840 Love lots of the founding fathers.
00:02:19.600 He was the best among them.
00:02:21.320 Without George Washington, there would not be a United States of America, I'm pretty confident
00:02:26.600 to say.
00:02:27.500 So he's the one.
00:02:28.360 He gets the top spot.
00:02:29.360 No surprise there.
00:02:30.900 Next up, John Adams.
00:02:32.960 The second president of the United States.
00:02:35.180 He was less commanding, perhaps, than George Washington.
00:02:40.460 But he was still really, really great.
00:02:43.000 I'm going to give him Leonidas.
00:02:45.980 Okay.
00:02:46.400 He's right below that top tier.
00:02:48.740 Like Leonidas, he lost.
00:02:50.180 Right.
00:02:50.280 So he won one term, but then he lost to Thomas Jefferson in the election of 1800.
00:02:55.280 The other thing I really like about John Adams, other than he was a conservative and a real
00:02:59.660 conservative.
00:03:00.240 You know, he defended the British soldiers in the Boston Massacre because he felt that they
00:03:04.960 were in the right and that the way the press had been covering this was not fair.
00:03:09.500 But then, of course, he was one of the great patriots in the revolution.
00:03:11.860 So really fair-minded, very conservative.
00:03:13.660 He had an acid tongue.
00:03:15.180 He once said of Alexander Hamilton, who was a member of Adams' own party, that he was the
00:03:21.700 brastered bat of a scotch peddler and there were not enough whores in Philadelphia to contain 1.00
00:03:27.200 his super abundance of secretions.
00:03:29.660 So that's, you know, that's pretty terrific diction.
00:03:32.180 He'll get that Leonidas level.
00:03:34.820 Next up, Thomas Jefferson, the man who beat John Adams.
00:03:38.000 Sometimes I'm going to give Jefferson, he gets Leonidas too.
00:03:44.160 He's not quite King Arthur because some of his ideas were a little kooky, but this is
00:03:49.580 also the reason why Jefferson gets such a high ranking is he talked like a big lib.
00:03:55.920 If you read a lot of what Jefferson wrote, he really sounded kind of like a lib.
00:04:01.280 However, he behaved in many ways like a conservative.
00:04:04.980 He expanded the United States.
00:04:06.740 He was a great defender of liberal education, liberal in the good sense of that word, even
00:04:11.940 though he did, he kind of weakened it a little bit, founded the University of Virginia, all
00:04:15.600 around really, really impressive guy.
00:04:17.620 So, okay, he's up there with Leonidas.
00:04:19.800 Andrew Jackson, seventh president of the United States.
00:04:23.780 Everyone wants me to say Burger King level or at the very best, he's a Mufasa type or a 1.00
00:04:32.160 King Lear, no. 0.98
00:04:34.880 Andrew Jackson also gets Leonidas level.
00:04:38.740 I know, they're going to call me a racist or a sexist or a thisist or a thatist.
00:04:42.460 Oh, Andrew Jackson, he was mean to the Indians or something, which frankly, it was actually
00:04:46.560 his successor who was far meaner to the Indians.
00:04:48.800 But let's not forget, Andrew Jackson fought wars.
00:04:53.220 He was a war hero, not just against the Indians, but against the British.
00:04:56.620 He was the hero of New Orleans.
00:04:57.900 When it comes to the Indian wars, by the way, for the people who want to say that he was
00:05:01.200 a big racist or something like that, he actually adopted an Indian child who had been orphaned.
00:05:06.120 So I don't think he harbored any kind of personal bigotry.
00:05:08.720 He was a man of and for the people, demonstrated great courage.
00:05:13.600 He was also against the kind of bureaucratized government, the professional administrative class.
00:05:20.520 He was really against that, had a little bit of populism.
00:05:22.960 I think this is why Trump liked Jackson so much.
00:05:25.820 So I don't care.
00:05:26.400 He founded the Democrat Party.
00:05:27.700 Okay, whatever.
00:05:28.500 That's fine.
00:05:28.860 He still gets Leonidas tier for me.
00:05:31.260 He pursued necessary national policies and had the courage to do it.
00:05:36.320 Next up, William Henry Harrison.
00:05:38.820 Most people don't think about that name.
00:05:40.800 Harrison was the shortest presidency that we've ever had.
00:05:44.620 Harrison was president for exactly one month.
00:05:47.780 So he, you know, he can't be King Arthur.
00:05:49.960 He didn't make it that long.
00:05:51.100 He can't be Leonidas, really.
00:05:53.360 But I'll give him, gosh, should I give him Leonidas too?
00:05:56.400 No, that's a little too much.
00:05:58.080 I'll give him Mufasa.
00:05:59.620 He's that kind of Mufasa tier.
00:06:00.880 The reason I really like him, though, is, first of all, he's the hero of Tip Canoe.
00:06:05.740 He was a good, good, strong American military leader.
00:06:08.640 And he didn't like that he was being insulted on the campaign trail.
00:06:12.200 He didn't like that people were saying he'd lost a step or two.
00:06:15.100 So for his inauguration, he went out and it was a rainy, cold day.
00:06:20.340 And he gave a two-hour long speech.
00:06:22.620 And they had already trimmed it down.
00:06:23.880 He gave a two-hour long speech in the cold and in the rain.
00:06:27.920 He then attended multiple inauguration parties.
00:06:30.400 And he just went out.
00:06:31.580 He really did it up.
00:06:32.440 And then he took sick and he died shortly thereafter.
00:06:34.800 But you got to give him credit for the gumption.
00:06:37.320 A lot of courage.
00:06:38.040 So good on him.
00:06:39.980 Next up, Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States.
00:06:43.240 He is the only president, I think, who could vie with Washington for that King Arthur level.
00:06:51.840 Because his mind was so capacious.
00:06:54.020 He was such a symbol of the American dream, the American idea.
00:06:59.020 A guy rose up from nothing.
00:07:00.720 Very serious.
00:07:02.320 Had studied Shakespeare in the King James Bible.
00:07:04.860 That was what made up the bulk of his education.
00:07:08.680 He did try toward nobility throughout his entire life.
00:07:14.540 And where he fell short, he at least was always trying.
00:07:18.200 He was really striving for self-improvement.
00:07:20.060 Held the country together.
00:07:20.900 And in that sense, re-founded the nation after the Civil War.
00:07:24.400 So he gets up there with King Arthur.
00:07:26.640 Next up, James Garfield, 20th president of the United States.
00:07:31.260 Everybody forgets James Garfield.
00:07:33.120 He also died shortly after he was brought into office.
00:07:35.920 He died.
00:07:36.340 I think he was assassinated.
00:07:37.840 Could be wrong about that.
00:07:38.540 He might have just taken sick and died.
00:07:39.700 But anyway, that's not why I'm interested in Garfield.
00:07:42.780 Garfield, I guess, would get a Mufasa level.
00:07:46.240 He wasn't super duper impressive.
00:07:47.920 Except that he published the first blank book in American history.
00:07:53.460 This was called The Political Achievements and Statesmanship of General Hancock, regular Democratic nominee for president.
00:08:00.480 It was five blank pages.
00:08:01.900 The first blank book in American history was Republicans trolling Democrats in the 1880 presidential election.
00:08:07.880 For that alone, he has to at least rank, you know, in that middle tier, if not a little bit higher.
00:08:12.860 Next up, the vice president to James Garfield, who became president upon his death, who published the second blank book in American history in the next presidential election.
00:08:23.460 That would be Chester A. Arthur, a highly, highly underrated president.
00:08:28.720 Chester Arthur had a very strong record.
00:08:32.520 He was good on matters of civil rights.
00:08:36.420 He was a relatively modest president.
00:08:40.180 He was relatively humble.
00:08:43.100 Republicans right now, by the way, can learn something from Chester Arthur in the way that he handled the immigration question.
00:08:49.060 You know, Republicans have this thing where we want to have national borders.
00:08:52.740 We want to control who gets to come into the country. 1.00
00:08:55.040 We want there to be national unity.
00:08:56.480 Of course, every country wants to do that.
00:08:58.280 But in the United States, if you say that you want to enforce very basic laws of immigration, you're called a racist.
00:09:04.200 That's racist!
00:09:04.960 And Chester Arthur, there was a big immigration law that came up during his presidency in 1882, and he vetoed the first version of the bill because he felt that it would have been punitive and violated some treaties.
00:09:17.020 And so he sent it back.
00:09:18.120 And then there was another bill that came to his desk, which was, you know, a little bit more moderate in its immigration policies.
00:09:25.100 And he signed that one into law.
00:09:26.300 So you can be tough on it without, you know, falling into bigotry or racism or something like that.
00:09:31.780 It was moderate.
00:09:32.680 Moderation is a virtue.
00:09:33.940 But it was strong in the sense that it did enforce national borders and, you know, assimilate new immigrants who would come in and maintain that national unity.
00:09:44.280 Great stuff, Chester Arthur.
00:09:45.460 He does not get enough credit.
00:09:47.220 People forget about him, but he really did a good job.
00:09:49.200 Took over after Garfield.
00:09:51.540 So I guess I'll put him, I'll put him at Mufasa level too.
00:09:55.300 Some interesting reforms under him.
00:09:56.520 Next up, Grover Cleveland.
00:09:57.840 I'm not saying I love Grover Cleveland.
00:09:59.620 He was a big dem.
00:10:00.700 But he has the distinction of being the 22nd and the 24th president.
00:10:06.800 He is the only president who won non-consecutive terms.
00:10:10.200 So good on him for that.
00:10:11.760 You got to give him some credit.
00:10:12.840 He's at least, he's at least a Mufasa. 0.90
00:10:15.420 I think he, no, we'll give him a Mufasa.
00:10:18.060 You want to give him that Leonidas because he was just so tough that he went and got that second term.
00:10:22.620 But I'll give him the Mufasa level.
00:10:25.120 And then we get to very possibly the worst president in the history of the United States.
00:10:30.040 Woodrow Wilson.
00:10:31.900 28th president.
00:10:33.100 Boo! 0.83
00:10:33.940 Woodrow Wilson only became president, by the way, because Teddy Roosevelt wanted to come back into power.
00:10:39.000 So he split the conservatives who would have been voting for his successor, Taft.
00:10:44.280 And that, by splitting the right, gave Woodrow Wilson a way to enter the White House and destroy our country.
00:10:49.920 Wilson is the most consciously progressive president in American history.
00:10:54.200 He said that the old constitutional government is outdated.
00:10:56.700 It's based on the laws of Isaac Newton and a fixed universe and permanent human nature.
00:11:00.480 So you got to ditch all that.
00:11:01.680 We're living in the age of Darwin, baby.
00:11:03.540 Everything's evolving.
00:11:04.540 We're using the power of rock and roll to change the world.
00:11:07.460 Woo! 0.99
00:11:07.600 We need to let government bureaucrats just run the whole country absent any accountability to the people. 1.00
00:11:13.260 He just ruined everything, just about.
00:11:15.760 Everyone always goes after Wilson for being a racist.
00:11:18.680 Like, sure, that's bad, you know, but when you consider the list of the horrible things this guy did,
00:11:22.780 I don't even know if it's on the first three pages.
00:11:25.160 That's how bad his presidency was.
00:11:28.620 He's going to be King Lear.
00:11:30.460 The reason he's not all the way down at Burger King is because he really did die kind of mad and furious
00:11:37.000 and ripping his hair out because finally, after he had almost thoroughly destroyed the country,
00:11:42.360 the Senate refused to go along with his stupid United, or at that time, the League of Nations plan.
00:11:49.760 So they wouldn't sign on to it.
00:11:51.040 And he was really upset by that.
00:11:52.160 And he died from the stress.
00:11:53.960 So, you know, kind of like Lear, he's just screaming and yelling,
00:11:56.560 blow wind, crack your cheeks.
00:11:59.000 Next up, Warren Harding.
00:12:01.740 Oh, Warren Harding, you know, that guy's at least a Mufasa.
00:12:04.860 He is.
00:12:05.300 Everyone thinks he's a Burger King.
00:12:06.580 Everyone says, oh, Harding, he's one of the worst presidents in American history.
00:12:10.060 Very, very underrated president.
00:12:12.300 When he died in office, he was one of the most popular presidents in the history of the country.
00:12:16.580 He was really strong on various matters, you know.
00:12:21.840 He, like, how do I put this?
00:12:23.420 I sound like I'm Donald Trump.
00:12:24.280 He was really strong on the thing.
00:12:25.760 You know the thing, they always try to hit him on Teapot Dome.
00:12:29.440 This was the scandal for Harding that, you know, there was some moderate sort of corruption.
00:12:35.360 That was just a way to distract from him.
00:12:36.960 He had a very good record.
00:12:38.180 He was very popular.
00:12:39.220 He was serving the interests of the people.
00:12:40.500 He was a modest reformer.
00:12:42.260 I give him Mufasa.
00:12:43.300 Next up, Calvin Coolidge, Silent Cal, last of his breed.
00:12:47.860 Gotta love Silent Cal.
00:12:50.360 I would put him at, put him at a Leonidas level.
00:12:53.560 The reason I put him at a Leonidas level is he was so deferential to the American tradition.
00:12:58.260 He was so reverent toward George Washington.
00:13:01.640 He was so modest in his own personal comportment.
00:13:05.140 He really stood firm with this changing tide where you were going to get more and more of a sort of aggressive celebrity presidency.
00:13:11.360 He stood firm against that.
00:13:13.160 Silent Cal, he was good.
00:13:14.020 Only president to ever shrink the government.
00:13:15.280 Next up, Franklin Roosevelt, 32nd president of the United States.
00:13:20.760 This one kills me because on the one hand, he's the most effective president we've ever had.
00:13:27.700 He was a king.
00:13:28.360 He made himself a king.
00:13:30.360 Whereas someone like Calvin Coolidge would rather leave office than stay in office longer than George Washington.
00:13:36.440 Roosevelt, he wanted to stay there four terms.
00:13:38.000 He would have stayed there longer had he not died.
00:13:39.500 Roosevelt just utterly upending the country, implementing the sort of government that Woodrow Wilson had designed.
00:13:49.020 So he was ruthlessly effective, but it was all bad.
00:13:52.480 So should he rank really high up on the list or really low?
00:13:54.720 I'm going to put him really low.
00:13:55.940 He is the Burger King.
00:13:57.280 Not because he was a joke, not because he was incompetent.
00:14:00.120 Burger King is a very successful company.
00:14:01.500 But because he was not, he was no King Arthur.
00:14:06.020 Let's put it that way.
00:14:07.440 Next up, Dwight D. Eisenhower.
00:14:10.800 He was a Republican.
00:14:12.640 He was a war hero, but he was kind of a lib.
00:14:15.420 Let's get busy.
00:14:17.380 This is the problem.
00:14:18.600 This is really tough.
00:14:19.440 So I guess I'd give him Mufasa level.
00:14:23.140 Maybe his heart was in the right place.
00:14:24.860 Maybe he was trying to do good stuff.
00:14:27.040 But he ultimately was not particularly successful.
00:14:30.260 He, in many ways, accelerated the liberalization of America.
00:14:35.140 This is why William F. Buckley Jr., when he founded the sort of post-war conservative movement,
00:14:39.260 he was pretty cool to Ike.
00:14:41.480 They wanted a more conservative candidate.
00:14:43.820 Eisenhower much more from the liberal wing of the party.
00:14:46.340 On the flip side of that, you have John F. Kennedy.
00:14:48.940 John F. Kennedy was from the more conservative wing, anti-communist wing of the Democratic Party.
00:14:54.300 Now, I'm not one of these people that idolizes Kennedy.
00:14:56.960 You know, he's fine.
00:14:57.920 He wasn't president for very long.
00:14:59.060 I like your funny words, magic man.
00:15:02.000 I would probably rank him, though, at a Leonidas level.
00:15:06.860 The reason I would put him at Leonidas is, you know, he was a lib, and in his personal life,
00:15:11.160 he was a bit of a degenerate.
00:15:12.760 But he was a staunch anti-communist.
00:15:17.840 He loved Joseph McCarthy.
00:15:19.740 Actually, John F. Kennedy's brother, Robert Kennedy, went to Joe McCarthy's funeral.
00:15:25.820 That's how much the Kennedys loved McCarthy.
00:15:28.020 He was the most toughest anti-communist crusader we had.
00:15:30.840 So I'd give him Leonidas for that.
00:15:32.880 And then, unfortunately, the communists took him out.
00:15:35.760 Next up is LBJ.
00:15:38.020 LBJ.
00:15:38.460 Also, he's another one like FDR.
00:15:41.740 LBJ, 36th president, pushed through the great society, radically upended our culture and our political system.
00:15:50.900 And really, in a way, he sort of refounded the country in terms of the legal and political upheavals during his reign.
00:15:58.120 So very, very effective, great at amassing power.
00:16:00.740 If you read the biography of LBJ by Robert Caro, you see that this guy is as dishonest as they come.
00:16:08.600 This guy was stealing elections back in college.
00:16:10.700 He stole an election for his little staff club when he was working on the Hill.
00:16:15.500 He certainly stole that 1948 Senate election in Texas, which is how he then became senator, vice president, and then president after Kennedy died.
00:16:22.760 So the effect of LBJ, pretty weak stuff.
00:16:28.320 I would put him at the Lear level because also by the time he ran for re-election, or wanted to run for re-election, he couldn't.
00:16:34.620 He just, the popularity was not there.
00:16:36.460 Next up, Richard Nixon.
00:16:39.200 Richard Nixon is a tragic case because in many ways he was a terrific president.
00:16:43.280 He was one of the great political figures of his age.
00:16:46.820 Nixon always wins.
00:16:49.680 He was basically the only person who believed Whitaker Chambers when Whitaker Chambers said that there are commies in the government, up to and including Alger Hiss, who helped found the U.N. at the State Department.
00:17:00.620 Guys like Harry Dexter White at Treasury.
00:17:02.920 Everyone said, oh, you're crazy, this is conspiratorial.
00:17:05.480 No way, all the libs tried to downplay it.
00:17:07.340 But no, there were commies throughout the U.S. government who were taking direct orders from Moscow and who were serving as Soviet spies.
00:17:14.940 So Nixon knew it, he caught it, they never forgave him for it.
00:17:18.080 They never forgave him for taking down Alger Hiss. 0.90
00:17:20.700 That's why there were so many shenanigans in 1960 and that's why the deep state stole the election from him, or rather stole the presidency from him after he won re-election later on.
00:17:29.540 However, Nixon let his paranoia run away with him.
00:17:34.340 He made some crucial political mistakes and he went down because of it.
00:17:38.580 I'm not saying it was fair, but he probably went down a little bit like King Lear.
00:17:42.000 Too bad, because if not for that, you know, he's either a King Lear or a Leonidas.
00:17:49.600 He's one of the two.
00:17:50.660 It just depends on kind of what part of his career you're going to focus on.
00:17:54.320 So you know what, because I want to take a more positive view of Nixon, I'll give him the Leonidas thing.
00:17:58.600 But he did go down, so in some ways he's kind of like King Lear.
00:18:01.180 Make of that what you will.
00:18:02.240 Jimmy Carter, Burger King.
00:18:05.280 Done.
00:18:05.780 That's it.
00:18:06.120 It's easy.
00:18:06.700 Ronald Reagan.
00:18:08.260 Reagan, 40th President of the United States.
00:18:10.300 Really terrific.
00:18:10.960 He's a Leonidas.
00:18:12.300 He's not quite a King Arthur.
00:18:13.780 I love Reagan, but he's not quite a King Arthur.
00:18:15.840 But he was great.
00:18:16.620 He understood what was going on.
00:18:18.140 He stood firm.
00:18:19.000 He won the Cold War.
00:18:20.380 He had a clear view of the world.
00:18:21.980 His legacy has been tarnished by a bunch of squishes who pretend to speak for him, 1.00
00:18:26.420 and they call themselves Reaganites, but they're not really.
00:18:28.860 Reagan was a lot tougher than people give him credit for.
00:18:31.140 Next up, George H.W. Bush.
00:18:33.680 He's Mufasa, I guess.
00:18:36.980 I'm being generous, I think, to George H.W. Bush.
00:18:39.200 You know, he was an admirable guy.
00:18:41.660 He lived an admirable life.
00:18:42.700 He was from the liberal wing of the Republican Party, but upright guy who just, at the end
00:18:47.220 of the Cold War, when he could have gone really, been really tough, when he could have
00:18:53.300 really focused on the challenges that we had, he basically embraced a kind of liberal
00:18:59.600 internationalism.
00:19:00.820 So the Cold War had roiled the United States for the latter part of the 20th century.
00:19:06.600 We win it.
00:19:08.320 Reagan wins it.
00:19:09.040 The Berlin Wall comes down.
00:19:10.680 And George H.W. Bush, instead of focusing on the cultural new Cold War that was going
00:19:15.380 on in the United States, he decided to look abroad.
00:19:18.140 And famously, you saw this one in the 1992 Republican nominating convention.
00:19:22.940 There were two candidates.
00:19:24.660 Pat Buchanan, who was the social conservative, and George H.W. Bush, who was the liberal Republican.
00:19:29.220 And in the speeches, Buchanan gave the famous culture war speech, which I talk about in my
00:19:33.340 book, Speechless Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, and George H.W. Bush talked about how
00:19:37.200 the real fight now is to just make a lot of money, and we need to control the markets around
00:19:40.900 the world.
00:19:41.980 So we made some more money, and we lost the whole culture. 0.99
00:19:44.340 It's too bad.
00:19:45.060 Bill Clinton was basically just a continuation of George H.W. Bush.
00:19:50.240 They were both liberal centrist internationalists.
00:19:53.960 There's not much of a difference between them.
00:19:58.520 I guess Clinton was more of a degenerate in his personal life, and had creative uses for
00:20:04.460 cigars and things like that.
00:20:05.740 I did not have sexual relations with that woman. 0.99
00:20:09.740 But, you know, I put him, I don't know, what's he?
00:20:12.400 I guess he's sort of like a Mufasa in this.
00:20:14.260 I mean, no, he's a Burger King.
00:20:15.140 He's a clown, right?
00:20:15.860 Bill Clinton's just a clown, and won't really be remembered for much of anything.
00:20:20.420 Because he didn't even, you even ask, what did he stand for?
00:20:23.020 He stood for his own pleasure, basically.
00:20:25.340 George W. Bush.
00:20:26.740 Poor guy.
00:20:27.420 He actually, I do think, had some beliefs, but he just was not very effective, and he
00:20:32.420 kind of got rolled by a lot of people.
00:20:34.280 And so he was upright in his personal comportment, but in terms of the efficacy of his presidency,
00:20:38.900 it was pretty weak stuff.
00:20:39.740 He's a Mufasa. 0.95
00:20:40.820 Barack Obama.
00:20:42.840 Obama was effective.
00:20:44.240 He really was effective.
00:20:45.720 And so in that sense, you know, in a way, you want to give him credit for being a big,
00:20:49.740 tough guy, but because of how bad the effect of his policies were on the country, you got
00:20:55.500 to make him Burger King.
00:20:56.800 Then we get to Donald Trump, the best president of my lifetime.
00:20:59.500 I haven't been around very long, but he, I'd call him a Leonidas.
00:21:03.980 He's not, he's not a King Arthur.
00:21:07.620 He's got, he's got some personal issues.
00:21:09.620 He would be the first one to tell you that.
00:21:11.360 But he did fight really hard.
00:21:13.220 He fought for a good cause and he lost like Leonidas.
00:21:17.080 He was ultimately unsuccessful, but he put up a good fight.
00:21:20.540 I think he inspired a lot of people.
00:21:22.080 I hope that, you know, like Leonidas loses at the Battle of Thermopylae, but the Greeks 1.00
00:21:25.620 win the war about a year later.
00:21:27.460 Hopefully, you know, Trump, they went after him, they went after him.
00:21:30.780 He fended them off, you know, repeatedly.
00:21:32.860 But then, you know, in the end, ultimately they finally got him.
00:21:36.560 But hopefully he can inspire the rest of us conservatives to win the longer war.
00:21:41.360 And finally, Joe Biden, Joe Biden, is there another tier?
00:21:46.300 Can I have a tier?
00:21:46.840 I don't even want to give him credit for being Burger King.
00:21:49.480 I think that the Burger King stands for much more than Joe Biden does.
00:21:53.540 And I think the Burger King is in much greater control of his corporation than Joe Biden is
00:21:58.120 in control of the country.
00:21:59.780 Come on, man.
00:22:00.720 So he's some, he's some lower tier.
00:22:03.000 He's some lesser fast food restaurant.
00:22:06.300 So what could be below Burger King?
00:22:09.300 I guess, I guess Joe Biden, he's more of a jack-in-the-box.
00:22:12.340 He is.
00:22:13.640 I don't, I don't want to offend jack-in-the-box fans out there.
00:22:16.200 I think their burgers actually taste better than Burger King.
00:22:18.220 But he's not, he's not a full king, Joe Biden.
00:22:20.940 He is a marionette.
00:22:23.020 He is just a sort of cloudy-minded marionette.
00:22:26.740 The strings are being pulled broadly by the liberal establishment.
00:22:29.900 So he, sadly, is just a jack-in-the-box.
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