Presidential historian foresees "disastrous end" for Donald Trump

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50. That's a stretch

Grover Cleveland was like Trump?

As mayor of Buffalo in 1881 and governor of New York in 1882, he closely cooperated with state assembly minority leader Theodore Roosevelt to pass reform measures.

He was opposed to tariffs.

He won praise for honesty, self-reliance, integrity, and commitment to the principles of classical liberalism.

He signed the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 which made the railroad industry the first industry subject to federal regulation by a regulatory body.

He opposed the push to annex Hawaii, launched an investigation into the 1893 coup against Queen Liliʻuokalani, and called for her to be restored.

After leaving the White House, Cleveland served as a trustee of Princeton University and continued to voice his political views. Cleveland joined the American Anti-Imperialist League in protest of the 1898 Spanish-American War.

Cleveland was not a great president by any meas, and his support for the Dawes Act and suppression of the Pullman strike were egregious. But the comparison to Trump strikes me as an historian looking for ways to advance themselves as a popular media figure similar to the ridiculous "Team of Rivals" comparisons between Obama and Lincoln made by Doris Kearns Goodwin.