Jackson Jambalaya

Teddy Roosevelt and Trump would be pals. Wow. Just. Wow.

Puke. Fox News is an entertainment channel, not a legitimate news channel.

Self awareness is significantly lacking amongst certain fanbois and gurls.....

"What we have here is an intergalactic freak show," Kennedy said after leaving a closed-door meeting with the Senate Republican Conference. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/07/the-senate-hopes-for-a-weekend-shutdown-miracle-00643604?utm

Oh, this piece is a mess, both in logic and in writing. Let’s dismantle it layer by layer.

The writer tries to compare Teddy Roosevelt, a disciplined, intellectual reformer, with Donald Trump, a grievance-fueled demagogue whose understanding of policy couldn’t fill one of Roosevelt’s hunting journals. TR read thousands of books in multiple languages, founded national parks, broke up monopolies, and built the Panama Canal. Trump tried to buy Greenland and threw paper towels at hurricane victims. The idea that they’d be “friends and allies” is like saying Shakespeare and Kid Rock would co-write a sonnet.

Claiming both men had a “passion for the people” is laughable. Roosevelt literally took on corporate monopolies and political machines that exploited workers. Trump was the corporate machine, a man whose “brand” was gold-plated excess, wage theft lawsuits, and tax dodging. Roosevelt fought to regulate the kind of corruption Trump embodies. Roosevelt would’ve regarded Trump the way he regarded the robber barons, with contempt.

This piece treats Roosevelt’s era like a vague allegory for the present, but it erases all context. Roosevelt was a progressive Republican, not a populist showman. He created the Department of Commerce and Labor, enforced anti-trust laws, and believed in environmental stewardship. Trump gutted the EPA, deregulated everything in sight, and turned public lands into oil leases. If Roosevelt were alive, he’d use his “big stick” on Trump’s backside.

The writer lifts Roosevelt’s warnings about political hypocrisy and somehow pretends they describe everyone except Trump, who was impeached twice, whose administration was a revolving door of indictments, and whose “win-win” diplomacy literally included North Korea love letters and a trade war with China that hurt American farmers. Roosevelt said Americans “learn only from catastrophes.” This writer somehow misses that Trump was the catastrophe.

Roosevelt’s “preparedness” was grounded in realism and strategy. Trump’s foreign policy was cosplay, chest-thumping tweets followed by photo ops. Roosevelt sent the Great White Fleet to demonstrate naval power. Trump canceled war games because Kim Jong-un flattered him. These are not parallel lines; they’re opposite ends of the maturity spectrum.

The “Democrats shut down government to beat Trump” line is pure partisan whining. Every administration has faced shutdowns, and Trump himself literally said, “I am proud to shut down the government” in 2018. So much for revisionist history, the writer’s pretending the arsonist was actually the firefighter.

Even aside from its ideological bankruptcy, the writing is sloppy. Random capitalization (“Spirit – Teddy Roosevelt and the Birth of a Superpower”) that reads like a chain email from 2009. Repetition and word bloat (“among many other endeavors” … “powerful picture” … “powerful leaders”). The author keeps inserting clichés like “bless their hearts,” as if homespun charm can cover for incoherence.

The author quotes Roosevelt railing against politicians who “further the interests of the political parties rather than the interests of the people” and then spends the rest of the column drooling partisan nonsense to defend the single most self-serving president in modern history.

This isn’t journalism; it’s fan fiction with a Fox News subscription. It hijacks a complex historical figure to justify modern tribal politics and betrays both history and logic in the process. If Teddy Roosevelt were alive to read this, he’d throw his copy of The Rough Riders through the nearest window and mutter, “Good God, what has become of my party?”

Signed Womp Womp

D. L. Delulu

Is DL heavily into the face bronzer use yet?

IF NOT, WHY NOT?!??!

12:32 Womp is obviously proud of his TDS. One missed commonality between Teddy and Trump is despite wounding, both narrowly escaped assassination and reacted to the effort with bravado.

1232
Great post

TDS is a terrible thing to witness

Dear Womp Womp, you covered a lot of ground while attacking a writer with much more nerve than you have. I have yet to see your article posted on this website. I would dearly love to exam your writing style.

Why you felt the need to white knight for Mr Roosevelt is bewildering. There have been many writers that have sung his praises, over the years.

At this point in time, Mr Trump has a record that Mr Roosevelt can't match. Mr Roosevelt, knowingly, and willingly, guided this country in to a world war. Mr Trump, much to his credit, has ended several wars. No amount of white knighting will change those to facts.