Bill Clinton’s pants-free presidency may have foreshadowed the Donald Trump presidency.
The Washington Post reported that Clinton and Trump, who had long been friends, chatted shortly before Trump announced his candidacy to run for the GOP nomination for president.
The Post interviewed four Trump allies and one Clinton associate who said Clinton urged Trump “to play a larger role in the Republican Party and offered his own views of the political landscape.”
Clinton and Trump shared a sense of narcissistic entitlement that gave them the freedom to cheat on the wives, in golf, and in most other things – or in Trump’s case, everything else.
Both had sex scandals while in the White House. They both played the victim.
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-04-18/what-donald-trump-and-bill-clinton-have-in-common
They both had abusive, awful father figures – Trump’s was his biological father, Clinton’s was his stepfather.
SEE FRED TRUMP, Sr.
Clinton and Trump are both inveterate liars – though, while Trump is a pathological liar, it was Clinton who was impeached in part for committing perjury.
https://guides.loc.gov/federal-impeachment/bill-clinton
Trump was impeached twice to Clinton’s once.
All other U.S. presidents were impeached a total of once.
The New Yorker, in an article about Trump, quoted writer P.G. Wodehouse who said that the best way to measure a man’s character was to play golf with them. Trump’s cheating in golf, the article said, became the subject of a full-length book, Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Donald Trump.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/donald-trump-the-serial-golf-cheat-in-the-white-house
Professional golfer John Daly, who has played golfer with both men, called Clinton the worse cheater.
https://popculture.com/sports/news/john-daly-says-bill-clinton-cheats-at-golf-not-donald-trump/
Trump remembered in an interview with Fox News that he and Clinton played golf together and when they finished went to the clubhouse where Clinton would go on for hours about politics.
“This is before I even thought in terms of politics for myself,” Trump said.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/donald-trump-dishes-past-friendship-bill-clinton
Bloomberg News columnist Eli Lake say that one could take comparisons between Clinton and Trump only so far.
“Clinton was a wonk who mastered the details of policy. Trump often makes policy on the fly, surprising even his cabinet,” Lake said.
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-04-18/what-donald-trump-and-bill-clinton-have-in-common
Clinton, while no doubt flawed, is intelligent.
Trump, who is no doubt flawed, has the attention span and intelligence of a 6-year-old – and not a particularly smart 6-year-old.
As it turned out, of course, Trump ran against Bill Clinton’s wife, Hillary, in the 2016 Presidential Election.
When Democrats attacked Trump’s character – or lack thereof – Republicans brought up Bill Clinton. When Trump was quoted in the infamous Access Hollywood tape about grabbing women by their privates, he responded to the outrage by saying, “’Bill Clinton has said far worse to me on the golf course.’”
If indeed Bill Clinton helped convince Trump to run for president, it is unlikely that Clinton knew at the time Trump would become the GOP’s nominee in the president election and would run against Hillary Clinton.
If so, this would represent an act of betrayal on Bill Clinton’s part toward his wife.
Not that this has never happened before.
