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On Wednesday President Donald Trump complained he was being persecuted by the media.
Giving the commencement address at the graduation ceremony for the US Coast Guard Academy, Connecticut, the President remarked that he is treated appallingly by the fourth estate.
Mistaking the ceremony for a campaign rally, the President sought to inspire the graduates by citing the heroic example of himself.
Look at the way I've been treated lately. Especially by the media. No politician in history, and I say this with great surety [sic], has been treated worse, or more unfairly.
You can't let them get you down.
You can't let the critics and the nay sayers get in the way of your dreams.
On Thursday, he tweeted that this was a 'witch hunt'.
While fake news stories created by his opponents have been plentiful - like any mainstream politician these days - this seems like quite a big claim to make.
Particularly given all the historical examples of politicians treated more unfairly than President Trump - who is still only 118 days into his first term.
A lot of people made the obvious one - President John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in Dallas, 22 November 1963.
JFK was literally shot in the face https://t.co/oBE9YHhLWX— Nice Guy.eth 🔺🐸 (🗑,🗑) (@Nice Guy.eth 🔺🐸 (🗑,🗑)) 1495039019
Classy @realDonaldTrump. "No politician in history has been treated worse or more unfairly than me". Hear that JFK, with your half a head?— MATT KING (@MATT KING) 1495088538
JFK was literally shot dear jesus https://t.co/WKmtJj67Ob— Jack (@Jack) 1495038762
@FoxNews JFK got his brains blown out in front of his wife, on national TV. But yeah billionaire manchild, you've had it pretty rough.— ShaunInCO (@ShaunInCO) 1495072314
Nelson Mandela was another popular example of a leader treated more unfairly than President Trump.
Mandela was jailed by the South African government for 27 years.
Nelson Mandela, for example, was always on the golf course during his time on Robben Island. #trump https://t.co/neRvQ0Z6Et— Richard Sved (@Richard Sved) 1495093627
Historian Dan Snow had some niche cases.
Well, the Emperor Valerian was captured in battle, enslaved, used as a foot-stool, forced to drink molten gold and… https://t.co/bHZEhhoaCy— Dan Snow (@Dan Snow) 1495041911
After Oliver Cromwell died his corpse was exhumed, hung, drawn and quartered.— Dan Snow (@Dan Snow) 1495048914
Patrice Lumumba: Congo's 1st democratically elected Prime Minister. Faced Belgian sabotage, insurgency, a coup, was shot & dissolved in acid— Dan Snow (@Dan Snow) 1495049552
Edward II had his lover murdered, his wife invaded with her boyfriend, he was deposed & murdered, possibly with a red hot poker in the arse— Dan Snow (@Dan Snow) 1495050150
Empress Cixi was forced into a harem, denied her freedom, had her intimates killed, saw her country occupied by foreigners & was poisoned— Dan Snow (@Dan Snow) 1495051123
The President's choice of words probably has a reasonable explanation.
He wanted to get to a section about civic pride but then the eclipse happened so he ascended and his ego was in full view of the graduates.
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