President Donald Trump responded to critics who say that he does not behave in a presidential manner, on Tuesday, July 25, by essentially saying that he could if he wanted to. One week after an ABC News/Washington Post poll found that 70% of Americans surveyed say they don't see how the President has proven to be presidential since his inauguration, he fired back, boasting that he could be more "presidential" than any man who's ever come into the office of Presidency, except for the nation's 16th Commander In Chief.
"With the exception of the late, great Abraham Lincoln, I can be more presidential than any president that’s ever held this office,” Trump told the crowd at a campaign rally he held in Youngstown, Ohio. President Trump had been mocking the assertion that it might be ideal to act "presidential" considering the manner in which Presidents have conducted themselves over the years. The statement, as ironic as it might seem, is consistent with the message he's delivered to his working-class base when he tells them that he won't be like any of the usual politicians who Americans have long expected would be fit to fill the office.
Trump is recalled as having made a similar claim earlier this month when he stated that with the exception of FDR, no President in history “has passed more legislation" or "done more things" than he and his administration has.
