Donald Trump likes to throw shade at other presidents. Here's how he does it

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

93% : "Their administration makes Jimmy Carter's administration look absolutely brilliant," Trump said Wednesday in Green Bay, Wis.One president Trump has rarely if ever mentioned: Grover Cleveland, the only president in U.S. history who lost his re-election bid and then came back four years later in 1892 to win the White House again.
87% : "On the Joe Rogan podcast last week, Trump contrasted Lincoln with a historic figure he has often praised, Confederate military leader Robert E. Lee, citing Lee's success on the battlefield.
69% : During an issues forum in Pennsylvania last week, Trump repeated a frequent story claiming that unnamed border union officials said they endorsed him for a second term because he was "the greatest president overall that we've ever had.
63% : Trump does tend to praise his predecessors to promote his own agenda.
59% : They are also very much in character for Trump, who proclaims himself an expert in fields ranging from business deals to foreign diplomacy, and has often said, "I've been right about everything.
50% : "He was a very big deporter," Trump said during the forum in Drexel Hill, Pa.As for Reagan, Trump named his political movement after a Gipper slogan: Let's Make America Great Again.
47% : Some past presidents do pass muster with Trump.
47% : Trump said.
45% : At MAGA rallies in recent days, Trump begins with a question that Reagan made famous during his successful 1980 presidential campaign: Are you better off now than you were four years ago?To be sure, Trump has also praised Lincoln, even as he makes occasional unflattering comments about the revered 16th president, regarding the Civil War.
43% : ""I said, 'does that include Abe Lincoln?,'" Trump told supporters.
38% : "Lincoln had the yips ... as the golfers would say," Trump said.
33% : In the general election of 2016, Trump went after President Barack Obama as a way to challenge heir apparent and Democratic nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton.
28% : Of course, the less popular past presidents - like Republican Richard Nixon - get no boost from Trump.
27% : Trump, who is the only president to be impeached twice and also criminally indicted, in four separate cases, has also lauded Jackson for being the nation's most politically attacked chief executive - with one exception.
25% : "Political analysts and historians - none of whom rank Trump anywhere near the top of presidential rankings - said he is driven to criticize and second-guess others via a combination of ego, arrogance, and self-esteem issues.
25% : During a recent rally in Duluth, Ga., Trump said he sometimes wants to tape every conversation he has, but "the problem is then I start thinking about: Richard Nixon did that . . .
19% : "Trump has also praised George Washington, but lumped him in with Lincoln in an interview with the authors of the 2021 book "I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year.
18% : ""I think it would be hard if George Washington came back from the dead and he chose Abraham Lincoln as his vice president," Trump said regarding the pre-COVID phase of his presidency.
16% : Trump, never a member of the so-called "President's Club," has changed the rules in his campaign against Vice President Kamala Harris (and, before her, incumbent President Joe Biden).
14% : "Nobody's been treated like Trump in terms of badly," Trump told Newsmax in March.
13% : During a "Fox & Friends" interview this month, Trump repeated that he doesn't understand why Lincoln didn't "settle" the dispute with the Confederate states before the war broke out.
12% : Biden routinely describes Trump as a threat to democracy, citing his role in the insurrection attempt of Jan. 6, 2021, and efforts to undermine the election system in general.
12% : "He's become unhinged," Biden said during an October campaign event for Harris.Obama mocks Trump at every campaign stop, from his obsession with crowd sizes to his tweeting.
6% : When he sought the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, Trump criticized Republican President George W. Bush over the Iraq war and the financial crisis of 2007-08.
6% : "Because when you're 78, you're a lot more worried about it being too cold than being too hot," Clinton said.Political scientist Lara Brown, author of "Amateur Hour: Presidential Character and the Question of Leadership," said most scholars view Trump as perhaps the worst president in history.
2% : "President Jimmy Carter is also frequently a target for Trump, who backhands the Georgia Democrat who recently turned 100 years old as a way to attack Biden and Harris.
2% : Trump still attacks Obama - "a real jerk" - as his predecessor campaigns for Harris across the country.
2% : Of course, Trump has hammered Biden because he was running against him before the incumbent withdrew in July; he still attacks Biden as a way to get at Harris.
2% : Former President Bill Clinton, married to Hillary Clinton, also mocked Trump at an a recent rally in Durham, N.C., over his threats to go after political opponents.

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