Is Trump Caesar or Nixon?
The Rest Is History
Goalhanger
4.6 • 18.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Recorded hours after Joe Biden was named President of the United States, we ask if Donald Trump is a modern day Caesar, willing to do anything to stay in power? Or is Trump the natural successor to the disgraced Richard Nixon? Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook draw parallels between the modern White House, the 1970s and ancient Rome.
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Produced by Jack Davenport
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| 1:41.6 | Hello and welcome to this special edition of The Rest is History. |
| 1:45.2 | This Sunday morning, the American presidential election has reached its climax and last night |
| 1:50.3 | among considerable recrimination from Donald Trump. Joe Biden was declared the 46th president |
| 1:56.0 | of the United States of America. He was an election for the very soul of modern America with |
| 2:00.8 | Trump fighting tooth and nail to cling onto power. So is this unheard of who does Trump think he is? |
| 2:06.5 | Is he a modern day Julius Caesar or an updated and slightly shop-soiled Richard Nixon? Ancient or modern? |
| 2:14.2 | Well, the joke is, of course, that Trump brought the news that Biden had been elected while he |
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