Back in December, President Donald Trump professed to be “surprised” that his hand-picked board of trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts had suddenly voted to slap his name alongside Kennedy’s on the building.
Depending on what you call recent which really comes down to if living memory is a requirement or not I’d still put Wilson way up there as well. Motherfucker made the civil rights movement even more of a mess with his segregation of the feds and possibly may have been the reason the klan was reinvigorated with that shit he pulled with Birth of a Nation. Frankly the only thing he has over Trump is that he was actually a solid enough scholar, obviously had all the bullshit one would expect from a Southerner of the era but once you got passed that the he had a solid academic standard.
Depending on what you call recent which really comes down to if living memory is a requirement or not I’d still put Wilson way up there as well. Motherfucker made the civil rights movement even more of a mess with his segregation of the feds and possibly may have been the reason the klan was reinvigorated with that shit he pulled with Birth of a Nation. Frankly the only thing he has over Trump is that he was actually a solid enough scholar, obviously had all the bullshit one would expect from a Southerner of the era but once you got passed that the he had a solid academic standard.