Jul 1, 2024 · The primary thing Donald Trump and Thomas Jefferson have in common is that neither would likely become president had more about their personal lives become known.

Oct 18, 2018 · To Jefferson, the Bill of Rights, with the First Amendment’s guarantee against “abridging freedom of speech, or of the press,” was a foundation of our democracy. President Trump’s characterization of the media as “enemies of the people” is at war with that conception – and the research shows that the Trump assault is having a ...

Oct 18, 2018 · Americans are overwhelmingly committed to a free press and hostile to government restrictions, a new poll finds. But the country is divided on the meaning of President Trump’s attacks on the...

Jan 21, 2025 · Trump replaced a rug and ditched a bust of Robert F. Kennedy. It’s only been a day since Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States, and already a lot has changed. But ...

Oct 11, 2018 · “No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free no one ever will,” wrote Thomas Jefferson to George Washington. It is a powerful description of press freedom and the crucial role of the press in a democracy.

Dec 30, 2020 · Donald Trump's presidency has revealed the surprising number of Americans who align with the racist side of Thomas Jefferson's dual legacy.

Sep 12, 2016 · And why Thomas Jefferson called on the British imperial government not “to exclude us from going to other markets.” Freedom of commerce, accompanied by state support for the development of new...

Feb 18, 2017 · During his time as U.S. minister to France, Thomas Jefferson penned a letter to a statesman from Virginia, waxing poetic about the importance of a free press.

Sep 1, 2023 · WASHINGTON—In 1801, after the young nation’s fourth election, Vice President Thomas Jefferson faced a choice in his constitutional role to certify the results: He could reject Georgia’s tally...

Thomas Jefferson, a spokesman for democracy, was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and the third President of the United States (1801–1809). ... Donald J. Trump Joseph R. Biden Jr. The biography for President Jefferson and past presidents is courtesy of the White House Historical ...