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President John F. Kennedy - Assassinated in 1963, Dallas, Texas. His brother RFK would follow in 1968

Who are the most popular and unpopular United States presidents?

Who are the best known, most loved and most hated world leaders from the USA. And how many have been assassinated, or the subject of such attempts. The most famous of which must surely be a toss up between Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy in 1963.

Then, who is the best looking, most charismatic, handsome and sexiest, to garner voter appeal. We'd vote for Arnold Schwarzenegger in a flash, and he did make it to Governor of California. Probably one of the most charismatic Presidents was Barack Obama, he could talk the hind leg off a Donkey. Why Henry Cavill does not run for President, beats us. He'd do well, so long as he joins the right party and their politics work. And wears body armour.

Alternatively, politicians could start telling the truth. It should be law that politicians who lie will be prosecuted for fraud. How about lie detectors live during political rallies. So the public can see if they are telling the truth when asked certain baseline questions. It might save a few bullets.

Donald takes a bullet for his beliefs. Will he become the 47th US President against all odds?

1 Donald Trump 99% 47%
2 Barack Obama 98% 56%
3 Abraham Lincoln 98% 82% (most loved)
4 George W. Bush 97% 42% (joint first least loved)
5 George Washington 97% 74% (2nd most loved)
6 Bill Clinton 97% 49%
7 Joe Biden 97% 48%
8 Ronald Reagan 96% 56%
9 George H. W. Bush 96% 43% (joint second least loved)
10 John F. Kennedy 96% 73% (3rd most loved)
11 Franklin D. Roosevelt 95% 62%
12 Thomas Jefferson 95% 65%
13 Theodore Roosevelt 94% 67% (4th most loved)
14 Richard Nixon 94% 42% (joint first least loved)
15 Ulysses S. Grant 93% 58%
16 Herbert Hoover 93% 44%
17 John Adams 92% 61%
18 Andrew Jackson 92% 46%
19 Jimmy Carter 92% 60%
20 Andrew Johnson 91% 43% (joint second least loved)

Former US President Donald Trump, running again in 2024

Four American Presidents have been assassinated so far, with two more shot. The electorate voting with a rifle or pistol. Maybe. Except the shooting of Ronald Reagan was due to the shooter, John Warnock Hinckley Jr., being infatuated with the actress Jodie Foster.

In 1968 Senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot at the Ambassador Hotel, after being shot in 1968. Like his brothers John F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy, he was a prominent member of the Democratic Party and is an icon of modern American liberalism. He was assassinated as he was running for president, much the same as Donald Trump being shot in 2024.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has also been targeted, and his nemesis Volodymyr Zelenskyy. As was Sir Winston Churchill, and Adolf Hitler in World War Two.

Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) shot dead in 1968, JFK's brother.

In many countries citizens have been far from satisfied with the lackluster performances of their elected leaders. The latest being the landslide victory of the British Labour party ousting the incompetent Conservative self-servers. According to many media reports. In the UK there is no right to bear arms. Meaning firearms are harder to source. Leaving the discontented with rotten eggs, or in days of old, bows and arrows (Robin Hood). Even so, police in the United Kingdom have armed response units. One of which shot a Brazilian student, Jean Charles de Menezes in 2005, in London, and another shot James Ashley while he was naked in St Leonards, Sussex in 1998.

With local authority corruption at high levels, the nation waits to see how Kier Starmer and his administration copes. Will a Prime Minister finally install an anti-corruption task force to tackle Council crime? For the avoidance of doubt, crimes committed by council officers and councillors. Including procurement fraud and public money wasted on vendettas, cover ups, etc.

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THE TELEGRAPH 15 JULY 2024 - WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF TRUMP HAD BEEN ASSASSINATED?

“I’m supposed to be dead,” said Donald Trump, and it’s incredible how close he came. The bullet fired by Thomas Matthew Crooks from a roof in Pennsylvania grazed the former president’s ear. Video suggests he was saved by a head tilt seconds before.

America, warn pundits, was “one inch away from civil war”. Call this distasteful speculation if you wish, but it’s not hyperbolic. It summarises the mood on the ground and the popular memory of past catastrophes.

When people say “civil war”, they don’t mean the 1860s, when North vs South had alternative governments and armies of thousands, but rather the 1960s – when civil unrest was triggered by assassinations and armed extremists lurked in the shadows.
Riots in the wake of the shooting of Martin Luther King Jnr, in April 1968, left 43 dead, 3,500 injured and 27,000 arrested. Liberals demanded reform; conservatives, law and order.

Trump and Biden are old enough to remember those days, and their world-views are shaped by them. Mr Biden sees himself as the heir to Bobby Kennedy, himself assassinated in June 1968. Trump is likened to Richard Nixon.

Today, if either man were to die, or be killed, prior to their formal nomination at a convention, their delegates would be free to pick an alternative via a series of floor votes. Were tragedy to strike after the convention, the nominee would likely be chosen by party officials (with no guarantee that the vice presidential candidate would fill the gap).

The Democrats last held such a brokered convention in 1968, and it descended into a battle between protesters and cops. Institutional memory of that fateful year is precisely why the current Democrat elite is reluctant to drop Mr Biden, to take us back to an age of anarchic politics, mob rule and lone shooters.

Outside of a coal mine, the presidency has proved to be the most dangerous job in US history. Four presidents have been murdered; there were two attempts to kill Gerald Ford alone (heaven knows why). Though the culprits have often been unhinged – Reagan’s would-be assassin wanted to impress Jodie Foster – partisanship provides motive. Lincoln was shot by a confederate actor; William McKinley by an anarchist at a time when that movement was as lethal as al-Qaeda .

Conspiracy theories always follow.

Supporters of Huey Long, a Trump-like populist murdered by a man with a personal grudge in 1935, dubbed their opponents the “Assassination Party”.

The precise effect of political violence depends upon the psychology of society at the time it occurs. By 1981, America wanted to move on from the radicalism of ’68, and Congress became more determinedly collegial. Reagan, recovering in hospital, was visited by Tip O’Neill, the Democrat speaker of the House – and in the most extraordinary scene, Tip fell to his knees in prayer and kissed Ronald on the forehead – rivals, yes, but also friends.

In 2024, partisanship is back in style. Both sides believe the other threatens their liberty, or that they would use unconstitutional means to stay in power.

Violence percolates to the extremes. In 2011, Democrat Gabby Giffords was shot by a constituent; in 2017, Republican Steve Scalise was shot by a Bernie Sanders supporter at a baseball game. White supremacists marched at Charlottesville in 2017 and riots followed the murder of George Floyd in 2020. Then there was Jan 6 2021 and the storming of the Capitol.

Madness is stoked by disinformation: conspiracy theories around the Trump shooting now rival JFK or the Moon landings. Some say the Trump shooting was staged by the candidate himself. Others say the security was deliberately cut back to put him at risk – or the ability of the shooter to get so close indicates an inside job. Why, ask chauvinists, was he protected by a detail of women who looked overweight and unable to holster a gun?

A more compelling story is that the Democrats effectively put a target on Trump’s back by demonising him. “Joe Biden sent the orders,” Representative Mike Collins posted on X – although Trump has maligned his opponents plenty, too, and the political sympathies of the shooter remain unclear.

“Democrats and their allies in the media have recklessly stoked fears,” opined Senator Tim Scott. “Their inflammatory rhetoric puts lives at risk.” If what he says is true – and if Trump had been killed – it’s easy to see how some of his supporters would feel justified in turning to violence.

Without doubt, the most famous shooter to date. Lee Harvey Oswald shot JFK in 1963, in a moving car, in Dallas Texas.

Imagine a series of Jan 6-ers, a trail of sporadic mob violence targeting officials, journalists, election stations and perhaps the conventions. Again, it’s happened before. The 1995 Oklahoma bombing was carried out by a far-Right activist who believed the US government was at war with its own citizens. A revolutionary situation develops when people think the state is against them and cannot be changed through the ballot box, and the killing of a presidential candidate would, to those of extremist temperament, be final proof.

Oklahoma was inspired by the federal siege at a religious compound in Waco in 1993 – and Trump chose to hold a 2024 rally at Waco airport. He defended the January 6-ers and attacked the “abuses of power” that made this one of the most “corrupt, depraved chapters in all of American history”.

In short, Trump’s death would have pushed his country even further down a road it was already going. Many Americans hope that, having glimpsed over the cliff edge into disorder, people will now step back. 

The early signs are encouraging. Condemnation of the shooting and sympathy for the Trump family has been universal. Nikki Haley, his rival in the primaries, has agreed to speak at the Republican convention. And Trump revealed that though his original speech attacking Mr Biden was scheduled to be another “humdinger”, he has since rewritten it with a view to national reconciliation.

“It is a chance to bring the country together,” he said. “I was given that chance.”

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[LEFT] "We have gold because we cannot trust governments," President Herbert Hoover famously said in 1933 in his statement to Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Emergency Banking Act, forced all Americans to convert their gold coins, bullion, and certificates into U.S. dollars, to stop the outflow of gold reserves during the Great Depression. The writing was on the wall, but nobody could read it. [RIGHT] A $20 dollar bill showing the White House on the reverse

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