Triple-check my persona

[sovay]

spatch, reading a tweet from the White House: "'The United States and Italy are bound together by a shared cultural and political heritage dating back thousands of years to Ancient Rome.'"

Me, a classicist: "Oh! That'd be the fascism!"

Comments

[starlady]

Trump is Commodus or Caligula, hands down. But also, YIKES

[sovay]

Trump is Commodus or Caligula, hands down.

I lean heavily Commodus, but wouldn't really fight anyone who wanted to argue that we've entered horse-consul territory. I mean, he gave his kids jobs.

But also, YIKES

Yeah!

[cynthia1960]

I think we're being too hard on Commodus/Nero/Caligula here

[rachelmanija]

Agreed. It's hard to find a good real-life parallel. The other person I like to compare him to is Joffrey Baratheon.