"But Trump seems to have little if any respect for the office, demonstrated over and over again in his tweets. Particularly repellent is Trump's endless vilification of whoever offends him at the moment. From Mexicans, to the disabled, to the family of a fallen Muslim soldier, to Democratic members of Congress, Trump's spewing of hate, along with his endless mockery of those who merely disagree with him, slimes not just him but the presidency. As for his attacks on Hillary Clinton, there has not been a single previous president who relentlessly and personally attacked his opponent in the election that brought him to the presidency. Just suggesting the idea of President Eisenhower name-calling Adlai Stevenson or President Kennedy publicly obsessing on Richard Nixon or, President Nixon endlessly reviling Hubert Humphrey, is as absurd as is imagining any previous president constantly tweeting. No, they didn't fail to tweet only because the technology didn't exist. They would not have imagined setting U.S. policy in 280 character comic book word balloons."
M. J. Rosenberg at History News Network laments that "Donald Trump cheapens the whole idea of the presidency."
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