We matched these Donald Trump quotes with past presidents

The 2016 presidential election is about a week away, and Donald Trump has been in the news a lot as a result – usually because of the ridiculous things he says.

But how does some of his Conservative rhetoric match up to previous presidents?

George Washington

“Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who make excuses.”– Washington

“I had a problem with a microphone that didn’t work…My microphone was terrible. I wonder was it set up that way on purpose. My microphone in the room, they couldn’t hear me, you know, it was going on and off.”– Trump

“The Nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred…is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity…of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.”– Washington

“We can’t continue to allow China to rape our country, and that’s what they’re doing.”– Trump

“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension…is itself a frightful despotism.”– Washington

“I have joined the political arena so that the powerful can no longer beat up on people that cannot defend themselves. Nobody knows the system better than me, which is why I alone can fix it. I have seen firsthand how the system is rigged against our citizens…”– Trump

Abraham Lincoln

“We never should, and I am sure, never shall be niggard of gratitude and benefaction to the soldiers who have endured toil, privations and wounds, that the nation may live.”– Lincoln

“[John McCain’s] not a war hero. He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.”– Trump

“Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.” – Lincoln

“And I’m telling you, November 8, we’d better be careful, because that election is going to be rigged.” – Trump

Teddy Roosevelt

“Nothing in this world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, and difficulty”– Roosevelt

“My whole life really has been a ‘no’ and I fought through it. It has not been easy for me, it has not been easy for me. And you know I started off in Brooklyn, my father gave me a small loan of a million dollars.”– Trump

“I cannot consent to take the position that the door of hope – the door of opportunity – is to be shut upon any man, no matter how worthy, purely upon the grounds of race or color. Such as attitude would, according to my convictions, be fundamentally wrong.”– Roosevelt

“[Responding to a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States] Until we are able to determine and understand this problem and the dangerous threat it poses, our country cannot be the victims of horrendous attacks by people that believe only in Jihad, and have no sense of reason or respect for human life.”– Trump

Dwight Eisenhower

“War is mankind’s most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.”– Eisenhower

“I would bomb the shit out of [ISIS]. I would just bomb those suckers. That’s right. I’d blow up the pipes…I’d blow up every single inch. There would be nothing left.”– Trump

Ronald Reagan

“Ratification of the Convention [Against Torture] by the United States will clearly express United States opposition to torture, an abhorrent practice unfortunately prevalent in the world today.”– Reagan

“I would bring back waterboarding and I’d bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding.”– Trump

George H.W. Bush

“There is important work to be done and America must always come first. So we will get behind this new president and wish him – wish him well.”– Bush

“I would like to promise and pledge to all of my voters and supporters and to all of the people of the United States that I will totally accept the results of this great and historic presidential election, if I win.”– Trump