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If there’s one former president whom Donald Trump has elevated during Trump 2.0, it’s Grover Cleveland.
The only other president to serve nonconsecutive terms (Cleveland was #22 and #24 to Trump’s #45 and #47), Cleveland is also, like Trump, associated with tariffs.
The actual history is a bit more complicated, as we’ve seen in previous reports on Cleveland, who is also notable for having married his much younger former ward — the daughter of his dead former law partner — in the White House.
The tariffs Cleveland is known for are something he pushed for as a congressman and later, as president, began to turn against.
Trump invoked another similarity at the White House recently when he noted that Cleveland is among the presidents to have called up US tr
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