I have a theory that recessions can cause the existing president to be viewed unfavorably. I’m kind of speculating that COVID-19 will be detrimental to Trump’s approval rating, especially because he’s a republican and republicans aren’t known for being generous in unemployment benefits or state subsidies, and the current virus is causing an increase in applications for unemployment benefits in the US as well as companies asking for subsidies to help them pay inactive workers. I would like to compare Hoover and Trump since their terms are both ending on a huge economic recession, but I want to make sure that they are in similar comparable situations. Obviously, Trump is being slandered by the media for the current recession even though it’s largely out of his control, was Hoover slandered by the media for the Great Depression like trump currently?
This submission has been removed because it is soapboxing or moralizing: it has the effect of promoting an opinion on contemporary politics or social issues at the expense of historical integrity. There are certainly historical topics that relate to contemporary issues and it is possible for legitimate interpretations that differ from each other to come out of looking at the past through differing political lenses. However, we will remove questions that put a deliberate slant on their subject or solicit answers that align with a specific pre-existing view.
(You may not be aware of this, but "slander" is a legal term of art that is a civil wrong [a tort] -- it does not mean "criticism").