How the Trump-Caesar Comparison Collapsed

In April, as the global economy targeted by US President Donald Trump’s tariff, the leader of the Senate Minority Chuck Schumer was published on X, “Nero is invalid. Trump Golf.” Shomer joined a long history of Trump comparison with the ancient Romans. Trump is August that focuses on the power of the Republic in one authoritarian person, Kaligla is cruel and volatile, demagog in the Tipreyus Jersus or Publius Clodius Pulcher.
But most of the time, it is compared to Julius Caesar, who drove his soldiers on 49 BC through Robicon, and the river represents the border between the Csalbin Gaal province and the Rome -controlled area. In bringing the Legion via Rubicon, Caesar broke the laws that limit his authority. According to the Roman historian Sotonius, when Caesar crossed, he announced, “The template was thrown.” After five years of civil war, a dictator was announced for life in 44 BC and the famous assassination shortly after.
In April, with the benefit of the global economy From the tariff of US President Donald Trump, the leader of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, published X, “Nero is invalid. Trump Golf.” Shomer joined a long history of Trump comparison with the ancient Romans. Trump is August that focuses on the power of the Republic in one authoritarian person, Kaligla is cruel and volatile, demagog in the Tipreyus Jersus or Publius Clodius Pulcher.
But most of the time, it is compared to Julius Caesar, who drove his soldiers on 49 BC through Robicon, and the river represents the border between the Csalbin Gaal province and the Rome -controlled area. In bringing the Legion via Rubicon, Caesar broke the laws that limit his authority. According to the Roman historian Sotonius, when Caesar crossed, he announced, “The template was thrown.” After five years of civil war, a dictator was announced for life in 44 BC and the famous assassination shortly after.
The similarities between Caesar and Trump have proven attractive to the point that the comparison had collapsed under its weight and reasoned itself. Caesar was now compared to Trump, with William Shakespeare in 2017 Julius Caesar A BBC 2023 documentary series on Caesar’s dictatorship is explicitly mixed with the two people.
We do not know exact history when Caesar Rubicon crossed, and we do not know exactly where. But Rubiconz Trump was many, as indicated by the daughter of the president’s sister and psychologist, as indicated by the daughter of the president’s sister. Each few weeks, critics announce that Trump has crossed some Rubicon or others. The references are so repeated that just a few days after Shomer’s participation that compared Trump with Nero, historian Michelle Rene Salzman published an enthusiastic article in Zócalo Public Square Entitled “Stop comparing the Trump law to Caesar Rubicon’s crossing.”
Rubicon metaphor is not limited to Trump’s critics. Riot riot in January 6, 2021, signs with the famous #crosserubicon retail brand, which hints of a Rubicon speech in the extreme right -wing areas that I describe in my book 2018, Not all white men are dead. In 2022, Newt Jingrich was explored in Newsweek Whether the FBI raid on Mar-A-Laggo the moment of Rubicon, and in 2024, Washington Times An editorial entitled “Democrats crossed Rubicon by Trump’s rule.”
Salzman’s criticism of Rubicon borrowing is that he does not go far. She says that Caesar wanted to maintain mainly on the Roman political system with himself: “When Caesar Rubicon crossed, his goal was specific and limited.
Salzman, Trump’s ambitions, writes, much wider: “Unlike Caesar’s Limited goals in 49 BC, Trump wants to make a widespread change in our republic-move everything for decades of foreign policy and form a federal agency legally for medical research, education, and law.”
It is not difficult to dismantle the comparison between Trump and Kassar, if you want it.
Both were populist, but Trump is also a president who is historically unpopular, as his popularity ranked 100 days in 80 years. On the contrary, Caesar had a wide base of support as a generous sponsor and a famous general. Both were very rich, but Caesar was well known with a wonderful military strategy and an educational man, who was respected even by his fellow polymes such as Xheron, who were permeating his messages to Caesar with fun references to Greek literature. (Caesar has truly said, to cross, “Leave He dies, throwing, “Quote from the Greek comedian Minander.)
But it seems that such a restriction, ultimately, exceeds this point. Of course, Trump is completely like a dictator of a completely different political system for more than 2000 years (even if they are both conscious about his thin hair). The attempt to predict what will happen after that by looking at ancient Rome is a concept exercise, but it does not make sense.
The historian Ryanon Gareth Jones also argues in her latest book All roads lead to RomeThere is a long history rich in empires that define itself in conversation with Rome and the use of Rome as a reduction, a way to express the imperial power. The meaning of Rome is, apparently, in the eye of the beholder.
What do all these Rubicon comparisons reach? It seems that commentators want to announce that this moment, this procedure, this event is the point of no return, heralds a big change. They may be right, although historical events are often mysterious for those who live through them. Perhaps, for the Romans in the 1940s, Caesar’s crossing of Rubicon was also just a series of events that felt completely visualized, as all agreed rules and rules were resolved.
Perhaps they felt the same as the papers as we do, and the search for a historical comparison to help them understand their own times, and to find a precedent for what it has never been unparalleled. According to the Greek historian Polepius, when the Romanian General Skipio looked at the ruins of Carthage invaded, he quoted a line from Homer about the inevitability of Troy’s fall; Perhaps my contemporaries did something similar.
For me, these comparisons speak that the paralyzed is not feasible but the current moment in conversation with the classic past. As with most comparisons, the Trump and Kassar comparison ultimately tells you about the person who compares more than any of the leaders concerned. The borrowing of Rubicon is so useful that, although it may be important for some people, it goes beyond that it is meaningful as a way to explain the feeling of dear democratic standards that are crossed on a daily basis.
Rubicon metaphysics lesson may be: when used by the left, it indicates discomfort in Trump’s behavior. When used by the right, they point out a documented willingness to take collective action, even if it is related to violence. Perhaps rioters who hold history of history lessons are better than critics and historians. Only the time will be told.
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2025-06-30 12:07:00