• lledrtx@lemmy.world
    31·
    7 months ago

    We’ve had 45 presidents no? Is he leaving out 2 or did he say this during the 43rd? If he is leaving out, who are the 2 based ones?

      • rockSlayer@lemmy.world
        17·
        7 months ago

        So what you’re telling me is that time is linear? Let me just ask my buddy Gilgamesh real quick for his thoughts

        • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
          3·
          7 months ago

          Ironically, Gilgamesh’s battle against mortality would have been for naught had he known of the possibility of our limitless overlapping of spacetime capability.

      • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.caEnglish
        7·
        7 months ago

        Mitch: every quote is from the past. Have a quote from the future? Wait, let me see that.

    • Nelots@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      Considering he says 43 consecutively, that would imply either the first two or last two were not Christians. We know that’s not the case, so it’s safe to assume it’s just a quote from before Trump became president.

      Edit: though I’m pretty sure Thomas Jefferson was famously not a Christian, so it isn’t true regardless.

    • Wilzax@lemmy.world
      24·
      7 months ago

      Obama is not a practicing Christian, and he was the 44th presidency. But Grover Cleveland was counted as 2 separate presidencies, so only 42 people before Obama were president of the United States. But if “43 of them” is referring to presidencies and not individuals, it holds.

      Trump and Biden also both identify as Christians too, bringing the total to 45 presidencies out of 46, and 44 out of 45 people who have been president of the United States.

      And to be especially nitpicky, a few early presidents are speculated to have been atheists or deists, not Christians.