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17th Roman Emperor (180–192)

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Jan 22, 2026

donald trump ancient rome

has invoked both rhetorically—saying U.S. and share cultural and political roots going “back thousands of years, to Ancient Rome” —and been repeatedly compared by journalists and scholars to and the R...

Jan 2, 2026

Has Donald Trump been compared to any Roman Emperors, and if so, which ones?

Donald Trump has repeatedly been compared to a range of Roman figures—most commonly Nero, Caligula and Julius Caesar, but also Augustus, Claudius, Caracalla, Tiberius and even Commodus—by journalists,...