When George W. Bush wrote an essay this year about another president named George, he avoided mentioning the one named Donald.

So did Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. The three ex-presidents joined a roster of historians and authors in contributing to the In Pursuit project, a 250th-anniversary series that had each writer produce an essay about a president or first lady.

Though the project was explicitly designed to transcend today’s politics, some of its essays nevertheless reflect anxieties that are flaring in the era of President Donald Trump over the use of power, the health of the democracy and the integrity of the presidency.

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    29 days ago

    Omg! Can you imagine if Trump were asked to write an essay?!?! The bestest essay ever they say. What a fucking dingdong.

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      29 days ago

      Only if they videoed him doing it. I wouldn’t accept it any other way.

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      29 days ago

      He’d just doze off then get angry and yell “I don’t need to do this”. Cue the conservative media proclaiming that it’s an attack strategy against him