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Two online sources have suggested that Donald Trump resembled either Nero or Commodus. Any chance that we could persuade him to take a \u201cWhich Roman Emperor Are You?\u201d quiz and tweet the results? Surely that would settle the matter. Then we could focus on the more serious issue: the fact that the current U. S. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":39681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[14569,1482,14568,2795,3045,8017,9846,13014],"class_list":["post-39680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-augustus","tag-buzzfeed","tag-commodus","tag-donald-trump","tag-emperor","tag-nero","tag-quiz","tag-tweet"],"yoast_head":"\n
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