America’s greatest leaders have all had their critics — even Lincoln

Never astatine a nonaccomplishment for words

Despite my past week’s birthday, I petition nary nationalist vacation successful my honor. I mean, I recognize cipher did thing for Martin Van Buren.

But I cognize Amelia Earhart grabbed July 24 and an aged precocious schoolhouse fellow erstwhile mentioned maine connected Dead End Day.

Honorable VIPs are creeping retired similar pizza rats successful Midtown. June 7’s doing inaugural LGBTQ+ solemnisation from the Critics Choice Association.

Honorees successful LA’s Century Plaza include Nathan Lane and George Takei.

So, me, temporarily, it’s acknowledgment to Channel 5’s Rosanna Scotto, Channel 1’s Jamie Stelter, the NY Post, the Internet, ratty Page Six’s Ian Mohr whose scoops I genuinely merit and others that celebrated my birthday. I’m appreciative.

Follow the leader

Even George Washington — accused of wanting to go king — got expectorated on.

Thomas Jefferson’s predetermination included “John Adams is simply a blind, bald, crippled, toothless man. A hideous hermaphroditical quality with neither the unit and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.”

Adams peed back: “Jefferson. Mean-spirited, low-lived” — those were his compliments.

1828, John Quincy Adams charged bigamy and adultery against Andrew Jackson. Also called him a murderer.

Jackson past accused Adams of pimping a miss to the czar. Of Russia. (Like wherever other they got a czar?)

1860, Stephen Douglas: “Drunkard Lincoln could ruin much liquor than each the boys successful municipality together.”

Harper’s Magazine listed Abe’s pursuing insults: “Filthy storyteller, Ignoramus Abe, Despot, Old scoundrel, perjurer, liar, robber, thief, swindler, braggart, tyrant, buffoon, fiend, usurper, butcher, monster, land-pirate.”

1876, Dems said Rutherford B. Hayes had a drunken acceptable of insanity. (Maybe to get escaped of the sanction Rutherford.)

Grover Cleveland opponents claimed helium fathered and abandoned an “illegitimate child.”

So: Those who came to my day enactment praiseless and giftless, hide it. Just cognize your names person been noted. In ink.

‘Suspicious Minds’ games

Deborah Presley’s endless missive to maine calls maine “bamboozled by spiritual seer John Cohen” (misspelled — it’s Cohan) who says helium nary longer takes her calls — and says he’ll instrumentality a prevarication detector test. All of which I reported.

Deborah: “I’m Elvis’ calved child. I met Cohan. Called him twice. Says her p.r. man Ed Lozzi (her earlier substance misspelled it) knew him who’d said helium was erstwhile Elvis’ psychic. Lozzi informed John astir my book. I called him. We discussed things. I gave him backstage conversations including Priscilla’s connection that I mean thing to her. OLD news!!! Last period my existent gathering with Priscilla was uplifting. She allowed maine to participate her unafraid country wherever I presented her with the book.”

She says I falsely reported Cohan’s mendacious words that my publication can’t beryllium recovered successful bookstores.

She says, “Yes it can. Books are sold done Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Walmart, and tin beryllium ordered from immoderate lasting publication store. I present person a question representation and eight-part TV bid movie offer.”

OK. Good. A blessing connected her head. Mazel tov. Mazel tov.

Heard astatine the White House:

“Is my alert open?”

“No.”

“Well, it should be. I’m peeing.”