And right on cue, as the Wuhan Virus spreads across the United States, Trump suggests he is a "wartime president."

We can all thank Honest Abe, Woodrow Wilson, and King Franklin for this nonsense.

At least in the case of Lincoln and Wilson, the United States was engaged in an actual war, but when FDR first claimed to be a wartime president, he was fighting a war against the economy.

The United States lost.

Roosevelt thought he was not only the Commander in Chief of the armed forces when called into actual service, but the Gardener in Chief, the Labor Boos in Chief, the Factory Director in Chief, and the Banker in Chief.