# “Firsts” in this election **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [February 27, 2016, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firsts-in-this-election/747336 "2016-02-27T21:56:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![tullsterx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tullsterx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tullsterx)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firsts-in-this-election/747336/41 "2016-02-29T20:21:46Z")
I heard that Trump or Sanders would be the oldest President ever elected, so either one would be the first president elected over 69 years old. Reagan was 69 when first elected. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firsts-in-this-election/747336/42 "2016-02-29T20:29:06Z")
Come to think of it, wouldn’t Trump be the first twice-divorced President? ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firsts-in-this-election/747336/43 "2016-02-29T20:35:10Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Come to think of it, wouldn’t Trump be the first twice-divorced President? Reagan is the only President who had had a divorce before his Presidency, so Trump would certainly be the first double-divorcee. ---
**Author:** ![tullsterx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tullsterx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tullsterx)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firsts-in-this-election/747336/44 "2016-02-29T20:36:23Z")
Here are some other Trump firsts: First President that had his own board game. First President to have his own reality show. First President to own a professional football team (USFL)? First President to publish a New York Times best-seller. “[The Art of the Deal] reached #1 on the New York Times Bestseller list and held a position in the list for 51 weeks.” (WIKI) ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firsts-in-this-election/747336/45 "2016-02-29T20:44:28Z")
> [@tullsterx](#): > > First President to publish a New York Times best-seller. “[The Art of the Deal] reached #1 on the New York Times Bestseller list and held a position in the list for 51 weeks.” (WIKI) “The Audacity of Hope” was a #1 NYT bestseller in 2006. ETA: Eisenhower’s war memoirs also topped the list prior to his election. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firsts-in-this-election/747336/46 "2016-02-29T21:34:30Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > Anyway, I for one would be interested in how FDR and Washington’s wealth stacked up against Trump’s, after adjusting for inflation. Franklin Roosevelt wasn’t really all that wealthy. He was certainly well off but the Roosevelts were more of an “old money” family; they were mostly living off the wealth of past generations. Hoover was significantly wealthier than Roosevelt was. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firsts-in-this-election/747336/47 "2016-02-29T21:45:58Z")
Clinton would be the first president who has had sex with another president…that we know of… ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firsts-in-this-election/747336/48 "2016-02-29T21:47:12Z")
In the highly unlikely event that Martin O’Malley pulls off an upset win, he will be the first President born in Washington DC. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firsts-in-this-election/747336/49 "2016-02-29T21:54:09Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > If the American electorate Feels the Bern on election day, he will be the first president whose last name begins with S. So he would. Wonder how it worked out that way? It’s not like names beginning with S are rare. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firsts-in-this-election/747336/50 "2016-02-29T22:24:14Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > “The Audacity of Hope” was a #1 NYT bestseller in 2006. > > ETA: Eisenhower’s war memoirs also topped the list prior to his election. What about Profiles of Courage by JFK? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firsts-in-this-election/747336/51 "2016-02-29T22:33:27Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > I don’t think Trump is a billionaire. I think FDR and maybe Washington would be billionaires in today’s money. I doubt **any** of the American planter-gentry of Washington’s day were anything like billionaires in today’s terms. Maybe some were by John C. Calhoun’s day. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firsts-in-this-election/747336/52 "2016-02-29T22:36:47Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > So he would. Wonder how it worked out that way? It’s not like names beginning with S are rare. Here’s an interesting coincidence; no President has ever been an only child. And none of the current candidates are only children either so the string won’t be broken. ---
**Author:** ![Rodgers01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firsts-in-this-election/747336/53 "2016-02-29T22:51:08Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > If the American electorate Feels the Bern on election day, he will be the first president whose last name begins with S. > [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > AFAICT, he’d also be the first Anglican president. > [@Nema98](#): > > John Kasich would be the best hope to have the first president born in the 1950’s. These were all the most surprising to me. > [@Iggy](#): > > The birthplaces of Clinton, (Chicago, Il), Trump (Queens, NY), and Sanders (Brooklyn, NY) would not be so distinctive. As far as I can tell no previous president was from Brooklyn. (Maybe the “not distinctive” part is that there have certainly been other presidents from NYC?) ---
**Author:** ![Thing\_Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@Thing\_Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing_Fish)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firsts-in-this-election/747336/54 "2016-03-01T06:19:06Z")
Would a Trump-Sanders general election matchup be the first ever between two candidates from NYC? ---
**Author:** ![Thing\_Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@Thing\_Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing_Fish)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firsts-in-this-election/747336/55 "2016-03-01T06:21:38Z")
> [@tullsterx](#): > > Here are some other Trump firsts: > > First President that had his own board game. > > First President to have his own reality show. > > First President to own a professional football team (USFL)? > > First President to publish a New York Times best-seller. “[The Art of the Deal] reached #1 on the New York Times Bestseller list and held a position in the list for 51 weeks.” (WIKI) Obama’s _Audacity of Hope_ was also a #1 best seller. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firsts-in-this-election/747336/56 "2016-03-01T06:43:26Z")
> [@Rodgers01](#): > > As far as I can tell no previous president was from Brooklyn. (Maybe the “not distinctive” part is that there have certainly been other presidents from NYC?) Theodore Roosevelt is the only President who was born in New York City (in Manhattan). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firsts-in-this-election/747336.md?page=2)