Edward Gibbon on Donald Trump in American Election Debate No. 1

… that feeble prince was destitute of personal merit.[1]

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[1] Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Ed. and Abridged Hans-Friedrich Mueller (New York: The Modern Library, 2003), p. 359, (Chapter XIX).   It is worth noting that Gibbon began publishing his work in the same year as the American Declaration of Independence.