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minus-squaremagnetosphere@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up3·8 months agoMy guess is that it has to do with the president lots of people speak fondly of, John F. Kennedy. Trump fans want him to be revered in the same way.
minus-squarealcoholicorn@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·8 months agoThat’s not fair, lots of people would like to remember Trump in the same way they remember JFK.
minus-squareNotSteve_@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 months agoNot entirely on topic but I’m curious, why do people include the F. In John F. Kennedy? Was there another well known John Kennedy at the time?
minus-squaremagnetosphere@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 months agoGood question. I don’t know, and I’m too lazy to look it up.
minus-squareNotSteve_@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-28 months agoFair enough haha. Decided to look it up myself and apparently it was a trend started by Franklin D. Roosevelt. Newspapers liked using the initials since it saved space in headlines so it kind of stuck around. Source: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/1136/when-did-presidents-start-using-their-middle-initial-e-g-john-f-kennedy-was
minus-squareBruceTwarzen@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoI mean people also said George W Bush a lot. But that might have been so no one confuses him with his incompetent father.
My guess is that it has to do with the president lots of people speak fondly of, John F. Kennedy. Trump fans want him to be revered in the same way.
That’s not fair, lots of people would like to remember Trump in the same way they remember JFK.
Not entirely on topic but I’m curious, why do people include the F. In John F. Kennedy? Was there another well known John Kennedy at the time?
Good question. I don’t know, and I’m too lazy to look it up.
Fair enough haha. Decided to look it up myself and apparently it was a trend started by Franklin D. Roosevelt. Newspapers liked using the initials since it saved space in headlines so it kind of stuck around.
Source: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/1136/when-did-presidents-start-using-their-middle-initial-e-g-john-f-kennedy-was
I mean people also said George W Bush a lot. But that might have been so no one confuses him with his incompetent father.