Alyssa Milano's Side-By-Side Comparison Of Trump Tweets Vs. Quotes From Former Presidents

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Well, this was definitely a (Not My) President's Day for the record books. Some spent the three-day weekend like they would any other year: hitting the sales or the nature trails, perhaps. Some, on the other hand, spent Monday the same way they spent Sunday — and last weekend, and basically every weekend in 2017: protesting President Donald Trump and his policies.

But while #NotMyPresidentsDay protests hit the streets across the country, Alyssa Milano was having a clever little protest of her own on Twitter. In honor of the holiday, our favorite self-memer tweeted a series of quotes from wise presidents of yore. And she paired each one with a quote — an original tweet, rather — from President Trump himself. We would call the difference shocking if it wasn't exactly what we'd expect.

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"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader," says a quote from President John Quincy Adams alongside Trump gem "SEE YOU IN COURT, THE SECURITY OF OUR NATION IS AT STAKE!"

We'll let the rest of the tweets speak for themselves.

"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall." -Ronald Reagan https://t.co/r0j3FPZx3E
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) February 20, 2017

"If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity." -JFK https://t.co/92kpelNY09
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) February 20, 2017

"You can not stop the spread of an idea by passing a law against it." -Harry S. Truman https://t.co/sYm9VvAOiW
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) February 20, 2017

"May our country be always successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right." -John Quincy Adams https://t.co/OlUtayQrsp
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) February 20, 2017

“America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds...” – George W. Bush https://t.co/tmo7M5tGEY
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) February 20, 2017

“We the people tell the government what to do, it doesn’t tell us.” – Ronald Reagan https://t.co/3AB6ZkeQ8S
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) February 20, 2017

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." -Franklin D. Roosevelt https://t.co/JJyAL71BBC
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) February 20, 2017

"The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam."
-Barack Obama https://t.co/kADJYbOUzE
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) February 20, 2017

"Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country." -Bill Clinton https://t.co/QStbRulhDJ
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) February 20, 2017

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." -John Quincy Adams https://t.co/E7tth1pgx2
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) February 20, 2017

“A president’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.” – Lyndon Johnson https://t.co/gEF4DESDGc
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) February 20, 2017

“Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.” – George H.W. Bush https://t.co/OKzunrczRm
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) February 20, 2017

“I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.” – Woodrow Wilson https://t.co/dtml1qZ4hH
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) February 20, 2017