As president, the first major piece of legislation Johnson signed was the Clean Air Act of 1963, a federal law designed to curb air pollution. The last was the Gun Control Act of 1968, which provided for stricter regulation of interstate firearms trafficking. In between, Johnson passed the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Medicare and Medicaid, and the Immigration and Nationality Services Act of 1965, which abolished quotas by country, thereby ending decades of discrimination against non-European immigrants to America.
The 45th U.S. president, on the other hand, has signed into law several pieces of legislation that appear to place fossil fuel interests ahead of environmental ones, e.g. doing away with the Stream Protection Rule and more recently, reconsidering a mining ban near the Grand Canyon; claimed the recent massacre at a Texas church, where a heavily-armed gunman shot and killed 26 people with an AR-15 assault rifle, was “not a guns situation”; defended the character of “many” neo-Nazis in the wake of their march on Charlottesville; and has repeatedly attempted (in vain) to institute a travel ban targeting Muslims.
In that weren’t enough, Johnson grew up poor in a tiny farmhouse in rural Stonewall, Texas, and slowly but surely worked his way up the government ranks, while Trump was born to a mega-rich real estate baron in New York City, and had zero political experience prior to assuming the nation’s highest office.
“He’s the polar opposite of Trump,” Woody Harrelson says of Johnson. “It’s not just the agenda, either. He actually got things done. If you look at his legislative record, he’s second only to FDR,” adds Rob Reiner.
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