If you've read any history, you know otherwise. That's a pretty strong word. The Boston Globe's Richard Cohen seems to suppose so.
Malicious hatred is a sin.
Besides, it spoils a good breakfast. Our president slices the truth into salami strips, hits below the belt, dodges responsibility. Well, so do lots of others. Sounds fetching, in our anti-judgmental age, when only racists, sexists, and gun nuts are accounted evil. But a president doesn't qualify for such an exception.