Who is the greatest American to ever live?

Jesus Christ

John Smith the Mormon.

lol

these two plus shwarzenegger

>lewis and clark, niel armstrong, buzz aldrin, matthew perry
>jimi hendrix, elvis, scott joplin, masters and innovators every musical genre you enjoy throughout history
>Reagan, Eisenhower, MLK, Ben Franklin

Be careful who you call ugly in middle school, pleb

So how about somebody like Elvis Presley, he served his country in uniform, and encompassses some of your core ideals: rebelliousness, freedom, a flair for grandeur, a portion of arrogance and love for guns. He basically invented the modern pop-culture which trancends every national border, one of Americas' most striking features

to speak english fluently

oh desu sempai I speak English very, very good. I American?

What if the english-speaker lives in Ireland? Or Singapore? Are they American? Is a Canadian also an American?

Your logic is incorrect

George Washington, the father of our country.

He merely took the reins

Schwarzenegger

>naming pop performers as "artists"
Kill yourself you slack jawed monkey

Honestly, I think I have to agree with this. He figured out the American dream.

America has a lot of great writers though

Poets: Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore

Novelists: Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, Ernest Hemingway

He led the charge. Literally. In one battle he had three horses shot out from under him, and he continued to lead the charge.

Men follow men like that.

Men want to make men like that their King.

>columbus, magelan
>beethoven, mozart, shakespeare, goethe, cervantes
>leibnitz, newton, einstein
>luis XIV, churchill, frederik the great, gustavus adolphus

Are you even trying?

I agree he was a badass. I'm just saying that he wasn't exactly the father.
He is a great hero to look towards.

>no great scientists
We invented modern air conditioning you ungrateful fuck.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_Carrier

The most important part about Washington is the traditions he set.

> limited terms of office
> decentralizing of power from the executive
> peaceful transition of power
> civilian control of the military
> reduced political involvement of the president after the end of term

All these things have served the US fantastically for 250 years, and will continue to do so for the future. It's hard to find other leaders who have set positive precedence that has stood for this long.

>pretending to care about anything else

I may be a monkey but at least I am honest.

The only reason you cannot name our great country's traditional artists is because they are too recent and therefore obscure to your history textbooks.

>a country only 200 years young producing one-tenth the human beings eligible for that list

Shakespeare was just an American before the flag was raised, baby.

>Average American.png

I think you mean: Magellan, Leibniz, Louis XIV and Frederick II... please at least get the names right

all the things americans invented and you chose air conditioning

Military wise - Eisenhower fought great in WWII and helped the world in the postwwar climate.
Art wise _ Gershwin or Copland are probably the greatest innovators and Gershwin even included innovative social mores in his works.

So you steal Britain's accomplishments as your own?
Sums up North America really.

John Lennon.

Donald Trump is not only the greatest American to ever live but the greatest human in written history, surpassing figures like Jesus, Muhammad, and Napoleon.

Lol no maybe the worst

THIS

List of the ten greatest people to EVER live:

1. Donald Trump
2. Mike Pence
3. Sean Spicer
4. Genghis Khan
5. Napoleon
6. Alexander the Great
7. Muhammad
8. Constantine
9. Moses
10. Julius Caesar

every dead american is the greatest

based pede

ITT: Mohammeds and Euromutts

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Dexter

Ronald Wilson Reagan

>taking the bait

There are many American men of distinction, character, promise and genius.

I can't pick only one.

William Jennings Brian was one of many great Orators to exist in the nation. Great philosophical wit was provided by Samuel Clemens. Hosts of men had preceded them, and many more have followed them.

Inventors like Thomas Edison, innovators like Henry Ford, the Wright brothers, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak. etc.

Many many more.

We really are not I would say a nation one any one of us is held up over the other. Although there will always be those that fully trope the color of American ideals to great acclaim.

Edison was alright but he was also kind of a hack. His greatest invention was working out how to cheat the patent office.

I'm normally very liberal but I do agree that Trump is the greatest American ever.

You completely and entirely misspelled Einstein.

My vote goes to Ford. The man built an empire with his talents and did a uniquely American thing: making a relatively new technology available to the masses and a viable business model.

He means Megalon.

This triggers the socialist
>ford was great therefore we must make every business strategy he took mandatory without context
>ford beat his wife and created pollution and has too much money so we must outlaw every business strategy he took without context

George Washington
Mark Twain
Thomas Jefferson
Carl Schurz
Andrew Carnegie

For what they provided to public life, politics and intellectually.