Conservative website touts “historian” who claims "Trump Most Impactful President Since FDR”

The claim is breathtaking.

Trump and FDR in the same category.

Yes, says Doug Weed, who's described by Newsmax, the rightwing media website, as a "presidential historian."  Actually, he's a former presidential aide (he worked for both Bush I and II) whose credentials include the time spent at a bible college from which he did not graduate, according to Wikipedia. His identification as a historian rests on the fact that he authored books on the children of presidents, the parents of presidents, and Reagan hagiography.

Weed made the Trump/FDR comparison on Fox News.  It was later circulated by Newsmax: 

Love him or hate him, Donald Trump has been the most impactful president since Franklin D. Roosevelt. When it comes to politics, James Carville and Paul Begala taught us that "its the economy stupid." By those metrics Donald Trump leaves George W. Bush and Barack Obama standing still.

Under both presidents the rich got richer and the poor got poorer with a rigged, crony capitalism system in place. Now, in one year, we have 1.7 million new jobs, unemployment is at the lowest in 17 years, and the stock market has broken records 80 times in one year. We have a reformed the Internal Revenue Code. It was Ronald Reagan's stellar achievement, but it took him five years — and a massive re-election landslide to get it.

The list goes on.We are becoming energy independent. Both Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter would have given their right arms for that. It was considered an impossible prospect in the 1970's and 1980's. Illegal immigration has dropped like a rock.Isis has been driven out of its cities and wiped off the maps of the Mideast. Trump has also  transformed the judiciary, not only the Supreme Court, but 12 lower federal circuit judges. This is the most in a first year of any presidency in American history. 

There!  Take that liberal media.

You can watch Doug Weed make this claim on Fox News below: