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Any worthwhile list of Pantheon-level American icons must include men like John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton.

In their day, those great men sometimes quarreled and sometimes collaborated. But they all had one thing in common: they all recognized George Washington as the greatest man of their age.

Small wonder, therefore, that when President Donald Trump has asked visitors to the Oval Office whether Washington’s portrait or a portrait of former President Ronald Reagan deserves the most prominent place for display — a question Trump has asked more than 200 times — the answer has come back unanimous: Washington every time.

Earlier this week, Trump sat down for an interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham. Afterward, the president gave Ingraham a tour of the Oval Office.

There, he posed the question again.

“So here’s a question I ask,” Trump said. “So Reagan has a place of prominence, and George Washington has a place of prominence. And I’ve asked this question maybe two hundred times [when] people come in.”

The camera panned the Oval Office to reveal large portraits of Reagan and Washington. Smaller portraits of many other presidents also hung on the wall.

“I said, ‘So, who would you put in the place of prominence, George Washington or Ronald Reagan?’ Who would