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By ESME CRIBB Published MAY 1, 2017 10:44 AM
President Donald Trump on Monday questioned why the Civil War occurred: Why could that one not have been worked out? In an interview with Washington Examiner reporter Salena Zito on SiriusXM show Main Street Meets the Beltway, Trump compared his campaign and election victory now over for more than six months to those of Andrew Jackson, an analogy Trump has courted since his inauguration.
They said my campaign is most like, my campaign and win, was most like Andrew Jackson, Trump said. I said, When was Andrew Jackson? It was 1828. Thats a long time ago.
The comparison might be less apt than Trump would like. Before Jackson was elected president, he killed a man he accused of insulting his wife in a duel. Trump appeared to praise Jackson, a slaveholder who was accused of slave trading and who owned approximately 150 people at the time of his death, as a swashbuckler.
Had Andrew Jackson been a little later, you wouldnt have had the Civil War, Trump said. He was a very tough person, but he had a big heart. (Jackson engineered the deaths of thousands of Native Americans while he was in office.)
He was really angry that he saw what was happening with regard to the Civil War, he said, Theres no reason for this,' Trump continued. People dont realize, you know, the Civil War, you think about it, why? People dont ask that question, but why was there the Civil War? Why could that one not have been worked out? In fact, Jackson died in 1845, long before the Civil War began in 1861, when seven southern slave states seceded after President Abraham Lincoln won election on a platform opposing the expansion of slavery into the territories. A total of 11 states eventually formed the Confederate States of America.
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hedda_foil
(16,376 posts)He obviously slept through history classes at his Military Academy. (I.e., reform school for bad right h kids)
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Andrew Jackson. He was a very tough person, but he had a big heart. This is how he sees himself. The deaths of Native Americans and the slave trading mean nothing to him. How do you do things like that and still be considered to "have a big heart"?
Trump is so out of touch with reality, it's frightening. We can't impeach him fast enough.
GeorgeGist
(25,326 posts)that he is a buffoon.