- Â IDK probably a newcomer to US politics like Vladimir Putin.
 “Let’s get this outrageous “man” (TRUMP) out of here!”
Shouldn’t be too long now!
And he will say, “I am the best president ever, the best president in the world.”
 “Let’s get this outrageous “man” (TRUMP) out of here!”
- Â IDK probably a newcomer to US politics like Vladimir Putin.
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President Donald Trump said in an interview on SiriusXM’s “Main Street Meets the Beltway” show Monday that if Andrew Jackson had been president in 1860, the Civil War would have been averted. “Had Andrew Jackson been a little later, you wouldn’t have had the Civil War,” he stated, and he asked, “Why could that one not have been worked out?”
I asked David Blight, a Yale University historian whose work has focused on slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction, what he thought of Trump’s remarks. Here’s his response:
“Worked out?” God!…
Well, I just read these postings? So he really said this about Jackson and the Civil War? All I can say to you is that from day one I have believed that Donald Trump’s greatest threat to our society and to our democracy is not necessarily his authoritarianism, but his essential ignorance—of history, of policy, of political process, of the Constitution. Saying that if Jackson had been around we might not have had the Civil War is like saying that one strong, aggressive leader can shape, prevent, move history however he wishes. This is simply 5th grade understanding of history or worse. And this comes from the President of the United States! Under normal circumstances if a real estate tycoon weighed in on the nature of American history from such ignorance and twisted understanding we would simply ignore or laugh at him. But since this man lives in the historic White House and wields the constitutional powers of the presidency and the commander in chief we have to pay attention. Trump’s “learning” of American history must have stopped even before the 5th grade. I wish I could say this is funny and not deeply disturbing. My profession should petition the President to take a one or two month leave of absence, VP Pence steps in for that interim, and Trump goes on a retreat in one of his resorts for forced re-education. It could be a new tradition called the presidential education leave. Or perhaps in New Deal tradition, an “ignorance relief” period. This alone might gain the United States again some confidence and respect around the world.
Hope this helps. God help us.
Are some Americans really that dumb? Can’t they see that the Richer are getting richer far faster than any other time in American history??? Who would support a President that can’t more than 10 words together? Trump is really dumb, really, really dumb!
I believe if American politicians decide to declare any war, their children should be in the front lines!!
North Korea has a TRUMP Card. An incredible destructive force is aimed at Seoul. It is unstoppable.
The Seoul Capital Area houses up to half of the country’s population of 50.22 million people with 678,102 international residents
We can’t go to war with Korea. 20 Million people will die!!!
and the rest of the world. Shame on the Republicans for sucking up to him and ignoring how bad he is.
I hope Americans punish him in the next elections…