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. That’s 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 wouldn’t 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, ‘There’s no reason for this,'” Trump continued. “People don’t realize, you know, the Civil War, you think about it, why? People don’t 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.
Trump’s last unsuccessful foray into the history of slavery in the United States fell flat when he described 19th-century black abolitionist leader, social reformer and writer Frederick Douglass as “somebody who has done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more.”
He is right there never should have been an uncivil war. We should have found a way to resolve the issue. The aftermath is still with use today so giving another decade and a boat load of money would have been well worth it.
The uncivil war was a desire from those that hated the south and did not believe they were equal to the north. They just stuck a catchy tune of its to free the slaves from the south but do not send them up north to use!!! LOL
I read the transcript of the interview. Point out the part where Trump was confused and deluded and the part which supports your claim that he is as "Dumb as a Rock".
You can't, so STFU. What he said was prefaced with, “Had Andrew Jackson been a little later ..."
I know the answer,but I'd LOVE to see more people in prominent positions ask that question and get honest answers.
It damn sure didn't have anything to do with slavery.
In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
He is right there never should have been an uncivil war. We should have found a way to resolve the issue.
Everyone KNEW the way. It was in the contract the original 13 Colonies signed to form a union and create a nation named The United States of America."
It was a voluntary contract,and like all voluntary contracts,any signee had the right to withdraw if the conditions they had agreed to were changed. The north changed the conditions because the northern industrialists and bankers wanted total domination over every state in the nation,and the southern states withdrew from he VOLUNTARY union because they didn't want to be a part of a 19th century "borg".
In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
The war could always have been averted if the North had just bought all the slaves at a reasonable price and just turned them loose in Northern cities. They always loved these darkies a lot -- did they not?
" Everyone KNEW the way. It was in the contract the original 13 Colonies signed to form a union and create a nation named The United States of America."
It was a voluntary contract,and like all voluntary contracts,any signee had the right to withdraw if the conditions they had agreed to were changed. The north changed the conditions because the northern industrialists and bankers wanted total domination over every state in the nation,and the southern states withdrew from he VOLUNTARY union because they didn't want to be a part of a 19th century "borg". "
Very good summary Pete. We really should have just kept the Articles of Confederation. A whole new Constitution was really not needed.
Si vis pacem, para bellum
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