He’s FREEKIN’ Insane
Okay, Donald Trump taped an interview with Sirius/XM Radio.
Apparently, some damn fool told Trump he was a lot like Andrew Jackson. Only in the hair department, I suspect.
Andrew Jackson was the founder of the Democratic Party. He was a lawyer, a member of Congress and the Senate, served as Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court, and was pretty much a career politician.
His nickname Old Hickory came while marching his volunteer army from New Orleans to Nashville. Imagine Trump doing that. No, don’t. Trump sweating is painful to look at.
Anyway, before I get all carried away with pride and demonstrate convincingly that I am a high school graduate who took American history, here is Trump’s interview.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: His wife died. They destroyed his wife and she died. He was a swashbuckler, but when his wife died you know he visited her grave everyday? I visited her grave actually because I was in Tennessee.
SALENA ZITO: That’s right, you were in Tennessee.
TRUMP: And it was amazing. The people of Tennessee are amazing people. They love Andrew Jackson. They love Andrew Jackson in Tennessee…
ZITO: He’s a fascinating…
TRUMP: I mean had Andrew Jackson been a little later you wouldn’t have had the Civil War. He was a very tough person, but he had a big heart. He was really angry that he saw what was happening with regard to the Civil War, he said “There’s no reason for this.” People don’t realize, you know, the Civil War, if 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?
Yeah, why didn’t Abraham Lincoln “work it out?” I mean, a little slavery is alright, is’t it?
Jackson owned 150 slaves. He died 16 years before the civil war so how the damn fool tarnation could he have been angry and said, “There’s no reason for this?” Are the ghosts talking to Trump in the White House?
Oh good Lord, y’all, he’s crazy. He knows diddle squat about this country and he’s not even curious.
Little known fact: Andrew Jackson also hated CNN.
Yeah, Jackson’s “big heart” led to that little Trail of Tears thing. It was his version of deporting people, except from lands they’d been living on for centuries at least, and he didn’t care how many died in the process.
Here’s another example of his “big heart,” in an ad he wrote for a runaway slave of his:
Jackson, who would become the country’s seventh commander in chief in 1829, promised anyone who captured this “Mulatto Man Slave” a reward of $50, plus “reasonable” expenses paid.
Jackson added a line that some historians find particularly cruel.
It offered “ten dollars extra, for every hundred lashes any person will give him, to the amount of three hundred.”
The ad was signed, “ANDREW JACKSON, Near Nashville, State of Tennessee.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/04/11/hunting-down-runaway-slaves-the-cruel-ads-of-andrew-jackson-and-the-master-class/
If Jackson indeed said that there was no reason for the conflict that eventually became the Civil War, it was because he saw no reason for the North to interfere with slavery.
Lots of similarities with Donnie?
1Okay, this was on par with Sarah Palin claiming that Paul Revere rang bells, fired shots and made sure the British wouldn’t be taking our guns away.
Except—if possible (dog help me) she actually sounded a bit less crazier than Trump.
2As much as he is historically illiterate, he is also biblically illiterate yet young Jerry Falwell of Liberty U., backs him to the hilt and swears he speaks for all evangelicals when he does so. Watched Charlie Rose the AM. His guest was a nice lady from the New York Times who has done deep research on Trump and said in her own words that he does not read print. He is intellectually drawn to anything pictorial like TV. All I am going to say right now is that he is not a candidate for Nobel. Thank God!!!!!!!!!
3Whoever drew that comparison was, imo, just stating the facts.
Jackson hated anyone who wasn’t just like him — as he proved by his treatment of the First Peoples and the slaves. And yeah, Jackson’s enemies did destroy his wife — after he had worked his tukus off to destroy THEM.
Does any of this sound familiar? But trust Tweety to focus solely on how people did Jackson wrong rather than seeing the Big Picture.
The good news here is this: our nation survived Jackson. It went on to produce Martin Luther King Jr. and Elizabeth Warren and Bobby Kennedy and Hillary Clinton and Jimmy Carter. And that gives me hope for the future of the nation — so long as cooler heads can keep Tweety’s hands away from the nuclear football.
4NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
IMHO,
President Jackson MADE the American Presidency what it is today. He is one of the greatest presidents to serve. He should be spoken of in the same breath as G Washington, T Roosevelt, JFK, and JQ Adams. His image should grace the $1 bill not $20 bill.
Now having said all that, Jackson definitely was a violent lunatic, who quarreled at the drop of a hat and dueled mano a mano more often than most of us think wise or healthy. Indeed in the duel following a quarrel with Charles Dickinson, Jackson offered Dickinson the first shot. Dickinson’s shot struck Jackson but missed vital organs; Jackson’s shot did not miss Dickinson’s vitals.
And finally, near the end of his life a journalist asked Jackson had he any regrets in his life. Yes, replied Jackson. He regretted not shooting Henry Clay and not hanging John C Calhoun. You should note with some interest that Mr Calhoun was Jackson’s vice-president.
😉
5I guess I should have compared Drumpf to Jackson to make some sort of coherent point rather than a bromance not about Andrew Jackson.
Jackson was a lunatic. Violent. Prone to murder by his own hand.
Drumpf is a lunatic. And a pu$$y.
6I have to assume someone told Mr Trump about the Nullification Act, which was the first time South Carolina thought to leave the union. Jackson quelled that crisis, surprisingly enough, with a political compromise. Knowing his temperament I’m surprised he didn’t lead the first march to the sea himself.
Full disclosure: I grew up in Tennessee, and I do not love Andrew Jackson.
7Now that Trump has insulted black people, I await his interview next week where he discusses woman’s suffrage:
With regard to women’s suffrage, “There’s no reason for this.” People don’t realize, you know, women’s suffrage, if you think about it, why? People don’t ask that question, but why was there women’s suffrage?
8I’m sure if somebody asked about women’s suffrage, Mr. Trump would come out strong against women having to suffer.
9Do something, Congress! Impeach or hold an intervention for his crazy a$$. Don’t wait for his family of criminals to do your work. They’ll hold onto the grift of his office as long as they can. If the Emoluments Clause isn’t enough to float your boat, flat freaking insane should be.
10Slime attracts slime. It’s a scientific fact. “Real science,” I mean. If you have big bowl of water, drop 2 small blobs of slime in it. As soon as they get close enough, they glom onto each other and won’t let go. They clutch one another tighter than any 2 lovers ever did. That’s how and why Orange Whore gloms onto any historical or modern slime. (I really do hate him.)
11I’d add a pretty lame comment here but theres no need. Everyone else has done a fine job and the heading pretty much says it all. Well, it DOES say it all.
Oh crap! I can’t help myself. I guess I’m nearly as bad as he is.
You’d think that someone, SOMEONE, just one small person in his group, entourage, office, crowd, workgroup, cabinet(?) naw… , … someone, anyone, would sit him down and help him out on this stuff before he blurts it out. Surely his children are concerned about him enough to see that he doesn’t make and ass of himself EVERY TIME he opens his mouth! They must have gone to school! Well, private school, who knows!
OT, For some reason I seem to remember that ‘YOU’D’ was spelled ‘YOU’LD’. No doubt it’s been more than 50 years since I would’ve learned that. Did I just make it up? I guess I could axe Mr Google about it but it seems more fun to look here at the moment. The reason I bring it up is because…spellcheck.
12One person tells him he’s a lot like Jackson and he believes it. Hmm. How many people have to call him an orange s**tgibbon for it to sink in? [Hope Mama doesn’t interpret asterisks replacements]
13Finally remembered other reason why Trump is like Jackson. When the Supreme Court told Jackson he couldn’t force all the native Americans to move west of the Mississippi, he said (I’m paraphrasing): “I have the Army, so who gives a frack what you think?” and did it anyway.
14How about the thought that Trump thought being compared to Jackson was a compliment? Was it the slavery, the expelling Native Americans from their land or his apparent love of his wife ( and we would have to guess which one of Trump’s) that he liked?
15One the one hand, this may be a tortured and torturous reference to Jackson kicking SC back into line in the Nullification Crisis.
16On the other hand, this may be an entitled idjit showing how proud he is of being ignorant.
How’s this for after dinner amusement?
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/commerce-secretary-trumps-decision-to-bomb-syria-was-after-dinner-entertainment-for-guests-at-mar-a-lago/
17The hatred felt for Jackson is still felt by Native Americans. Many will not use the $20 bill as his portrait is on it.
18I do pretty much agree with Micr on Andrew Jackson, who was a terrible person in many ways, but was nothing like Trump. He valued his wife and hated the people who denigrated her for marrying Jackson before her divorce was final–although she and Jackson thought it was. He was physically brave, which is more than can be said for Trump–he carried the bullet fired by Dickinson to the end of his life, and it gave him endless health problems; he fought Indians in the Creek War and in Florida, and won the Battle of New Orleans against the British at the end of the War of 1812.
As President, he put an end to South Carolina’s effort to nullify a tariff passed by Congress, preserving the subordination of individual states to the Federal government. He added many thousands of acres of Spanish land to the territory of the United States. He was also a lawyer, a Congressman, and a Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court, before he became President. For all his faults, he was an intelligent man, dedicated to the United States, and a hero in his own time. Definitely not Trump.
1945 like Old Hickory?
Someone accused 7’s wife of licentiousness and 7 got *his* gun.
Someone accuses (the latest of) 45’s wife of licentiousness and 45 got his lawyer’s…
Are we really surprised at how 45 is willing to to fight to the last drop of someone *else’s* blood?
I used to think the Koreans had the worst 20th Century out of anybody. I pray that 45 doesn’t keep that record going for the 21st…
20“He ain’t right”
21That was a quote from a friend re his dog.
She would be fine, then snap and lunge. There was no rhyme or reason to her actions.
Describes Trump perfectly.
Trump is a lot like Andrew Jackson.
They’re both brain dead.
22@Diane,
There is a genetic disorder in some lines of some dog breeds, known as “Rage Syndrome” (and an apparent similar sub-syndrome called “Springer Rage Syndrome”). Maybe the dog has it.
Who knew effen dogs had so many personality disorders?
A daughter has a beloved pointer type mixed breed with something similar, and a further linked “Stranger Syndrome/Separation anxiety disorder” condition, yeesh.
There’s even a “Berserk llama syndrome”, which seems to have crossed the species barrier and is rampant in certain political cohorts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rage_syndrome
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Syndromes_in_animals
23Trump is a veteran of the Snivel War.
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