Everybody seems to know why the Civil War was fought -- except the sitting President of the United States

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3hJonathan Capehart
@CapehartJ
[h=1]Everybody seems to know why the Civil War was fought -- except the sitting President of the United States. [/h]


Opinion | Trump’s woefully ignorant beliefs about the Civil War and Andrew Jacksonwashingtonpost.com

 

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Matt Fuller
@MEPFuller





This is the fight respected historian Donald Trump wants to have—Abraham Lincoln wasn't *that* great and Andrew Jackson woulda been better. Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrumpPresident Andrew Jackson, who died 16 years before the Civil War started, saw it coming and was angry. Would never have let it happen!

 

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1hDan Murphy
@bungdan
[h=1]He would have.. he would have.. demanded the south give up slavery? Not pursued genocide against the Cherokee? [/h]Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrumpPresident Andrew Jackson, who died 16 years before the Civil War started, saw it coming and was angry. Would never have let it happen!





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What's particularly sad is that Trump doesn't have the attention span to absorb the white nationalist talking points Bannon feeds him.

 

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[h=1]When you get caught knowing nothing, but can't walk away even in the service of your dignity. [/h]Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrumpPresident Andrew Jackson, who died 16 years before the Civil War started, saw it coming and was angry. Would never have let it happen!

 

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59mSteven Dennis
@StevenTDennis
[h=1]Andrew Jackson also never freed the slaves he owned & had them hunted down when they ran away. [/h]Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrumpPresident Andrew Jackson, who died 16 years before the Civil War started, saw it coming and was angry. Would never have let it happen!

 

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Lol

Sean Hannity
@seanhannityThe Commander-in-Chief is fighting back against the media that has been trying to destroy him... That’s tonight’s monologue #Hannity

 

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19mThe Reagan Battalion
@ReaganBattalion
[h=1]The GOP adopted a lifelong Democrat, he adopted another lifelong Democrat, and we conservatives are paying the price. [/h]The Reagan Battalion
@ReaganBattalion






Andrew Jackson on his runaway slaves.

 

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In audio posted on Monday, President Trump said Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, was "really angry" about what was happening with the Civil War.

There's one major problem with that statement: Jackson died in 1845, nearly 16 years before the Civil War began.


Let's dissect the full quote, sentence by sentence.


"I mean, had Andrew Jackson been a little bit later, you wouldn't have had the Civil War."


This is in the vein of imagining various alternate histories of the United States.


"He was a very tough person, but he had a big heart."


Jackson was known for his temper and his loyalty to his friends, so this is OK.


"He was really angry that-- he saw what was happening with regard to the Civil War."


Jackson did not, because Jackson was dead.


"He said, 'There's no reason for this.'"


See above.


Trump's quote came during an interview with the Washington Examiner's Salena Zito. The two discussed Trump's visit to Tennessee in March, during which he toured the Hermitage, laid a wreath at Jackson's tomb and called him the "people's president."


SiriusXM revealed the quote in audio of the interview, which will air on SiriusXM P.O.T.U.S.'s Main Street Meets the Beltway show later on Monday. The Examiner story only mentions Jackson to note that the seventh president's portrait now hangs in the Oval Office.

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Late Monday night, Trump took to Twitter to clarify his comments, saying Jackson "saw" the Civil War "coming and was angry" despite not being alive.

 

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2hStephen Miller
@redsteeze
[h=1]Have to love a Republican president passionately defending the founder of the Democratic Party on Twitter[/h]

 

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The D's just don't seem to get it and their disconnect with the American people continues. Trump and the RNC are hoping that irrelevant matters like this and the tax returns remain the focus of the D's. Issues like this are baked in and for the most part, people don't care.

If the people have more money in their pockets and feel safe from outside attacks, you will have until 2024 to dig up facts that don't really matter to the majority of the US electorate. Keep focusing on these issues, the entire Republican party thanks you.

 

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President Andrew Jackson, who died 16 years before the Civil War started, saw it coming and was angry. Would never have let it happen!

 

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President Andrew Jackson, who died 16 years before the Civil War started, saw it coming and was angry. Would never have let it happen!

Lol

 

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The D's just don't seem to get it and their disconnect with the American people continues. Trump and the RNC are hoping that irrelevant matters like this and the tax returns remain the focus of the D's. Issues like this are baked in and for the most part, people don't care.

If the people have more money in their pockets and feel safe from outside attacks, you will have until 2024 to dig up facts that don't really matter to the majority of the US electorate. Keep focusing on these issues, the entire Republican party thanks you.

Youre right. Who cares if the president is an idiot...certainly not the people that voted for him

 

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3hJonathan Capehart
@CapehartJ
Everybody seems to know why the Civil War was fought -- except the sitting President of the United States.




Opinion | Trump’s woefully ignorant beliefs about the Civil War and Andrew Jacksonwashingtonpost.com

[FONT=&quot]PoliTech, a student group at Texas Tech University went around campus and [/FONT]asked three questions[FONT=&quot]: "Who won the Civil War?", "Who is our vice president?" and "Who did we gain our independence from?" Students' answers ranged from "the South?" for the first question to "I have no idea" for all three of them. However, when asked about the show Snookie starred in ("Jersey Shore") or Brad Pitt's marriage history, they answered correctly.

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Everybody seems to know why the Civil War was fought -- except the sitting President of the United States.




Opinion | Trump’s woefully ignorant beliefs about the Civil War and Andrew Jacksonwashingtonpost.com

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Everybody seems to know why the Civil War was fought -- except the sitting President of the United States.




Opinion | Trump’s woefully ignorant beliefs about the Civil War and Andrew Jacksonwashingtonpost.com

Survey: Half of Americans Don’t Know When the Civil War Took Place

Seven Score and 10 Years After Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination, One in Five Can’t Name John Wilkes Booth as Lincoln’s Assassin in a Multiple Choice Survey



April 14, 2015

WASHINGTON, DC—On the 150th anniversary of the tragic night when John Wilkes Booth slipped into Ford’s Theater and shot President Abraham Lincoln, a survey released by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni reveals another tragedy: Lincoln—and much of his legacy—is being lost to the ages.

According to the survey, only half the American public could correctly identify when the Civil War took place and just 18% knew the Emancipation Proclamation meant slaves were free in areas still in rebellion. When asked to match Lincoln with the famous phrase from the Gettysburg Address “that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth,” more respondents chose a passage from the Declaration of Independence than the lines from Lincoln’s pen.

Nearly one in five Americans failed to identify John Wilkes Booth as Lincoln’s assassin and one in three could not identify Lincoln as a leader of the Union Army. Hundreds of respondents chose “Confederate Army,” the Revolutionary War’s “Continental Army,” World War II’s “Allied Forces,” or simply wouldn’t answer.

College graduates, too, struggled with the survey. One third did not know when the Civil War took place and only 28% knew the effect of the Emancipation Proclamation. Only 40% correctly identified the quote from the Gettysburg Address—one of the most famous lines in American history—from Lincoln.

“These results are tragic witness to the alarming level of historical illiteracy in this country,” said ACTA President Anne Neal. “Sadly, we should not be surprised: Our What Will They Learn?TM study has found that just 18% of the 1,100 liberal arts colleges and universities we survey require graduates to have even a single survey course in American history or government.”

The study of 1,000 respondents was completed by GfK Custom Research with a margin of error of +/- 3 percentage points. ACTA has commissioned previous historical literacy studies on the Roosevelt family, D-Day, and general historical knowledge.


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3hJonathan Capehart
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Everybody seems to know why the Civil War was fought -- except the sitting President of the United States.




Opinion | Trump’s woefully ignorant beliefs about the Civil War and Andrew Jacksonwashingtonpost.com

[h=1]14 Surprising Things Americans Don’t Know, According To Poll Numbers[/h][h=4]Nico Lang[/h]
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1. Only 45% of Americans were able to correctly identify what the initials in GOP stood for: Grand Old Party. Other popular guesses were Government of the People and God’s Own Party. Republicans obviously scored much better than Democrats did on this answer. [source]
2. 55% of Americans believe that Christianity was written into the Constitution and that the founding fathers wanted One Nation Under Jesus. This includes 75% of Republicans and Evangelicals. [source]
3. Although a “relatively” high 40% of people were able to name all three of the United States branches of government — executive, legislative and judicial — a far lower percentage knew the length of a Senator’s term. Just 25% responded that a Senator’s term stretches for six years. Even less, 20%, knew how many Senators there were. [source]
4. Americans are known to pick recent heads of state as among the best president in history, which is why Clinton and Reagan regularly rank higher than Lincoln, FDR and Washington. However, Hoover used to routinely top polls of the worst, but today, just 43% of Americans knew who he was, according to statistics from the University of Pennsylvania. [source]
5. When asked on what year 9/11 took place, 30% of Americans were unable to answer the question correctly, even as few as five years after the attack. This was according to a Washington Post poll conducted in 2006. . [source]
6. It’s not shocking that 80% of Americans believe that there is life out there somewhere, because it’s hard to look at a vast universe and think we’re completely alone. But another 1 in 5 allege that an alien life form has abducted a friend or family member of theirs, which based on population estimates of around 300 million means that a lot of fucking people have been probed. [source]
7. When looking at a map of the world, young Americans had a difficult time correctly identifying Iraq (1 in 7) and Afghanistan (17%). This isn’t that surprising, but only a slim majority (51%) knew where New York was. According to Forbes and National Geographic, an alarming 29% couldn’t point to the Pacific Ocean. [source]
8. 25% of Americans were unable to identify the country from which America gained its independence. Although 19% stated that they were unsure, Gallup findings indicated that others stated answers varying from France to China. Older folks scored much better than young people on this question, as a third of those 18-29 were unable to come up with the correct answer. [source]
9. Despite being a constant fixture in school curricula, another 30% of Americans didn’t know what the Holocaust was. Despite being some of the worst devastation in human history, Americans were unable to identify the country responsible: We were. Us. [source]
10. Even though we are a predominantly Christian country, only half of Americans knew that Judaism came before Christianity, because the words “Old Testament” are apparently very confusing in that regard. [source]
11. A surprisingly high percentage of Americans, 20%, believe that the Sun revolves around the Earth, instead of the opposite, aka. the correct answer. This is despite the fact that centuries of science have consistently proved otherwise. [source]
12. In 2011, Newsweek found that 29% of Americans were unable to correctly identify the current Vice President, Joe Biden, when asked to take a simple citizenship test. Although a relatively low 6% didn’t know when Independence Day was, a much, much higher percentage (73%) had no idea why we fought the Cold War. [source]
13. According to most polls, Americans didn’t know that Obamacare was scheduled to go into effect. Kaiser puts the number at 64%, whereas others say as few as 1 in 8. [source]
14. 2006 AP polls showed that a majority of Americans were unable to name more than one of the protections guaranteed in the first Amendment of the Constitution — which include speech, assembly, religion, press and “redress of grievance.” Just 1 in 1000 could name all of these five freedoms. However, 22% were able to come up with the name of every member of the Simpson family. [source]

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3hJonathan Capehart
@CapehartJ
Everybody seems to know why the Civil War was fought -- except the sitting President of the United States.




Opinion | Trump’s woefully ignorant beliefs about the Civil War and Andrew Jacksonwashingtonpost.com

[h=1]Study: Americans Don't Know Much About History[/h][h=2]There's an epidemic of historical and political ignorance, says report[/h]
A majority of Americans from all backgrounds struggled to come up with the correct answers in a quiz about American history by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI). More than 2,500 randomly selected Americans took ISI's basic 33 question test on civic literacy and 71% of them received an average score of 49% or an "F."

The quiz reveals that over twice as many people know Paula Abdul was a judge on American Idol than know that the phrase "government of the people, by the people, for the people" comes from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
The study finds that only half of U.S. adults can name all three branches of government, and just 54% know that the power to declare war belongs to Congress. Almost 40% incorrectly said that it belongs to the president.
Those who have held elected office lack civic knowledge; 43% do not know the Electoral College is a constitutionally mandated assembly that elects the president. One in five thinks it "trains those aspiring for higher office" or "was established to supervise the first televised presidential debates."
"There is an epidemic of economic, political, and historical ignorance in our country," says Josiah Bunting, III, Chairman of ISI's National Civic Literacy Board. "It is disturbing enough that the general public failed ISI's civic literacy test, but when you consider the even more dismal scores of elected officials, you have to be concerned. How can political leaders make informed decisions if they don't understand the American experience? Colleges can, and should, play an important role in curing this national epidemic of ignorance."


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Survey: Half of Americans Don’t Know When the Civil War Took Place

Seven Score and 10 Years After Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination, One in Five Can’t Name John Wilkes Booth as Lincoln’s Assassin in a Multiple Choice Survey



April 14, 2015

WASHINGTON, DC—On the 150th anniversary of the tragic night when John Wilkes Booth slipped into Ford’s Theater and shot President Abraham Lincoln, a survey released by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni reveals another tragedy: Lincoln—and much of his legacy—is being lost to the ages.

According to the survey, only half the American public could correctly identify when the Civil War took place and just 18% knew the Emancipation Proclamation meant slaves were free in areas still in rebellion. When asked to match Lincoln with the famous phrase from the Gettysburg Address “that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth,” more respondents chose a passage from the Declaration of Independence than the lines from Lincoln’s pen.

Nearly one in five Americans failed to identify John Wilkes Booth as Lincoln’s assassin and one in three could not identify Lincoln as a leader of the Union Army. Hundreds of respondents chose “Confederate Army,” the Revolutionary War’s “Continental Army,” World War II’s “Allied Forces,” or simply wouldn’t answer.

College graduates, too, struggled with the survey. One third did not know when the Civil War took place and only 28% knew the effect of the Emancipation Proclamation. Only 40% correctly identified the quote from the Gettysburg Address—one of the most famous lines in American history—from Lincoln.

“These results are tragic witness to the alarming level of historical illiteracy in this country,” said ACTA President Anne Neal. “Sadly, we should not be surprised: Our What Will They Learn?TM study has found that just 18% of the 1,100 liberal arts colleges and universities we survey require graduates to have even a single survey course in American history or government.”

The study of 1,000 respondents was completed by GfK Custom Research with a margin of error of +/- 3 percentage points. ACTA has commissioned previous historical literacy studies on the Roosevelt family, D-Day, and general historical knowledge.


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So you're defending trump by saying he's in the same group as the dumbest Americans? Ok, I'll buy that

 

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Another example of that there moderate / independent thought process at work. You just can't make shit this stupid up.

Donny was being philosophical, thinking out loud about how the civil may have been avoided. But idiots are going to react like idiots, maybe this will give them more reasons to physically attack their political adversaries, burn a few flags and go loot their neighborhood businesses

And they want a seat at the adults' table

face)(*^%