GoFundMe Campaign Started to ‘Finally Get to the Bottom of a Question That Literally No One Has Ever Pondered’
President Donald Trump’s inane comments have once again sparked hysterical response on social media, this time with what The Washington Post just called his “totally bizarre claim about avoiding the Civil War.”
In an interview with the Washington Examiner, President Trump discussed how angry the late President Andrew Jackson was about the American Civil War.
“He was really angry that he saw what was happening with regard to the Civil War,” Trump told the Examiner’s Salena Zito. “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 a Civil War? Why could that one not have been worked out?”
Well, one problem: Andrew Jackson, president until 1837, died eight years later, in 1845. The Civil War began 16 years after his death, in 1861. Of course, slavery should have come to mind as well.
The President once again has demonstrated a glaring lack of understanding of history. And while not a pre-requisite to hold the Oval Office, it would be nice if America’s President either understood America’s history, or did not discuss it publicly in such an embarrassing fashion.
Folks on Twitter are right now having a field day mocking the nation’s 45th President.
One, a ThinkProgress editor, has even created a GoFundMe campaign.
Inspired by President Donald Trump, this project will finally get to the bottom of a question that literally no one has ever pondered at any point in American history — “why was there the Civil War?”Â
There is no reason for this. People don’t realize, you know, the Civil War, if you think about it, why?
Another, a law professor, offers this response:
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