Trump Doesn’t Know Why the Civil War Happened, But He Does Think Slave Owner Andrew Jackson Could Have Stopped It

"Had Andrew Jackson been a little bit later, you wouldn’t have had the Civil War" @realDonaldTrump told @SalenaZito. Full intv at 2pE, Ch124 pic.twitter.com/d7PuRRm7Md

— SiriusXMPolitics (@SXMPolitics) May 1, 2017

Here's Trump's full answer on "swashbuckler" Andrew Jackson and the Civil War: "Why could that one not have been worked out?" pic.twitter.com/Zb8OQaDqyq

— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) May 1, 2017

Andrew Jackson was a slaveholding plantation owner. He also died 16 years before the Civil War began. This Trump answer is astonishing. https://t.co/wdKNkUOx1t

— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) May 1, 2017

Andrew Jackson died 16 years before the Civil War started nor did he have a big heart, HE WAS A SLAVE OWNER Buffoon!pic.twitter.com/nt5PNYzZWL

— Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) May 1, 2017

1) Jackson did not see the CW. He was very dead.
2) "the Civil War, why?"
3) Holy shit
4) Has Trump ever mentioned slavery? pic.twitter.com/VtdIuTnmDz

— Vann R. Newkirk II (@fivefifths) May 1, 2017

Trump's answer on Andrew Jackson and the Civil War just earned him a Betsy DeVos scholarship.

— Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) May 1, 2017

Andrew Jackson talked to Frederick Douglass about the Civil War while they ate Trump steaks near the site of the Bowling Green Massacre.

— Kaivan Shroff (@KaivanShroff) May 1, 2017

@IsaacDovere The Civil War, worst deal ever. It could have been so easy, believe me. Sad!

— Today's Word Salad (@JayCee86137684) May 1, 2017