Steve Bannon Pushed Trump to Go Full Andrew Jackson
When Steve Bannon looks at President Donald Trump, he sees the original populist president. Only taller. With better hair.
ASAWIN SUEBSAENG
03.17.17 12:00 AM ET
When President Donald J. Trump tweeted a photo of himself solemnly saluting Andrew Jackson at the deceased presidents Nashville tomb, it was all part of Stephen K. Bannons populist plan.
On Wednesday, Trump honored the birthday of Jackson, the seventh American president and founder of the Democratic Party, in his remarks outside the Hermitage, Jacksons former estate in Nashville, Tennessee. Trump, a Republican, self-promoted himself as the modern-day heir to Jacksons legacy.
It was during the revolution that Jackson first confronted and defied an arrogant elite. Does that sound familiar? Trump said ahead of a rally in Nashville on Wednesday. The president, who noted that his visit to the Hermitage was inspirational and that he is big Jackson fan, also sang Jacksons praises earlier that day during an unrelated speech in Detroit, Michigan.
But President Trumps love affair with the ghost of Andrew Jackson is a relatively newfound one. His only other tweet about Jackson came in July 2013, when he wrote: Interesting
the last time a Democrat succeeded a two-term Democratic pres. was in 1836 when Martin Van Buren succeeded Andrew Jackson. (Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton would have succeeded two-term president Barack Obama but was of course defeated by Trump in the 2016 election.)
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lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)in Argentina?
El Mimbreno
(777 posts)who defied the Supreme Court and sent the Cherokee Nation on the Trail of Tears. No wonder trump salutes him.