Ex-RNC Chair: President Trump Has a 'Clear Lack of Understanding of the History This Country'

[DonViejo]

by Aidan McLaughlin | 1:22 pm, May 1st, 2017

After playing a clip of the interview on her show, Andrea Mitchell asked Michael Steele, former head of the Republican National Committee and MSNBC political commentator, about the comments.

“I think he’s re-writing history,” Mitchell said.

Steele — jokingly — suggested the reason for the war was “probably because of the resistance by the North, and not so much what the South was doing.”

He then told Mitchell these historically-challenged comments are part of a larger pattern:

Again, there’s a clear lack of understanding of the history of this country, particularly with matters related to race and civil rights, and the Civil War.

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[greymattermom]

1. Civil was history is everywhere around where I live

Not so much in Manhattan and Palm Beach.

[pangaia]

5. What do you mean NOT Manhattan.

George Crook attacked Brooklyn across the Verrazano Narrows Bridge with his 600 Light Cavalry, but George Washington dogged a bullet and crossed the East River (then known as Giant River) quickly to stop him at Ebbets Field. It's true. That's why there is that huge Ballentyne Cemetery there.

[ladjf]

2. The President is an ignorant , dangerous lame brain. nt

[delisen]

3. ...and Trump was born here--maybe he had an inferior

private education.

[lpbk2713]

4. He has to phrase it delicately.

Most other people would simply say Trump is a total asshole.

[BeyondGeography]

6. Trump's rent-seeking, appetite-craving brain is so bored by this sort of thing

History? You have GOT to be kidding.

[Thinkingabout]

7. Trump does not seem to be able to help himself, he continues to do and say things

which does not make any sense. If he isn't ashamed of himself it only makes this worse.

[modrepub]

8. That Ivy League Education (Penn)

sure is looking bad now.