FlipBoardPeople have frequently compared Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. But there’s another, strangely more apt comparison to make: Donald Trump is a lot like former president Andrew Jackson.
Jackson was America’s seventh president, and ran as an outsider candidate (having made his name as a celebrated officer in the War of 1812, and then in… real estate), a lot like how Trump came into wealth and fame. And just like Trump, Jackson was described by his critics as too hot-headed and vulgar. “I was born for a storm, and calm does not suit me,” Jackson replied to this criticism, which goes to show how much more articulate people were back then, even the so-called vulgar ones.
Thomas Jefferson’s criticism of Jackson may ring some bells: “He has had very little respect for laws and constitutions.” Like Trump wants to kick out undocumented immigrants from America, Jackson forcibly relocated Native Americans on the Trail of Tears. During this march, one in four of the Native Americans died.
Trump hasn’t shot anyone and gotten away with it, but Jackson did. It seems crazy that we would one day have Trump’s face adorning our currency, but a lot of crazy things have happened in American politics lately.
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congratulations! The internet has reached peaked stupidity. Not only does this piece read like an illiterate 5th grader’s essay, anyone with the slightest grasp of presidential history knows this comparison is beyond absurd. But how would we expect anyone to know anything about Andrew Jackson since he doesn’t seem to have a twitter account or Facebook page. Maybe if there was a jazzy new broadway play about him, it would make Andrew Jackson trendy…oh, right, there already was…
Thanks for sharing your opinion here, at this place that you hate.
@Mozinho Can you link me to any essays by illiterate 5th graders? I want to compare the two for myself.
Actually the comparison is rather apt, in a broad sense Trump is in many ways a modern version of Jacksonian Democracy.
The broadest broad sense.
Dear Mr. RomanCandle,
It is the exact opposite of apt. The only thing the two share is maybe some scotch/irish ancestry, and that is it. Wikipedia is not your friend…
Jacksonian democracy is a political philosophy that draws on populism, machismo, American nationalism, anti-elitism, working-class values, and anti-intellectualism.
That sounds NOTHING like Trump.
I can’t wait for donald trump tribunal
Trump have a pretty solid military history too? Jackson was a pretty terrible person, but don’t insult him with a Trump comparison unless your next article compares Obama to Jimmy Carter…
Most of the 19th century presidents were madmen that make Trump look like an idiot kitten. We just chose to remember (most of) them differently.
Oh christ, did that video really try to compare Jefferson and Obama?