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BRAD REED
01 MAY 2017 AT 09:51 ET
During an interview with the Washington Examiner published on Monday, President Donald Trump claimed that former President Andrew Jackson was very angry about the American Civil War, and he would have stopped it had he still been president in 1861.
I mean, had Andrew Jackson been a little later, you wouldnt have had the Civil War, Trump said. He was a very tough person, but he had a big heart. He was very angry that he saw what was happening with regard to the Civil War, he said, Theres no reason for this.'
Jackson may have been a very tough person, but that didnt stop him from dying in 1845 or 16 years before the Civil War started.
The internet quickly pounced on the presidents historical illiteracy, and hammered him for not knowing very basic facts about his own countrys past. Some of the top reactions follow below.
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(17,865 posts)but it sounds like he is setting up a hypothetical - "What would Jackson do if states tried to secede." We all know the answer to that question - he wanted to hang Calhoun over the Nullification Crisis.
https://haysvillelibrary.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/andrew-jackson-the-nullification-crisis/
Nullification, the president told the people of South Carolina, was in direct violation of their duty as citizens of the united States and subversive of its Constitution. In Jacksons straightforward logic, nullification was tantamount to secession. The president must execute the law; resistance to such execution would have to forcible. Calhouns arguments for peaceful nullification were specious, Jackson declared. Do not be deceived by names Disunion by armed force is treason.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/57837/quotable-andrew-jackson-12-old-hickorys-best-lines
The day after Van Buren was elected president, Jackson took the time to reflect on his own presidency with a friend. When asked if he had any regrets about the last eight years, this was his response: [That] I didnt shoot Henry Clay and I didnt hang John C. Calhoun.