Trump: Jackson would have stopped Civil War; I would have stopped WWII

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Trump claims Andrew Jackson could have stopped Civil War – “Could have been worked out”

Separately, would be honored to meet “smart cookie” Kim Jung-Un

President Trump in March, saluting the grave of President Andrew Jackson in Nashville.Credit

On Monday, President Trump’s bromance with Andrew Jackson reached new heights when he declared, during an interview on Sirius XM’s P.O.T.U.S. channel:

"I mean, had Andrew Jackson been a little bit later you wouldn't have had the Civil War. He was a very tough person, but he had a big heart. He was really angry that he saw what was happening with regard to the Civil War."

Trump made the statement despite the fact that Jackson died in 1845, 16 years before the start of the Civil War – which he later acknowledged in a tweet after White House aides, in an attempt to lull him to sleep, read him a passage from Jon Meacham’s biography of Jackson.

Not only did Trump believe that Jackson could have stopped the Civil War, he went on to wonder why the Civil War occurred in the first place. “There’s no reason for this (the Civil War). People don’t realize, you know, the Civil War, if you think about it, why? People don’t ask that question, but why was there a Civil War? Why could that one not have been worked out?”

Clarifying Trump’s questioning of the reasons for the Civil War, White House spokesman Sean Spicer said, “President Trump was out caring for his heel spurs the morning the Civil War was discussed at his boarding school, the New York Military Academy, so he asked Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos for an explanation.”

Lost in the Civil War/Andrew Jackson coverage however, Trump made one other major announcement, which he characterized as "breaking news," when he said, regarding North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-Un, “He’s a smart cookie,” and would be “honored” to meet him.

Picking up on the if/when theme he used with Andrew Jackson and the Civil War, Trump went on to say, “If I had been around a little earlier you wouldn’t have had World War II. There’s no reason for World War II. People don’t realize, you know, World War II, if you think about it, why? People don’t ask that question, but why was there a World War II? Why could that one not have been worked out? I would have worked it out. After all, Hitler was a smart cookie and I would have been honored to meet him and work out a deal. After all, who makes a better deal than me?”