Obama tried to take Andrew Jackson off the $20. Now Trump is visiting his grave.

[spanone]

in my hometown....8~(

(CNN)Andrew Jackson may be giving way to Harriet Tubman on the face of the $20 bill, but the seventh president's image is on the ascent in the modern White House.

On his fifth day in office, President Donald Trump elevated a portrait of his distant predecessor to a place in the Oval Office. On Wednesday, Trump flies south to Nashville, Tennessee, where he will visit the Hermitage, Jackson's home, and lay a wreath at his tomb.

From there, Trump is off to the Music City's Municipal Auditorium, where he will host a rally for supporters. It's an appropriate venue if only for its proximity to Jackson, the first president elected on a populist platform, and one known to have enjoyed the close company of his most spirited backers.

Trump's chief strategist and senior counselor, Steve Bannon, has endorsed and promoted the comparison. In a post-election interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the former Breitbart boss compared his new patron to Old Hickory.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/14/politics/donald-trump-andrew-jackson-nashville-visit/index.html

[samnsara]

1. i visited The Hermitage...

beautiful place. now they will have to scrub the orange cheeto slime off it.

[ProudLib72]

2. Should make photocopies of $20 bills

and scatter them around the place. See what happens.

[Docreed2003]

3. Really makes me sick...

While the Hermitage is definitely a beautiful place and it does draw tourists to the area, there's a big difference between recognizing history and honoring a a man like Jackson who was a bigoted scab of a human being responsible for the attempted annhilation of the Cherokee people.

I said in another thread, I'd wager Trump couldn't tell the difference between Andrew Jackson and Andrew Johnson.

As you said, it's upsetting to see this take place in our area. It's especially frustrating on a personal level having to deal with road closures and traffic being nuts this afternoon. (Currently eating in downtown before heading to the Ryman for Carol Burnett).

[Charles Bukowski]

7. Trump couldn't tell you the difference between Andrew Jackson

and Andrew McCarthy. He's an airhead.

This is the Reich's way of thumbing their nose at Harriet Tubman. Nothing more.

[Docreed2003]

10. I'm sure that's part of it...

I also think this Jackson symbolism is being driven by Bannon in a not so subtitle way..."populist scab, makes America great by claiming lands from people viewed as illegals"....I'd bet anything that this is obsession with Jackson is Bannon, not Trump.

[spanone]

9. should be a great show!

[Docreed2003]

11. Looking forward to it!

[Trenzalore]

4. Populist that destroy the economy? nt.

[kelly1mm]

5. I always find it ironic/funny that the founder of the Democratic Party is vilified on DU. nt

[spanone]

8. nothing to do with party at all.... not much funny about it

go ahead and support him...proceed

[juxtaposed]

6. old hickory stick, the dick that went into a foreign country to recapture runaway slaves back in

1919... a piece of shit peckerwood dickhead that executed British subjects.