News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Fri. June 8, 2018: I keep asking my publisher when will I ever get my Pulitzer for Trump’s America and Obama’s America too? This episode is another example.
BREAKING NEWS in Trump’s America …
in honor of the 500th day of the Trump Presidency
and the fact we have survived it so far anyway!
Let’s hope this one is Fake News from The White House …
…but this early WARNING episode of Trump’s America is only too real.
This photo of Trump in The Oval Office is proof “negative.”
Immediately upon taking over The White House, Trump installed as the most prominent image in the Oval Office other than himself, a very large portrait of President Andrew Jackson, Trump’s Hero President.
It is very unlikely any other President ever had a portrait of their disgraced predecessor Andrew Jackson hanging in The Oval Office.
Hanging a portrait of Andrew Jackson in The Oval Office is just as outrageous, in fact far more so than hanging a portrait of Bill Clinton there. GUARTANTEED NO U.S. President is going to put a portrait of disgraced former President Bill Clinton in The Oval Office and neither should any U.S. President EVER put a portrait of Andrew Jackson in The Oval Office.
It is unlikely any of my many readers are aware of this “breaking” story I am about to tell you so consider this episode a public service to our nation. There are clear hints Trump will not follow through on the decision of the Obama Administration after years of lobbying and finally agreeing ……
… to REMOVE the Slave Master and Native American Destroyer, so called President Andrew Jackson, from the Twenty Dollar Bill and FINALLY put a Great American Woman on the face of American currency.
Again, this credit must go to our #1 media partner The New York Times, and credit for me for finding this developing story buried deep in the paper’s edition of The Times Wednesday, where it went largely unnoticed.
And by the way, New York Times does NOT work for me and Trump’s America for free, we pay dearly for their services. Thank God I am a loyal subscriber to both the online and print editions.
First to remind you of the Back Story – using a media term here.
It was becoming increasingly more obvious with each passing year here in the 21st century that there are NO women at all on American paper currency. A movement developed in recent years known as Women on the 20. It developed tremendous interest.
FINALLY, President Obama got on board to no surprise in a MIS-guided way. No surprise at all, Obama announced he would dump not Jackson, but the most popular American Founder of the 21st century …
ALEXANDER HAMILTON from the face of the Ten Dollar Bill, in favor of a woman. So that necessitated another Movement to Wake Up Barack Obama. WRONG Barack. HOW do you possibly dump Hamilton and leave the Biggest Loser on our currency Andrew Jackson on the 20?
It took a while, but President Obama finally woke up to reality. Then Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced Hamilton would stay and Jackson would go, replaced by a wonderful choice, A Great American – Harriet Tubman.
And so the story had a happy ending until the NIGHTMARE Donald Trump. Now this decision in favor of Harriet Tubman is very much in doubt, although no change to the current plan has yet been made. YET.
Obviously, The Times story is based on subtle but real hints. Like the fact that the message about the new Harriet Tubman $20 has been REMOVED from the Treasury Dept. Website and a Treasury spokesperson says NO decision has been made about a new $20. But most of all, we have Trump’s love affair for Andrew Jackson, who apparently reminds him of himself and of course that other factor, Trump’s HATRED for anything Obama.
Tubman would probably have more chance of replacing Jackson if she was North Korean Dictator Kim’s idea. Right now he means a lot more!
Former President Andrew Jackson has NO place in the 21st century. Jackson is even a far worse example than Donald Trump of what an American President should NOT be like in the 21st century. Way worse than Trump.
Allow me to interrupt myself for a SPECIAL message …
IRONY OF IRONIES …. Andrew Jackson is Trump’s FAVORITE President.
REPEAT … Andrew Jackson is Trump’s FAVORITE President.
More irony … Andrew Jackson is considered the Godfather of today’s Democratic Party. Or was, until reality about Jackson took center stage.
Which brings us to the REAL story of this week’s episode “perfectly.”
If anyone needs reminding, Andrew Jackson was an American Huckster who sold himself to the American people in the early 1800s as a man of the People who would drain the SWAMP in Washington, DC by measures such as destroying the magnificent financial system and economic engine Alexander Hamilton had created to make America the greatest nation on Earth.
Andrew Jackson’s path to the Presidency was his exploits in the Battle of New Orleans in the so-called War of 1812, a battle which took place after a peace agreement had already been reached. No problem for Major General Andrew Jackson of the Tennessee militia, who got to continue his slaughter of Native Americans in this battle, which he began in earlier an “lesser” one sided wars against Native Tribes.
Emerging from the Battle of New Orleans as a media hero, Jackson began a march toward the Presidency, spouting populist campaign themes to appeal to the downtrodden, which made him a Big Deal. By the way, Andrew Jackson was also a Big Fan of Aaron Burr, to put Jackson in even more negative perspective.
Andrew Jackson also had another notable feature that made him very appealing to many and ignored by other supporters. Andrew Jackson was arguably the largest slave “owner” of his generation at his Tennessee oasis named ‘The Hermitage,’ which was enabled by hundreds of slaves. Jackson Hermitage can be called his Monticello, like that of Thomas Jefferson “fame.”
Slave “owner” is an interesting term. Time for an important aside.
How can one human being “own” another human being? OF COURSE THEY CANNOT! What they could do, and still do in some places on Earth, is abduct and imprison for life and torture anyway they choose, men, women and children.
That was and is President Andrew Jackson. But Jackson did not stop there; he had a special “thing” for Native Americans. They were his great “passion,” destroying Native Americans in every way possible as President. It has a very descriptive name – GENOCIDE.
By today’s standards, and that is the way to judge Andrew Jackson, he would be called a War Criminal and if alive today, would easily be convicted at The Hague and sentenced to life in prison with no parole.
That obviously is not going to happen. What can and must happen is that Andrew Jackson MUST be taken OFF the $20 bill and take OUT of The Oval Office.
Which brings us right back to current President Donald Trump.
Not only did Trump make Andrew Jackson the most prominent figure in “his” Oval Office; one of Trump’s early trips as President last year was to go to Jackson’s treasured slave home, The Hermitage, right to Jackson’s grave there, to pay homage to his Favorite President.
Here is how noted historian and Jackson biographer J. M Opal of McGill University puts it: “Trump is the first President to so openly admire and point to Jackson as a model, and to borrow so clearly and explicitly from the language of Jacksonian ‘democracy’.”
ENCORE … “Trump is the first President to so openly admire and point to Jackson as a model.”
And get this nonsense. Of course Trump circulates Fake News about Andrew Jackson; Very Fake News that Trump “believes,” including that had Jackson been President later, he would have prevented the Civil War.
Maybe that the way President Trump has brought “peace” to the NFL.
Besides being Very Fake News, it is a BIZARRE contention by President Donald Trump that SLAVE Master Andrew Jackson would have prevented the Civil War and brought peace instead.
The ONLY way Jackson could have or would have prevented the Civil War would have been to convince the North that Slavery was a good thing and should always exist in the United States.
Enough said. Prospects look very dim for Harriet Tubman or any woman being featured on the face of the $20 bill or any American currency with Donald Trump as President.
After all, he is a lover of Demagogues and one himself.
The good news is, get rid of Trump in 2020 and get rid of Jackson too!
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(This entire series is dedicated in honor of the late Liu Xiaobo)
