Republican Congressman Tom Cole is not impressed with President Trump\u2019s recent embrace of Andrew Jackson, whose portrait proudly graces the Oval Office.<\/p>\n
After alleging that Jackson was angry over a war which would not occur until 16 years after Jackson\u2019s death, President Trump further opined:<\/p>\n
\u201cI said, \u2018When was Andrew Jackson?\u2019 It was 1828, that\u2019s a long time ago, that was Andrew Jackson.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\u201cI mean, had Andrew Jackson been a little later, you wouldn\u2019t have had the Civil War. \u201cHe 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; he said, \u2018There\u2019s no reason for this.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It was a week when the president also ascribed positive attributes to a ruthless North Korean dictator and a murderous Philippine president, in addition to recent praise for Russian Vlademir Puten and Turkey\u2019s increasingly autocratic ruler Erdogan.<\/p>\n
Yet it was the Andrew Jackson reference that evoked the most visceral response from US Representative Tom Cole. It was not the fractured attempt at history that bothered Cole, but the fact of Donald Trump\u2019s obsession with Andrew Jackson.<\/em><\/p>\n
As a proud Chicasaw, my greatest offense is anything nice said about Andrew Jackson. That’s the one that concerns me the most. My great-grandfather was forcibly removed out of \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Had Cole been able to complete his thought without interruption by “Morning Joe” Scarborough, he undoubtedly would have referred to the treaties in which his ancestors were forced to give up all remaining lands in exchange for lands in present-day Oklahoma.<\/p>\n
The lands were surveyed and quickly sold, with each adult Chickasaw receiving a temporary individual land allotment that was also sold, with all monies placed in a fund to cover the costs of removal.
\n (http:\/\/www.encyclopediaofalabama.org\/article\/h-1487)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nIt is not an accident that Tom Cole represents a district in Oklahoma \u2013 \u00a0the end-point of the infamous Trail of Tears. \u00a0The forced march from the eastern states which his great-grandfather somehow survived was the result of the Indian Removal Act initiated by Jackson, which Cole regards as our own country\u2019s attempt at ethnic cleansing.<\/p>\n
In a\u00a0previous interview with Preservation Action, Rep. Cole explained:<\/p>\n
\nI\u2019m kind of an old historian.\u00a0 I love it.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t understand the past, you can\u2019t begin to understand the present or anticipate the future.\u00a0 There are a lot of different ways to understand the past. …\u00a0In my case, I\u2019m Chickasaw.\u00a0 We have a tribal historian.\u00a0 We take stuff very seriously \u2014 everything from maintenance and language teaching.\u00a0 And we have a hall of fame where people are honored.\u00a0
\n (www.preservationaction.org\/resources\/congress\/interviews\/representative-cole-ok)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nTo President Trump the Jacksonian presidency was “a long time ago.” To the “proud Chickasaw” and member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Jackson’s Indian Removal Program\u00a0is a perpetually fresh\u00a0memory.<\/p>\n
A former college instructor in history and politics, with a B.A. from Grinnell College, an M.A. from Yale University and a Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma, and an enrolled member of the Chickasaw Nation, this Native American Congressman is not impressed with Andrew Jackson nor Donald Trump\u2019s fake history.<\/p>\n
See also: Donald Trump and Andrew Jackson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Republican Congressman Tom Cole is not impressed with President Trump\u2019s recent embrace of Andrew Jackson, whose portrait proudly graces the Oval Office.<\/p>\n
It was not the president’s recent fractured attempt at history that bothered Cole, but the fact of Donald Trump\u2019s obsession with Andrew Jackson, period.<\/em><\/p>\n
To President Trump the Jacksonian presidency was “a long time ago.” But to the “proud Chickasaw” and member of the U.S. House, Jackson’s Indian Removal Program\u00a0is a perpetually fresh\u00a0memory.<\/p>\n Continue reading →<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frontpage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdidntask.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}