Article snippet: President Trump gave a series of revealing interviews this weekend as he marked the 100th day of his presidency, making some notable comments about the Civil War and his nonexistent relationship with former President Obama. Trump gave an interview, set to come out in full later today, with reporter Salena Zito for her SiriusXM POTUS show, "Main Street Meets the Beltway." In a tweeted clip of the interview, Trump compares his successful election campaign to Andrew Jackson's — an analogy he has made before. He goes on to suggest that Jackson, who was president from 1829 to 1837 and died in 1845, could have prevented the Civil War, which broke out in 1861. Trump also questions why the U.S. had a civil war. "They said my campaign and is most like, my campaign and win, was most like Andrew Jackson with his campaign. And I said, 'When was Andrew Jackson?' It was 1828. That's a long time ago. That's Andrew Jackson, and he had a very, very mean and nasty campaign, because they said this was the meanest and nastiest [campaign] since," Trump said, going on to call Jackson "a swashbuckler." "I mean, had Andrew Jackson been a little 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. He said, 'There's no reason for this.' People don't realize, you know, the Civil War, you think about it, why? People don't ask that question, but why was ther... Link to the full article to read more
Trump questions why the Civil War could 'not have been worked out'
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