Trump wanted to be a modern-day Andrew Jackson. He wound up more like Andrew Johnson.
By James Hohmann
with Mariana Alfaro
Trump wanted to be a modern-day Andrew Jackson. He wound up more like Andrew Johnson.
On the eve of the inauguration four years ago, Donald Trump likened his “movement” to the one that elected President Andrew Jackson. “There hasn’t been anything like this since Andrew Jackson,” Trump said. “That was a long time ago!”
Allies such as Rudy Giuliani, Steve Bannon and Newt Gingrich frequently made this comparison. The organizer of Trump’s inaugural festivities, Tom Barrack, looked into opening up the White House to the general public for a party that would be modeled on what Jackson hosted when he became the seventh president. “Unfortunately, security concerns are different than they were in 1829,” Barrack said in 2017.
When Trump was sworn in, he hung Old Hickory’s portrait prominently in the Oval Office, made a pilgrimage to his Nashville estate and blocked plans to replace Jackson on the $20 bill with Harriet Tubman.
But Trump will likely be remembered much more in the category of another 19th-century president from Tennessee. Next week, Trump will become the first president to refuse to attend his successor’s inauguration since President Andrew Johnson snubbed Ulysses S. Grant in 1869.
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between Andrew Jackson and Donnie, and how it would have gone. According to historical accounts, Andrew Jackson had a temper and had gotten into fights. Things would have gotten physical very fast.
OUCH!
