Do not equate Jefferson & Washington with Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis etc. you Mother-F er....

[mrmpa]

Washington and Jefferson developed and founded a new country..............Those named above & others were traitors and protectors of the Slave economy.

Traitors have no right to have a statue on American land.

[kysrsoze]

1. Exactly. Then again, he's a traitor and a racist himself. So in his mind, they're heroes.

[MFM008]

2. They may have

Been slave owners but not TRAITORS.

[spanone]

3. he's an evil ignorant asshole.

not a very bright bulb

[BigmanPigman]

4. CNN is letting him have it for that one especially.

[gratuitous]

5. Washington and Jefferson were each elected president of the United States

Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee took up arms against the United States. That's why public space in the United States should afforded to Washington and Jefferson, and denied to Davis and Lee. If you must put up monuments or memorials to Davis or Lee, put them on public ground in their country, the Confederate States of America - that is, if you can find any such place, because it doesn't exist on any map I own.

[VOX]

6. Precisely. Davis and Lee led a violent rebellion against the government of the United States.

Each man is a complex historical figure, but "the cause" for which they fought has to be one of the worst in world history. It cannot be separated from the institution of slavery and the wealthy planter class who wanted to maintain their "property" (if one owned at least 20 slaves, he didn't have to fight).

[TexasBushwhacker]

9. Not to mention THEY LOST

Since when do we erect monuments for the losers?

[Bradshaw3]

7. Fucking A

While they both owned slaves, one group tried to build a country while having qualms about the institution and the other tried to tear the country apart to protect the institution.

[sinkingfeeling]

8. But to Trump, Jeff Davis and Lee tried to found their own slave owning

country and those mean old Yankees wouldn't let them. So, they're all equal.