Doris Kearns Goodwin: History Will Decide How Trump Is Remembered - The 11th Hour - MSNBC

[Rhiannon12866]

Responding to Trump saying he's done more for Black Americans than Pres. Lyndon Johnson, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin says history gets to decide how presidents are remembered. Aired on 8/14/2020.

[OnDoutside]

1. No, it's always the victor who determines what we remember as history.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

2. "History Is Written by the Victors" -- Winston Churchill

Many attribute the adage to Winston Churchill, but it turns out he was just rewriting some losers.

If Trump and the Republicans win in November, Fat Donnie's statement that he has been treated worse than Lincoln will be in every child's schoolbook.

[mitch96]

5. Sounds like the history re write in the book 1984 nt

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

6. I was thinking it would be written by Victor Borge, Victor Mature, Victor Hugo,

Vic Damone, Víctor Cruz, Victor French, Victor Fleming, et al.

[mitch96]

7. Victor Victoria? nt

[Harker]

16. If Hugo gets involved

we're in for some fascinating digressions.

[mucifer]

3. and we will become a colony of Russia

[pansypoo53219]

4. so, if HE wins, we will speak russian.....

biden's next commercial.

[JI7]

8. Not so simple, the Confederate sympathizers and daughters of confederacy etc types influenced a lot

of our schools through what went in text books.

So we need to win and beat him but also continue to teach and do things to prevent this shit from happening again.

[usaf-vet]

10. Hopefully it will be a one line entry Federal ADX Colorado ####### serving 25 to life.

His prison handle will be Au45 sh*tter

[yuiyoshida]

11. Speculating....

Do you think Donald Trump will get a Tattoo in Prison? He might have to to stay alive.

[usaf-vet]

12. May become a declared skin head. Once the comb over is gone on day one.

[mwmisses4289]

13. History is

already calling him the worst prez ever. We are living and seeing it in real time.

[Harker]

17. It'll take a dying society

to rehabilitate him.

[Gothmog]

14. History will not be kind to trump

[BarbD]

15. We are living the hellish history now, in real time.

Gloating will come later -- that is if we survive the present.