Trump's odd remarks on the Civil War

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(05-02-2017, 03:33 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: Apparently Bannon is the Jackson fan, so he's probably feeding a lot of it to Trump. Based on his work as a documentary film maker, his visions seem in line with what Trump is spewing out. 

The only other tweet Trump made about Jackson prior to Bannon being in his ear was once that referenced how Van Buren being elected after Jackson was the last time a Democrat was elected after a Democrat held office for two terms. Of course, that is intellectually dishonest because it would have us not look at the election of Truman in 1948 after 4 elections won by FDR by qualifying it as needing 2 terms. 

Seems very plausible.  In fact, I would wonder even if the "fact" in the initial tweet was something which was brought to his attention by someone else, as Trump doesn't give any impression of being a historian neither of U.S. history, nor the world.  This wouldn't be a talking point, but for the fact that Trump's tweets seem to be made with an air of intellectual athority on the subject matter, which naturally invite scrutiny.  The interesting thing about the tweet you mentioned is that, even if the qualification of two terms was implied, then it weakens his argument even more, as one could argue that FDR himself was elected as a democrat after a two term democrat held office (of course FDR would basically be following himself here), followed by Truman, so you could say that a Democrat was elected twice after another one held office for two terms. However, to me this seems more trivia than anything necessarily relevant, except for the fact that Trump himself brought it up.