Wacky history lessons continue
By Stephen Collinson, CNN
Updated 3:14 PM ET, Mon May 1, 2017
After puzzling comments about 19th Century abolitionist Frederick Douglass and marveling that no one knew Abraham Lincoln was a Republican, President Donald Trump has just unloaded another historical non sequitur ...
... it doesn't seem too much of a stretch to believe that the US President should know, or might benefit from, the insights and stories of the presidencies that unfolded before he became commander-in-chief.
But .. no one voted for Trump because they thought he was professorial ... Trump's voters often said that the reason they flocked to the reality star and real estate magnate is that he was prepared to say things .. they had long yearned for a presidential candidate to say ...
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/01/politics/donald-trump-andrew-jackson-us-history/