This is probably worth a poll, but I'm just tossing the question out there

[DFW]

From Raw Story today: (maybe yesterday in the States):

"The president claimed that President Andrew Jackson was very angry about the Civil War and could have prevented it, even though Jackson died 16 years prior."

I see three possibilities here:

1.) Trump has no more knowledge of US history than he does about Chinese calligraphy.

2.) Trump does know US history, but prefers making up his own version to suit his mood

3.) Trump thinks Abraham Lincoln's real name was Andrew Jackson, and won't be persuaded otherwise without a birth certificate.

How far off the deep end does this nut case have to go before someone in his own party is willing to admit publicly that he is getting a little wet?

[JI7]

1. he is an idiot ignorant of US History and most things. He is Repeating what Bannon talks about

the pro andrew jackson crap is all bannon .

[Silver Gaia]

10. This.

Trump is an impressionable idiot. He just repeats what other people around him that he *thinks* are smart say, and thinks/hopes that makes him look smart, too. Problem is, the people around him are also idiots. And evil. Bannon is Wormtongue. Horrible.

[BainsBane]

2. Number 1

The Frederick Douglass episode proved that.

What good is all that money if it doesn't provide a reasonable level of education?

[mdbl]

3. 3.

definitely.

[rug]

4. He has incomplete thoughts. He thinks the way a monkey swings over the treetops.

He will start a thought and, before he concludes it, use it to propel himself to the next thought fragment.

[lindysalsagal]

5. He's never done anything but BS his way through life, and thinks that what everyone does.

The fool has no idea that the other people around him who speak like this have actually read, understood, and digested other people's accounts of the past and can verify their assertions.

In short, he's a complete faker, and thinks that's normal.

[onetexan]

6. yes, he's a con man

a phony, a grifter. It's evident he raised his kids to take after him.

[Useless in FL]

7. I vote for both 1 and 3

He is definitely a con man...

[progressoid]

8. I think until recently he thought Andrew Jackson was a baseball player.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. Ironically

Jackson is listed as the "founder" of the Democratic Party, so given the modern GOP's bizarre embrace of Lincoln, Drumpf's invoking Jackson makes you wonder whether the "original" story he was told to tell about Jackson was the opposite of what he actually said.

[mcar]

11. Considering one of his golf courses has a plaque

memorializing a Civil War battle that didn't happen, I choose 2.

[DFW]

12. Under the circumstances, I guess I should have included one more choice

"All of the above."