Trump: 'Robert E. Lee was a great general'

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81. Americans in general should be proud of Grant, who despite much malignity, was not only...

...one of the greatest Generals in US history - maybe the greatest general, far outstripping that awful person Robert E. Lee in skill, in decency, and in patriotism - but also a great President.

It seems that historians are finally coming to the realization that Grant was the second most important President in the 19th century.

Without his Presidency modern America would not have been possible; his judicious use of his prestige, his founding role in the creation of international law in the Virginius crisis, and most importantly - although his vision was frustrated by the racists who hated and maligned him for his actions - for setting his country on the path to dealing with the massive and incredible racism that made slavery possible.

There is a very real reason that when he died, his contemporaries banded together to build what remains, to this day, the country's largest mausoleum/monument.

Grant was a great American and it's unsurprising to find an ignoramus like Trump - a racist - maligning him. Racists have always hated Grant, because he was least racist President in history up to that point, probably including even Lincoln.

Trump has never understood American greatness and works endlessly in fits of mental instability to destroy it. Of course he hates Grant; Grant held the country together, whereas he, like his equally incompetent predecessors, Pierce and Buchanan, is working to tear it apart.