Trump Just Honored A Genocidal Racist. Twitter’s Response Is Perfect
Today, President Trump paid homage to President Andrew Jackson on his 250th birthday, and he made clear that he considers our former Ethnic-Cleanser-in-Chief a personal hero.
Trump described the slave owner and engineer of the murderous Trail of Tears “the people’s President” and “one of our great Presidents” before laying a wreath at his tomb, repeating “Make America Great Again” several times and thanking Jackson for his “service.”
Trump salutes, lays a wreath at the tomb of Andrew Jackson pic.twitter.com/YqO5Pq3D6C
— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) March 15, 2017
The sight of our most racist President in generations (and most incompetent ever) fawning over a genocidal bigot inspired a flurry of brilliant responses from the Twitterverse:
NAUSEATING BEYOND MEASURE. President Trump today is laying a wreath at the grave of racist Andrew Jackson, the… https://t.co/CTIWayHFHL
— Anne Frank Center (@AnneFrankCenter) March 15, 2017
https://twitter.com/owillis/status/842155674347937792
https://twitter.com/BadponyMedicine/status/842005886260338688
Andrew Jackson was a slave owner, committed genocide, and was a racist sexist asshole. Trump loves him. Enough said
— EJ (@DrEricJenkins) March 15, 2017
Showing more respect to a dead racist than he did for the entirety of Black History Month
— Dari Pokemon Goes to Hell (@_hyperinuyasha) March 15, 2017
Can we stop saying he's "winking" at white supremacists? This is pretty brazen support of a bigot.
— Jeremy James (@JRyanJam) March 15, 2017
Even Congressmember Karen Bass (D-CA) got in on the fun:
“I think Andrew Jackson had a great history” – Donald Trump, clueless, with no regard for US history. https://t.co/VKdzOiNBnD
— Congressmember Bass (@RepKarenBass) March 15, 2017
But the most disturbing tweet of all simply recounted the President’s own words:
As Trump reads his speech about Jackson, he repeatedly remarks "that sounds familiar" — noting parallels to his admin.
— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) March 15, 2017
So if you see this President as a bigoted tyrant, apparently, he agrees with you.
