Trump notes Andrew Jackson 'continues to be on the $20 bill'
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Trump notes Andrew Jackson 'continues to be on the $20 bill'
David Knowles 12 hours ago
President Trump at a rally in Johnson City, Tenn., Oct. 1, 2018. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Susan Walsh/AP, AP (2)).Harriet Tubman will have to wait a bit longer.
As President Trump boasted of his administration’s accomplishments at a campaign rally Monday in Johnson City, Tenn., he also touted something he hasn’t done: replace Andrew Jackson’s portrait on the $20 bill with a likeness of Tubman, the African-American icon who ran the Underground Railroad that helped Southern slaves escape to freedom in the North.
After noting that Jackson’s historical connection with Tennessee, Trump seemed to revel in the fact that the former president was still represented on U.S. currency.
“Andrew Jackson, who continues to be on the $20 bill, you know that,” Trump said. “I’m a big Andrew Jackson fan.”
In 2016, before he left office, then President Barack Obama and his Treasury Secretary Jack Lew floated the idea of replacing Jackson with Tubman, a plan that would have made her the first African-American to be represented on U.S. currency.
As he campaigned for president, Trump dismissed the idea to remove Jackson as “political correctness.”
“I would love to leave Andrew Jackson and see if we could maybe come up with another denomination. Maybe we do the $2 bill or do another bill. I don’t like seeing it. Yes, I think it is pure political correctness. Been on the bill for many, many years,” Trump said on the “ Today ” show.
When he took over for Lew, Trump Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin proceeded to slow walk that idea.
“Ultimately we will be looking at this issue,” Mnuchin said in a 2017 interview with CNBC . “It’s not something I’m focused on at the moment.”
Trump has often spoken glowingly of Jackson, and has a portrait of the seventh president in the Oval Office.
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Andrew Jackson had his good points and his bad points. On the whole I guess you could say he was a powerful person of his time and place. He fought to remove Indians from their tribal homelands and displace across the country, causing many deaths and much sorrow among those peoples. Trump, of course, is completely ignorant on the topic, as he is on most topics.
I wouldn't think it would be extremely difficult for a poor man to work his way up to the presidency in the 1830s. I'm not impressed by Jackson. He's just an earlier version of trmp. But Jackson did not have the opportunities that trmp did, I will say that
“Ultimately we will be looking at this issue,” Mnuchin said in a 2017 interview with CNBC . “It’s not something I’m focused on at the moment.”
With all of the other irons in the fire at the present moment, I would think this would be somewhat low on the to do list. What I find a bit more surprising is that Mr. Trump did not suggest His own likeness, perhaps a three dollar bill might be in order in that case.
Oh...the things I could say....
Be nice, I believe I know where you might be going
Looks like I was not quite sub rosa enough with my little quip.
Why do you think I stopped myself?
I would suppose for the same reason I went sub rosa, the suggestion would not have been fair to some of my acquaintances, but they would most likely smile or shudder at the thought.