Trump Statement Defending Jefferson’s Legacy Flubs Key Detail, Calls Him ‘Principal Writer’ of the Constitution
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Trump Statement Defending Jefferson’s Legacy Flubs Key Detail, Calls Him ‘Principal Writer’ of the Constitution
By Josh FeldmanOct 19th, 2021, 5:23 pm 2-2 minutes 10/19/2021
Former President Donald Trump put out a statement Tuesday defending Thomas Jefferson’s legacy that contained a pretty notable error about his legacy.
New York City officials voted Monday to officially remove the Jefferson Statue from the City Council chamber, spurred on by Black and Latino Council members who raised the issue because the founding father was a slaveholder.
Trump decried the move and said, “Well, it’s finally happened.”
“The late, great Thomas Jefferson, one of our most important Founding Fathers, and a principal writer of the Constitution of the United States, is being ‘evicted’ from the magnificent New York City Council Chamber.”
There’s just one problem with that sentence: Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution.
Jefferson was in France as the Constitutional Convention met. This is not the first time a political figure has made this particular error.
The former president flubbing his declaration came on the heels of his earlier statement reacting to Colin Powell’s death by attacking him and calling him a RINO .
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Trump is a functional idiot when it comes to the history of the United States.
Actually James Madison is generally considered the father of The US Constitution.
... and Thomas Jefferson did not even sign the CotUS (given he was in Paris at the time).
Agreed.
Same goes for John Adams. Influential but overseas and declined to sign.
The Majority of the credit goes to Madison & Hamilton ...
Not just history, but geography and mathematics also.
What a stupid, stupid man.
Stormy who? Not much more to it.
Does not surprise me. An individual who makes up his own reality is not going to spend much time trying to be factually correct.
This does not bother me. Attacking Colin Powell upon his death, however, bothers me. Trump, yet again, illustrates his abysmal character — a genuine asshole.
XX waxes ecstatic over the founding fathers 3 or 4 times a week. I wonder if he cares that his other hero , Donald J Trump , knows nothing about the founding fathers. (Believe me, his ignorance about Jefferson is just the tip of the iceberg).
As far as Powell goes, Colin Powell had the nerve to openly oppose Trump. Trump has been waiting for the opportunity to attack Powell , and what better time than the day the man dies?
My guess is that he does not care. After all, if one does not care that Trump tried to steal the election with a campaign of blatant lies and abuse of his influence as PotUS why would one care that Trump's understanding of history is at a C high-school level?
Not sure Trump knows how to NOT be an asshole.
That is way optimistic
You're being rather generous. My history teacher might have let pass with a D
'Abysmal character' is officially my favorite Trump definitive!
He did it to McCain also which lost him AZ. A draft dodging coward has no right to degrade either of them. When Trump dies what goes around, comes around and it will becoming with the force of a run away locomotive.
This article is a good read on the subject of the original bronze statue of Thomas Jefferson and it's strange benefactor Uriah Levy
a storied (multiple courts marshall ) USNaval officer with modest investment successes outside the service. He also bought Monticello
when it was in bankruptcy for $2,500 in 1836.
Levy commissioned the statue in 1833 and took delivery in 1834 and thereafter spent his life and thereafter his brother's life
trying to get Congress to accept this gift to the nation.
Throughout the statues history, it spent time in the Rotunda, the north lawn of the WH, the west lawn of the WH, back to the Rotunda,
Statuary hall and other resting places.
Not once in this article will anyone suggest "why" Congress could never agree to accept the statue or where to put it.
Could it have been the slavery issue, Sally Hemmings and her 6 Jefferson children, or both?
Uriah Levy's Gift to the Nation - White House Historical Association (whitehousehistory.org)
Note there is no replica statue of Thomas Jefferson in the room.
It has always been between the two bright windows.
There is also very little information about when the replica was acquired or donated to the City.
Butt it wasn't always there.
What else is wrong with the picture should be obvious, lol.
I keep expecting to spot Waldo in there, Lol
All old white guys?
The woman in the balcony (right, 3-4 row, 8 seat in wearing a white outfit with what appears to be Mickey Mouse ears?
Except a few onlookers in the balcony, lol.
Probably those giant pink bows.
Aren't Mickey's ears always black.
I knew my comment was lame but had to take a shot.
Your eyes are still good, none the less.
This doesn’t surprise. I have actually always felt that he really doesn’t know or understand much about our history, government, or law.
Oh what's the big deal???? He just misspoke..... You are all just ready to jump on him for anything. Besides the Constitution and the DOI are the same thing - both based on the Bible.
That depends on whether or not you think a POTUS being a moron is a big deal. Obviously some dont.
I am wondering if they are afraid of admitting they bought the shit this Crap seller sold them. Maybe embarrassed to admit he fleeced them. So they continue supporting him - you know the Emperor has no clothes scenario.
BTW - you did know I was kidding in my first comment, right?
yes
OK, just checking - sometimes things don't come off right.
Hence, Hidin' Joe Biden.